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Identifier: streetrailwayj251905newy (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.
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x lid a de-cided tendency to press harder against the lower part of the box.The ribs on the inside of the lid are not decidedly new, as theyhave been used in other types of boxes, both for steam and electricrailway service, but the writer considers that these ribs are verynecessary, as the oil from the outer ends of the journal is thrownup against the lid, and by having this shelf or rib, as shown on theinside of the lid, the oil runs down and is thrown off into the box,instead of running out at the front end of the box, as it certainlywould do if the inside of the lid was a plane surface. With thisoil box, we are using standard makes of lubricating oil and packingwith decidedly good results on both city and interurban cars. Wehave also put this type of box on to some of our snow plows, andthe results have been very satisfactory, so satisfactory, in fact, thatwe have not had a single hot-box where this form of box and dustguard was used. The drawings give details for journals, 3% ins.
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in the use of a flexible dust guard which is made up of layers offlexible material sewed firmly together, and the arrangement issuch that the dust guard can be inserted from the front end ofthe box without removing the box from the journal, thus avoidingunnecessary expense and delay attendant upon the use of many ofthe various types of dust guards commonly used in electric railwaywork, most of which require that the box shall be removed whenapplying the guard. Another advantage of this dust guard is that,as it is made of flexible material, it conforms itself to tlie back partof the journal and acts to form an absorbent ring, which effectuallyprevents any oil from going out through the back part of the box,and is much more satisfactory than the harder substances commonlyused for dust guards. We have had cars running in our electricrailway service for over a year withthis type of dust guard, andupon personal inspection the writer has found that the back end ofthe box outside of this dus

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