Electric railway gazette (1895) (14758056781)

Identifier: electricrailwayg03newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway gazette
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: New York : (W.J. Johnston Co.)
Contributing Library: MIT Libraries
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amount of road, and purchase franchises, etcIn short, money is no object; and while th<^Worcester Steel Works are ready to put out alneeded material (for road-bed, etc.), the financial authorities have loosened their purse strings February, i8 THE STREET RAILWAY GAZETTE. 2^ The Tanner Street Car Wheel. The accompanying engraving, taken from aconstruction drawing, represents an improve-ment in street car wheels for which letters patent as desirable. Those interested in street railwayswill examine the invention critically, and willnot fail to observe the excellence of the mechan-ism introduced, whereby the wheel is retained ina constant position, in reference to the axle upon K-rM Reference being made to the engraving whichshows a half side elevation, a vertical sectionalview, and views of details, it will been seen thatthe wheel is loose upon the axle, consequentlythe axle is stationary and the wheel revolves
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The Tanner Street Car Wheel were granted to Samuel W. Tanner, of Brooklyn,N. Y., March 8th, 1887. The object of the im-provement is one that will be generally conceded which it revolves, and also the means whereby thefriction of the wheel upon the axle is reducedto its minimum. loosely. The principal parts consist of (i) thewheel itself, with an elongated hub, which islonger than as ordinarily constructed, and may 1^ 28 THE STREET RAILWAY GAZETTE. February i8 be lengthened still more or shortened if desired.This hub is chambered or recessed to receive anumber of hardened steel friction rollers (shownin the details and placed in the vertical section),and has also a recess on the inner end for a collarof aluminum anti-friction metal, which is shrunkupon the shaft; outside this collar provision is its end fitted in a cast-iron box and threaded fora wrought iron nut, or the box itself may bethreaded and serve the purpose of a nut. (3)The friction rollers of hardened steel are placedin a m