. The Street railway journal . regulating the action of the motor controllers underthe control of the master controller. Electric Brake: Frank E. Case, Schenectady. N. filed Dec. 17. 1898. In a system where the motors are usedas generators to supply current for operating brake-shoes anauxiliary source of current is used to increase the current sup-plied to the shoes as the current generated by the motors de-creases with the decrease of .momentum. Fare Register Operating Device; Buren B. City, Mo. App. filed Oct. 28. 1902. Consists of a revolublerod mounted in


. The Street railway journal . regulating the action of the motor controllers underthe control of the master controller. Electric Brake: Frank E. Case, Schenectady. N. filed Dec. 17. 1898. In a system where the motors are usedas generators to supply current for operating brake-shoes anauxiliary source of current is used to increase the current sup-plied to the shoes as the current generated by the motors de-creases with the decrease of .momentum. Fare Register Operating Device; Buren B. City, Mo. App. filed Oct. 28. 1902. Consists of a revolublerod mounted in brackets adjacent to the register, which is so constructed and arranged as to obviate the necessity of runningthe ordinary operating cord at various angles at points adjacentto the register and which permits the use of an operating cordwhich extends in a straight line from one end of the car to theother. 736,897. Trolley Catch; Morris C. White and Otho C. Duryea,Los Angeles, Cal. App. filed July 5, 1902. Consists of a spring. PATENT NO. 736,897 drum, pawl and ratchet attached to the trolley pole, adapted to betripped by an electromagnet in the trolley circuit, when the wheelleaves the wire, tc lock the co-d and prevent the trolley polefrom rising. 736,914. Method of Operating Electric Brakes; Frank E. Case,Schenectady, N. Y. App. filed Dec. 17, 1898. This method iscarried out in connection with the apparatus described in patentNo. 736,817. UNITED STATES PATENTS ISSUED AUG. 25, 1903 Convertible Car; Henry Covert, Waterford, N. filed June 19, 1903. The car is provided with side openings,the lower portions of which are adapted to be closed by horizon-tally movable doors and the upper portions by vertically movablepanels. Trolley Base; Albert D. Crossley, South Norwalk,Conn. App. filed March 4. 1903. Relates to an arrangement ofcontact plates upon the pole base. • Brake; George E. Moffett, Jarilla, Territory of NewMexico. App. filed Jan. 31, 190


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