. The street railway review . Moore, master mechanicof the Chicago City Railway. A large stock of armaturecoils is kept in stock at the repair shop, and girls are em-ployed to tape the coils by hand. V>y the use of this smallmachine, between two and three times as much work canbe accomplished. The tape is held in the spool shown mthe upper part of the cut, and any desired tension put uponit by the thumb screw shown. The spool is fastened to agear which rotates it. The hollow center in the gear is pro-vided for the coil to be wound. To get the coil into thecenter a slot is cut out of the gea
. The street railway review . Moore, master mechanicof the Chicago City Railway. A large stock of armaturecoils is kept in stock at the repair shop, and girls are em-ployed to tape the coils by hand. V>y the use of this smallmachine, between two and three times as much work canbe accomplished. The tape is held in the spool shown mthe upper part of the cut, and any desired tension put uponit by the thumb screw shown. The spool is fastened to agear which rotates it. The hollow center in the gear is pro-vided for the coil to be wound. To get the coil into thecenter a slot is cut out of the gear and the ring about whichit revolves. The gear meshes with another one of the samesize, which is on the driving spindle. The pulley shown inthe elevation is driven by a round belt and drives the gearspindle through friction disks. The friction disk is workedby a lever one, end of which is curved in two planes, asshown, so that when moved up it presses the belt pulleyagainst the leather disk. There is a treadle attachment so. TAPE WINDER—CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY. that the lever can be thrown on and off by the foot of theoperator. The coil is placed in the hollow center, the end of thetape is given a turn around the wires, and a pressure on thetreadle starts the spool revolving, winding the tape aroundthe wires of tiic c(/il. The operator simply moves the coilalong fast eiii»ugh to give it the proper covering of special cotton tape will be provided as it is believedthat cotton will prove just as durable and as good an in-sulator as linen. The cotton tape will not be treated withany insulating compound, and when wound will only havesticky substance at the end. Each spool will have justenough tape to cover one coil, several spools being pro-vided for the machine. The Nassau Electric Railroad Company recently per-formed a new class of service. A section of the new parkat Dycher Meadows needed filling in, and some buildingproperty on 44th street between 5th and 6th avenues
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