The Strauss Bascule Bridge Company, Inc., engineers and designers of trunnion, bascule and direct lift bridges. (1920)
Strauss Bascule Bridge Company · Strauss Bascule Bridge Company · leaf 24
e floor on the fixed approach span and on thebascule leaf, is located in front of the main trun-nions so that in opening the bridge no part ofthe floor revolves downward. The leaf itself,therefore, forms a positive barrier against traffic,thus preventing accidents similar to those occur-ring at the… … underneath counterweight type of Strauss Trun-nion Bascule Bridge. The method of operationis quite similar to that of the bridge illustratedin Fig. 4, described above, the dead load of the leafbeing balanced about the main trunnion, but themethod of providing for the support of live load onthe-…
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