PRATT'S PATENT COMPENSATING FISH-JOINT, MADE BY VERREE & MITCHELL, No. 939 N. Delaware Avenue, Philadelphia, This Joint is made of two heavy bars of wrought iron, or cast steel, eighteen inches in length, or any other desired length, fitted to the side of the Rail and secured by four three-quarter inch bolts, with four malleable cast-iron cups and washers, and a gum ring two inches in diameter and half an inch thick in each cup. The value of gum to absorb jarring motion is well known, but when the pressure is as great as that required to secure the ends of Railroad Ralls, some device or method by which to prevent the gum from being forced out from under the washer, when subjected to increased pressure, is indispensable. The Patent Compensating Fish-Joint secures that effect and enables Railroad managers to apply all the force and pressure desired. Where this Joint is securely fastened by screwing the nut upon the washer and gum in the cups with a lever three feet in length, it makes a perfectly tight joint, and thus secures what Railroad managers have long desired-a continuous Rail, with sufficient elasticity in the gum to relieve from and compensate for the sudden jar, and at the same time allow for expansion and contraction by heat or cold. We claim that this Joint absorbs the vibratory shock given by the wheels in passing over the ends of Rails, thereby preventing fracture; and we have yet to hear of the first Rail having broken with our Joint on it. We confidently claim for Pratt's Patent Compensating Fish-Joint: That it makes the best and cheapest form of fastening, requiring no plate or chair underneath the foot of Rail. That it is safe and secure, and prevents the numerous accidents resulting from loose or broken Rails. 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HARRISBURG CAR MANUFACTURING CO., Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, MANUFACTURE Passenger, Mail, Baggage, Box, Gondola, Coal, and all other kinds of RAILROAD CARS, RAILROAD CAR WHEELS AND CASTINGS, RAILROAD FORGINGS. W. D. HILDRUP, Superintendent. WILLIAM CALDER, President. 55 L. G. TILLOTSON & CO., Manufacturers, Importers and Dealers in Railway and Telegraph Machinery and Supplies OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, No. 8 DEY STREET, NEW YORK. Manufacturers of all kinds of Metallic Car Trimmings, Importers of Plushes and Reps, Dealers in Cotton Duck Webbing, Seat Springs, Rope and Cocoa Matting, And all kinds of Car Upholstery, Head Linings SOLE AGENTS FOR and Fixtures. Self Lubricating Steam Engine Packing, Mansfield Elastic Frog Co.'s Frogs, Head-blocks and Switch Stands; Buffalo Steam Gauge Co.'s Headlights and Steam Gauges; Thos. 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We do not present this as a new thing; for, having been mechanically perfected fourteen months ago, the Light has been on trial on over forty first-class Roads, and in every instance has given entire and unbounded satisfaction, proving its superiority over every light heretofore made, in simplicity of construction, durability in every part, economy in use and brilliancy of light. This Gas Head Light gives DOUBLE the LIGHT of the best kerosene Head Light ever made. Print can be read One Thousand Feet in front of the Light. The expense of running is less than one-half that of a Kerosene Light; there is no smoke, no wick to trim, no oil to wipe out, and the tank once being filled, no further attention is required beyond simply lighting and extinguishing the gas flame. Full drections accompany each Light, and any mechanic can remove, repair, and as readily replace all the parts. Old Kerosene Head Lights altered to Gas at a small cost. The Case and Reflector are all that is neces. sary to send for alteration. Confident in the great superiority of the Gas Head Light, we offer to send one to any Railroad on trial for thirty days, and if not satisfactory it may be returned at our expense. RADLEY & MCALLISTER MANUF. CO., 21 Cortlandt Street, New York. MANUFACTORY, 119 and 201 Water Street, New York. GAS CAR LIGHT, Perfectly safe, reliable, taking very little space, unequaled for brilliancy of light, warranted all that we recommend. We append a list of a few of the leading Roads which are using them, and to these we refer for information: N. Y. Central and Hudson River Railroad, Erie Railroad, Boston and Albany Railroad, Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore RR., C. T. Ham, M.M., Albany, N. Y. |