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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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put uponthe market by the Frank Ridlon Co., of Boston, by means ofwhich it is announced bearings can be rebabbitted. ready to gnto the rxles without further boring or machine work of any kind. The device consists of an arbor mounted upon a stand. Theiron shell of the bearing to be poured is placed over the arbor. minutes to lest an armature, and the water will not have time tobecome hot. Yours truly. A. F. RKXROTH.Harrisliurg (Pa.) Traction Co. NEW CAR HOUSE AT UTICA. Contracts were awarded on October 21st for tlic construction ofa new car house for the Utica & Mohawk Valley Street RailroadCo. to be located in one corner of Utica Park. The new buildingis expected to be completed early in February. It is to be 225 x 80ft., of fireproof construction, with brick side walls, fireproof doorsand steel roof. In front there will be a series of combination swingand slide doors. The interior will be divided into equal compart-ments, each 40 ft. wide, and each compartinent will contain three
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FIG. l-OPEN. FIG. 3-SHELl,. FIG. 2-SHEI,L IN PLACE. with the shoulder at the bottom, ami is hrld in place by a swing-ing arm, pivoted at the back of the stand. Tliis arm swingsaround and is held by a catch during the act of pouring. As soonas the casting is hard, the arm is pulled forward, this motionalso autoiuatically throwing the box free from the arbor, and theoperation is completed. .Arbors and machines are made for allthe regular styles of motor bearings, each pattern turning outboxes ready to run. Skilled labor is not necessary to operate themachine, and any man or boy who understands the handling ofbabbitt can pour the boxes as fast as the metal will cool. Thearbors arc so made that the oil-ways are formed when the metalis cast. Fig. .1 shows the device before the unbabbitted shell isput in. Fig. 2 shows the shell in place and the gate on top readyto receive the molten metal. It is named the Weld babbittingdevice, and is sold by the Ridlon company under letters patent. TESTING

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