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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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wheels, and with a sen-sitive weight device for regulating the tension of the sawblade, which latter is so essential to a band resaw. Thevertical boring machine, Fig. 7, is provided with threespindles that have lateral motion, across the table, instantly drums, so that in case of accident the latter may be easilyrepairetl. The wood working department is excellent in its generalappointments and reflects credit on the company and on thetool makers. The dry kiln is just west of the generating stationand is reached by a side track from the C, H. & D., so thatlumber may be unloaded directly into it. On the east side of Mitchell avenue are the car house andwarehouse, the armature shop, the machine shop and theblacksmith shop. This last is 90 x 107 ft. and is equippedwith 12 heavy cast iron forges by the Buffalo Forge Com-pany, arranged with the draft and exhaust pipes under-ground. In this shop is also a 1,250-pound steam hammer.The punch, shears and drill press are operated by a 20 h-p
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7 9 WOOn WORKING MACHINERY AT CINCINNATI STREET RAILWAY SHOPS. controlled by levers and with vertical adjustment by meansof hand levers for controlling the depth of boring. Thetable has power driven rolls and heavy material is easilyhandled. Fig. S shows the double circular saw used forpattern shop purposes where there is a rapid change fromone class of work to another. The many adjustments ofthis tool make it admirable for the purpose. Perhaps themost important tool in the wood shop is the triple drumSander, Fig. 9, used for polishing. This is a heavily builtand very efficient machine. The finest veneers may besanded without cutting through them. The feeding rolls,pressure bars, plates in the table and the drums themselvesall admit of the finest adjustment from both ends independ-ently, and the machine is provided with oscillating deviceson the drums for automatically varying the position of therolls for various thicknesses of stock, and the whole of theupper works ma) be instantly r

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