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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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stay there.It is, in addition, important that the snow cleaningapparatus should be independent of the car movement inils action-. This latter principle has been made use of in are of ^-inch steel, and are riveted to endless sprocketchains running on rollers. The front convejor drops thesnow on to a side conveyor, which is thirty inches long,and throws the snow out at the side of the car, where itis taken care of by the wings. The side wings have afifteen foot sweep, and are two in number; the smallerone in .the front to start heavy banks and to keep snowaway from the plow, and a larger one behind it to domost of the sweeping. The front wing is a simple5/^-inch steel plate 4x6 feet, rigidly pivoted to the snowplow frame, and backed up by a channel iron beam eightfeet long. The rear wing is made of two 60-pound steelT-rails, fifteen feet long, bolted at the top and bottom of a4xi5-foot plate of J^-inch steel. It is a floating wing,having no rigid connection to the plow frame, and being
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THE MINNEAPOLIS MOGLL RLFATRIC PLOW sweepers having the brushes independently driven, andwhich give excellent results. The MinneapoHs plow,however, by the use of convejors instead of brushes, dis-poses of a much larger quantity of snow in a more satis-factory way. The power required is, of course, enor-mous, but on a large system this is of only secondaryimportance, the main point being to do the work withoutdelay. To remove the snow from the track, the schemeadopted on this plow is to raise the snow in front of theplow by means of conveyors. It is then dropped on ashort cross conveyor, which throws it to one side. Heavywings push back the snow coming from the conveyor,and in addition clear the roadway at the side. The frontconveyor is nine feet long, and placed at an angle offorty-five degrees. The blades of the conveyor are sixty-six in number, having dimensions 24x6 inches. They elevated and carried bj ajib crane. The crane is madeof 8-inch channel iron, its height and length being

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