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"Reconstruction'
Automatic Tube-Drawing Machines
Perforated, Nickel-Plated Steel Ribbon is here Spirally Wound into Positive Tubes. The Joints are Doubled Seamed and Swedged.
It is not out of place to say a word or two about the storage battery plant that was saved from the flames. Practically all the machine tools in these factories
Ribbon Plating Machines
The Perforated Steel Tube and Pocket Ribbon runs over rollers and is continuously Nickel Plated as it passes through the Baths.
are built to order from special designs of Mr. Edison and their destruction would have meant the loss of expensive apparatus representing years of development and from 3 to 5 "generations" on each tool. A little over a year ago, when battery shipments were two or three months behind, large orders for machinery were placed so that much more than half of the equipment is practically brand new. Its loss would have held up a number of large
Perforating Steel Ribbon for Positive Tubes and Negative Pockets — Nine Distinct Operations and Three Inspections before Ribbon is ready for the Tube and Pocket Tools.
orders which are now going through, including equipment for a single fleet of 100 delivery wagons (6600 cells), an order for 1100 railway car lighting cells, one for 660 cells for mining locomotives and also 3000 cells for emergency lighting and door operation of Brooklyn Rapid Transit Elevated R. R. cars. During 1914 some twenty-two railroads have
Positive Tube Loading Department
Capacity 25 miles of Tubes per day. Each tube has 315 layers of Nickel Hydrate and 315 layers of Nickel Flake.
adopted the Edison Alkaline Storage Battery for train lighting or signaling and an interesting aftermath of the fire was the receipt the next morning of exclusive contracts from three railroads for their battery equipment.