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Dreyfus' Patent Locomotive Cups.
LOCOMOTIVE CUPS.
Design Patented March SO, 1869.
Are shell-cased, made very ornamental, constantly exposing the oil to view, and
are generally considered the best ever naed.
Capacity. ]
No. 28—Shell Case, for small connections, . \ oz.
" 36— " Eccentrics, . . . 1 "
" 42— " Connecting Rods, . li "
" 4»— " Gnides with Steel Spindle
and Spring, ' IJ "
No. 43—Shell Case, JKegulators with Valve
and Set Screw, to feed as required, . \\ "
The rod Cups will run from fifteen to eighteen hundred miles with one filling,
and the Guide Cups seven hundred miles with one filling.
[For Locomotive Guides, without Kegulating Valve.]
Permit the spindle to extend below the Guide far enough to allow the Cross-
Head to strike it, and round the end so that the Cross-Head will strike it in the
centre.
AMBTEK.
liin.
2 "
2 "
After properly adjusting the Guide Spindle (as above directed), have them
taken out and hardened to a degree that will prevent them from wearing.