Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 179, 10 May 1919 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1919.

PENNSYLVANIA II. G.L.' ATTACKED BY TRUCK ;. ; l PHILADELPHIA, Pa May 3. "Within a few days, according to announcement by the postofflce officials here, 50 to 60 motor trucks will be running to this city from nearby rural points, carrying fresh farm produce to the consumer direct from farms. The

trucks already are being operated on six routes. Returned soldiers are being used as drivers. Eggs, poultry and vegetables form the bulk of the merchandise thus transported. The territory covered by the trucks ranges from eastern Maryland to central Pennsylvania. - All the consumer has to do Is to order what he wants from a farmer on the list posted and the postofflce will do the rest. The person ordering the goods pays the postage. The charges are 5 cents for the first pound and 1 cent for each additional pound. Several large army trucks have been turned over to the local postofflce to be used for carrying the larger shipments. When select fresh eggs were selling in Philadelphia groceries at 50 to 60 cents a dozen, a motor truck, the first in the local experiment, arrived from the Lancaster farming region it M 1 .L.M... IK

witu esK lur iiuuocuuiuci a . i cents. The first stop was at the Commercial museum. The truck carried

85 crates of eggs, weighing 4,200 pounds. The truck left Lancaster at 6:30 the previous day and arrived at 4:30 p. m. The eggs actually cost 32 cents, with 3 cents for postage. Fifteen separate operations and several days are thus saved by motor truck transportation of farm produce. Highways Transport Links Farms With Market The people of our land were never able .to deal as comprehensively with the problem of highways development and highways transport as today. For now. as a result of war's challenge and

the demands upon all producers for

their utmost endeavor, we know where neoDle are in greatest need of addit

ional transportation facilities. And from experience gained before and

during the war, we have seen the man

ner in which highways transportation

can be harnessed most effectively to

the service of our people.

"Take the great problem ol rural highways transportation," cites W. O. Rutherford, vice president of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber company, "and consider a concrete and definite need that presented itself in the state of Utah during the war. In the vicinity of Loa, Wayne coanty. back seventyfiles from the railroad, several carloads of fat hogs were available for . - 1 V . V n a vis n AO TtQ Cf

shipping them to the nearest rail point. The solution was found by improving the highway to carry motor transpart, the hogs were moved rapidly to rail shipping point and an additional food supply therefor made available. And the solution of this problem had the effect of moving the

whole back country, a vast area in useli, up closer to the railroads and the markets of the world. While the exodus of the hogs symbolized the creation of new wealth in Wayne county, the transport service was able to return from the shipping point to Loa with the wares of our great industries, thus providing a larger market. Hence highways transports linked up the forms with desired markets. It also spelled opportunity to the great body of loyal workers in America in that it provided for a larger field to be supplied by the Indespensable products of their hands.

The Automobile Simplified By FREDERICK C. GUERRLICH, M. E. Make This Your Automobile Correspondence School AN Intimate talk on the working units of the automobile discussed In such a way that the layman can easily understand them If in reading these articles, as they appear In the Palladium each Saturday, there is anything not clear to you. aak Mr. Guerllch about it. An answer will be published on the completion of .the articles on the section of the automobile under discussion. Copyrighted. HIT. By Frdrlck G. Gurrilch.

LESSON NO 7. . Distributer System. From previous lessons we saw that, in order to have the current Jump across the spark plug points, we had to have a very high voltage, and wo learned how the induction coll transformed the low voltage into high voltage. You will recall that the transformation of the current from low to high voltage occurred the moment the core was magnetized or demagnetized, and that the core was magnetized or demagnetized by sending a current of electricity through the primary coil, or by stopping the flow of this current respectively. The faster the core is magnetized or demagnetized, the more intense will be the secondary current. As the flow of the current can be more quickly stopped and thus the core more quickly demagnetized, practically all ignition systems must have some device for stopping or interrpting the flow of the primary circuit. In the Distributer System this device is called the Interrupter.

are assembled. The current will start at the battery, then go through the switch, then through the coil about the wire Z. the Interrupter points A and a, the arm N. and back to the battery by way of the wire shown as a dotted line. Every time the above circuit is brok

en by the interrupter points (A) and

(a) separating, there will be a shot of high voltage In the secondary.

which will start on the coil and go through the wire V. This current

must go to the spark plugs, and, In a four-cylinder engine, to four plugs at different times, and In a certain order, that Is, the Firing Order. Here is a difficulty to be overcome, as we have but one wire, and four plugs to get the

current at different times. How can

we overcome it? The Distributor.

We can overcome this difficulty by

having a revolving switch, which will

switch or distribute the current to the plugs in the required firing order. Such a switch or distributer, as it is termed, is shown inlhe drawing. This Is a' drum, the shell. H, of

P. O. GETS ARMY TRUCK

The postofflce department struck a gold mine. The war department has at last presented It with 1,200 army trucks of various types and sizes for use in rural mail delivery. The routes to be coveted by these vehicles have not yet been decided upon, but undoubtedly will be announced in the near future by the department.

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of good conducting material, which will come in contact with the metal pieces above referred to they are called segments) one after the othor. , If tlje main .secondary wire V be connected to the center of the Rotor F, as this rotates, it will send the current to the plugs In the order in which the wires are connected to the

segments. In the drawing segment a is connectefl to the wire, of Plug 1,

b to the wire of Plug 2. c to Plug 4 and

d to Plug 3. Thus the current will go to the plugs In this order and the cylinders will be fired in this order. The distributer is usually placed im

mediately above the interrupter, the

interrupter cam and the distributer rotor being on the same shaft, but insulated one from the other. They are

so set. that the rotor is In contact

with one of the segments every time

one of the hammers of the interrupter hits the piece C of the arm N, or, in other words, every time the pri

mary current is interrupted.. To again trace the secondary cur

rent, we find now that It starts at the coil, then goes to the distributer where it Is distributed to the plugs, in the firing order, and must now return to the coil so as to complete

the circuit. Instead of running a wire back from each plug to the coll, the plugs are screwed into the cylinder

and the current is allowed to return through the metal of the engine to a single wire which comes from the coil and is somewhere connected to the engine, or, as we saw in a previous lesson, through the ground. In most systems the Primary cur

rent is also allowed to return through the ground. Thus, in the drawing, one wire from the battery is grounded, and the arm Nis grounded, bo that the current goes from N to the battery wire through the ground. There will, however, be no wire from P, as shown, the pin P being of metal, thus, unless insulated, it is grounded. Let us again review this system. If we want to start the engine, we close the switch, thus an electric current will flow from the battery through the switch, the coil, the interrupter and then through the ground back to the battery. If we now crank the engine, we will also make the shaft K, on which both the interrupter cam E and Distributer Roter F are fastened, with the result that one of the hammers

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B will hit the point C and thus inter

rupt the primary circuit, and there will be a shot of high voltage current

through the secondary wire V to the Roter F and out through that segment

G with which the rotor is in contact; this current will then go through the wire fastened to It to the plug, where Is will jump across the points, giving

a spark as it does bo.

The engine and distributer shaft are coupled together, or timed. In

which the spark comes, will have the piston up. Just ready to Btart on the power Btroke. Thus the engine will now run, and shaft K revolve, so that each time a piston is up and ready

for the spark, the primary will be interrupted and the Roter F so set as to

send the current to the correct cylin der.

In the drawing a condenser is

shown, the purpose of which Is to prevent the burning out of the Interrupter, or, as they are often known.

platinum points. Tail will be ex

plained later.,,, ,

It Is unpatriotic to hammer prices

down, by refusing to buy American

producU.

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S. A. E. PLANS MEETING

The summer meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers will be held at Ottawa Beach on the east shore of (Lake Michigan, six miles from Holland. The society has secured the exdelusive use of the Ottawa Beach hotel and cottages for June 23-27. Accommodations will approximate 1,000 members and guests.

The Interrupter. In the sketch herewith, an interrupter is shown. The cam "E" is fastened to a shaft, which is made to revolve, the usual practice being to drive it from the cam shaft of the engine. This cam E, you will notice, has on it 4 offsets or hammers (B), (there will be six on a six-cylinder engine), which hammers, when the cam is revolving, will strike the point C on the Arm N, thus pushing this arm downward. You will also notice that the Arm N can swing on the pin P, and that the other end has a point (A), which rests against the point (a), it being pressed against by the spring D. Thus as the cam E revolves, each time a hammer hits against c, the arm N is driven downward and the points (A) and (a) are separated. Now, if a current of electricity were sent through the wire Z, it would enter at the terminal L, pass through the bracket M, through the points (a) and (A), the arm N, to P and out through the wire Y. When, however, the hammers on E hit the point C; thus separating the points A and a, this circuit will be broken, and the current interrupted.

We are now ready to study what is known as the Distributer System of Ignition, a system, if we exclude the Ford cars, which was furnished on about 80 per cent of the cars built in the last few years. This system has two circuits, a primary and secondary. Let us see what units there must be in the primary circuit, and then the units there will haVe to be in the secondary. -In the primary we must first have a source of current, which usually is a storage battery. As the engine is stopped by stopping the spark, we must have a switch which is near the driver's seat so that he can disconnect the battery at will. We must have a coil of wire around the core, and we must have an interrupter. The'drawing shows how these units

which is made of an insulating material, but which has inserted in it at regular intervals metal pieces, hav

ing binding posts for a wire. Revolv

ing inside the drum is a Rotor, made

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