. The railroad and engineering journal . Fig. 23. be the same distance from the back of the tool to the point asthe one removed, or it will vary the radius. Instead of thetable A having square holes, as shown in cut, they are nowbuilt with X-head slots, making it more convenient for lioltingthe work on. The tools represented and described above are manufac-tured by Messrs. Pedrick & .\yer at their works in Phil-adelphia. Railroad Rail-Spring. The accompanying illustrations show a rail-spring, the objectof which is to interpose an elastic medium between the rail andthe tie, and thus diminish th
. The railroad and engineering journal . Fig. 23. be the same distance from the back of the tool to the point asthe one removed, or it will vary the radius. Instead of thetable A having square holes, as shown in cut, they are nowbuilt with X-head slots, making it more convenient for lioltingthe work on. The tools represented and described above are manufac-tured by Messrs. Pedrick & .\yer at their works in Phil-adelphia. Railroad Rail-Spring. The accompanying illustrations show a rail-spring, the objectof which is to interpose an elastic medium between the rail andthe tie, and thus diminish the pounding and noise caused bythe passage of trains. This device is described as follows : n the drawings, 10 represents a metallic plate that is pre-erably made of steel and shaped to elliptical form, the ends of The jaws Z>.j, on the chucks V, slide in and out on theto lake cylinders of diflerent diameters. They are held byshort screws in slotted holes, as will be seen by the section atthe right of fig. 23. Fig. 24 shows a cyli
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