The Westinghouse Friction Draft Gear
År: 1900
Forlag: Barlett & Company, The Orr Press
Sted: New York
Sider: 28
UDK: 625.201 Jern
Built by The Westinghouse Air Brake Co., Pittsburgh, Pensylvania, U.S.A.
Søgning i bogen
Den bedste måde at søge i bogen er ved at downloade PDF'en og søge i den.
Derved får du fremhævet ordene visuelt direkte på billedet af siden.
Digitaliseret bog
Bogens tekst er maskinlæst, så der kan være en del fejl og mangler.
; Westinghouse Friction Draft Gear
Operation of Apparatus on a 45-car Coke Train in Daily
Use for Four Years
N1" EARLY all of the important experiments in the development of the Friction Draft Gear
have been made upon this train, which is drawn by two engines and has been in daily
service for four years. Since the substitution of yokes for tail bolts there have been no
breakages of the Friction Draft Gear, notwithstanding the factzthat it has made double the mile-
age of other trains fitted with ordinary draft gear in similar service. In the operation of this
train between the coke regions and the point of delivery^it is necessary to weigh each car, and
this is accomplished in the following manner, viz : The engine is detached from the train and
run from 100 to 200 feet beyond the weigh scale. The cars are then separately detached, weighed
17