New York [etc.] Simmons-Boardman Pub. Co. [etc.] · leaf 327
ead. It is a fact that the locking mechanism ofsome of the M. C. B. couplers is occasionally ren-dered useless by this cause. When a car carrying anAmes or an ordinary link (especially If the latter beonly 4 inches in width), is driven back forcibly againstan M. (. P,. draw liar, the link will… … ings. The right hand fork as one faces the draw barlies in the opening in the draw head so that a link,entering this opening, strikes against it. The lefthand side of this right hand fork, when the knuckleis closed, lies against a rib or sto|i cast in the drawhead. Thus, the right hand fork of the…
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