Railroad Gazette/Volume 38/Number 5/Trade Catalogues
TRADE CATALOGUES.
Graphite Paint.—The International Acheson Graphite Company, Niagara Falls, N. Y., sends an interesting booklet descriptive of Acheson graphite paint. The graphite used in this paint is not a natural mineral graphite, but it is artificially produced in electric furnaces. It is claimed that paint containing this graphite is absolutely unaffected by any acids or alkalies, gases of combustion, sulphurous vapors or other destructive elements. Illustrations of buildings, bridges, etc., in which the steel work was coated with paint containing Acheson graphite are shown. These include the post-office building, Chicago; the Metropolitan Life Insurance building, New York; the plant of the National Tube Co., Lorain, Ohio, and the Williamsburg bridge, New York.
Chloride Accumulators.—The Electric Storage Battery Co., Philadelphia, Pa., sends an illustrated catalogue of its chloride accumulators. Illustrations of the different types of storage batteries as well as tables which give their sizes and capacities are shown. Types “E C S” and “E L S” are especially designed for car lighting. The voltage of the cells of all capacities is slightly above two volts on open circuit, and during discharge at the 8 hr. rate the voltage varies from that point at the beginning to 1.75 volts at the end.
Metal Water Towers, Etc.—The Chicago Bridge & Iron Works, Chicago, Ill., sends a catalogue descriptive of its elevated steel water tanks. These tanks are made with hemispherical bottoms, and illustrations showing tanks ranging in capacity from 50,000 to 200,000 gallons, placed on steel towers, are shown. This company also makes steel smoke stacks; illustrations of these stacks and a table which gives the proper sizes of chimneys to care for different boiler ratings is given. Other interesting data and tables of interest to designers of water works plants are also given.
Injectors.—The Hayden & Derby Manufacturing Company, New York, sends a miniature edition of its large catalogue. It is a convenient size for pocket use and contains descriptions and illustrations of injectors, ejectors and jet apparatus made by the above company. It also contains a number of valuable suggestions as to the proper type and size of injector to use for different conditions of work.
Roofing.—The Standard Paint Company, New York, sends its January issue of “The Exchange.” It contains a number of half-tone illustrations showing shops, buildings, etc., which are covered with “ruberoid roofing.” It also gives illustrations showing the application of “ruberoid roofing” to both the inside and outside of lumber dry-kilns.