Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1917 — NOW USE AUTOMATIC DEVICE [ARTICLE]

NOW USE AUTOMATIC DEVICE

Air and Car Coupler Simplifies Matter of Coupling and Uncoupling Cars—Prevents Accidents. The Pittsburgh railroads are making use of g new form of automatic air and car coupler which not only simplifies the mutter of coupling and uncoupling ears, but obviates the necessity of a man standing between the cars In order to perform this operation. In order to insure the com-, fort of the riders It is necessary that the coupling between street cars should be very rigid, and it has been heretofore found difficult to obtain this rigidity In a piece of mechanism designed to stand the hard usage which couplers ure subjected to. The present device Is so carefully machined as to insure a perfectly rigid connection when coupled together, this being made possible by means of suitable joints behind the heads to provide the necessary vertical Mnd lateral movement In spite of the neatness of the fit of these parts the couplers will properly come together and lock, though they be as much as three .inches out of alignment, and-they are sufficiently flexible ts operate where the car levels may vary as much as ,-en Inches.—Scientific American. ,