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Identifier: belltelephonemag09amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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ffs briefly, let usnext see to what this power is applied. One of the most im-portant and broadly used power devices in the public utilityfield is the winch. Various types of winches have been developed for the differ-ent kinds of service, i.e., oil field work, safe moving, publicutility work, etc. In our studies of the truck winch problemfrom the telephone viewpoint, the desired goal which has beenkept in mind, is to provide a unit which will make a single linepull of as much as 10,000 pounds when desired, be light inweight, easy to mount, low in cost, and which will be practi-cally non-reversible except when driven backward by thetruck engine. The winches which have been developed for this work aremade of steel, and a unit which will accommodate 1,000 feetof 7/16-inch rope weighs about 500 pounds. A satisfactory winch mounting is provided by castings boltedor riveted to the sides of the truck chassis frame. The winchrests on these castings and is secured to them by means of four 104
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1. Propeller Shaft Power Take-Off. 2. Transmission Power Take-Off. 3. Engine Power Take-Off. 4. Winch Inst.^lled with Propeller Shaft Power Take-Off. 5. Winch Mounting. 6. Winch Worm and Wheel. 7. Light Winch Inst.^llation with Idler Brake.

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