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 58
brakes are used under ordinary conditionsand the emergencv brakes, as the name implies,are Used for extraordinary conditions, as forinstance, any failure of the service brake in caseof an unusual unbalanced load on the bridgesuch as snow or a high wind. The service brakes on electrically… … The. Strauss Bascule Bridge Company of operation, it can be kept out of action at thewill of the operator. The air operated emergency brake acts en-tirelj independently of the operating machinery and is best adapted for use on our larger andheavier bridges. Fig. 32 illustrates this type ofemergency…
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