Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 680
CO Co *U !-W frame B B act on the brake-beams, keeping them and the blocks off thewheels. The side elevation and the plan show the arrangement of leversthrough which the power is transmitted from the brake-spindlcs to the blocks. Car-axles are of wrought iron or steel, and their shape is… … section and end view (half in section) of a standard box adopted by the sameassociation, which is the type commonly used in America. The bearing b, ofa hard composition, rests on the top of the journal. A little play is left be-tween the collars to allow of some lateral motion to the axle. A wedge…
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