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Identifier: streetrailwayjo211903newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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were supported by toggle links, but these were found to bevery uncertain in the making of contact as the shoe mounted anincline. For a moment the shoe would jump up, away from therail, and as current would have to come through this shoe or notat all, the tendency would be to draw an arc or to lose aswitch, as the case might be. Again, it was found necessaryto cause the shoe to bear heavily on the rail itself to preventarcing. The least irregularity in the rail would cause the shoeto rise, and this making and breaking of contact caused trouble.Neither could this method of support adapt itself to allow a freemovement of the shank of the shoes through the slots of thecovered work at curves. In place of this form of support a cast-iron Ijracket was at-tached to the bumper block of the motor and braced to theframe by an adjustable brace. A double, extra heavy wroughtiron pipe was used as the central sliding rod, with threads oneach end. This engaged with a box form of iron casting, and the
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March 14, 1903.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 401 two are held together by lock nuts. Adjusting nuts are suppliedat the opposite end of the rod. An insulating block, made ofthree pieces of maple, boiled in paraffine, shellacked and glued provision has been made for eight distinct movements of theshoe. The up and down movement are for the travel of theshoe in its lowest position ofif the third rail to the highest ele-

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  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:419
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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