. The Street railway journal . ve got to have a fairly large conduit. Now, we come to a very peculiar system. Here the inventor hasattempted to bring the conductor, not in the conduit, not on the sur-face, but he has gone to the other extreme and says, let me bring itabove the surface, and I will have it clear and sure. So he constructsa slot parallel to the rail, along the roadbed, and places ad jacent to thatslot a number of switch boxes, having long arms, the contact points atthe end of which run across the slot. On the car is a plow which projectsdown into the slot, and a similar plow at t
. The Street railway journal . ve got to have a fairly large conduit. Now, we come to a very peculiar system. Here the inventor hasattempted to bring the conductor, not in the conduit, not on the sur-face, but he has gone to the other extreme and says, let me bring itabove the surface, and I will have it clear and sure. So he constructsa slot parallel to the rail, along the roadbed, and places ad jacent to thatslot a number of switch boxes, having long arms, the contact points atthe end of which run across the slot. On the car is a plow which projectsdown into the slot, and a similar plow at the other end, and aconnection or contact bar between the two plows. The plow goesdown in the slot, catches one of the arms and raises it up. While thelever is raised in connection with the bar, current is supplied from thatparticular switch, and then after the car has passed by the raised con-tact, why, the contact simply drops back again, but another lever isalways raised before the last is dropped. This would be very good if.
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