Mechanical movements, powers and devices; a treatise describing mechanical movements and devices used in constructive and operative machinery and the mechanical arts, being practically a mechanical dictionary, commencing with a rudimentary description of the early known mechanical powers and detailing the various motions, appliances and inventions used in the mechanical arts to the present time, including a chapter on straight line movements, by Gardner D. Hiscox (1914)
Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York, The Norman W. Henley publishing co. · leaf 395
1591. FRICTION BRAKE forstreet-railway cars. A leather washerbetween the flange of the brake spooland axle flange is the friction sur-face. The spool is held by a shortwind of the chain either way. Thediagonally cut sleeve is elongated bya pull on the connecting rods, whichcompresses the friction… … 1592. CAR TRUCKfor street railways. Sub-frame and compoundsystem of springs.
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