Identifier: pacificservicema1627paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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Gas-fired locomotive spring furnace at the West-ern Pacific shops in Sacramento. Absolute con-trol of temperature and doubled production Gas is used to expand locomotive tires in setting andremoving them from locomotive drive wheels Francisco factory making bed springs. Thesprings are dipped in the japan and afterhanging over a drainboard for a short timeare carried on an overhead trolley systeminto one of several ovens which are twenty-two feet long. Here high-pressure gas burn-ers that are automatically controlled by athermostat quickly heat the oven andsprings to the desired temperature. After apredetermined interval the springs are runout of the far end of the oven and aftercooling are ready for shipment. The baking of cores in foundries in gasovens is another use of gas which is quitegeneral. One foundry has ovens equippedwith temperature control devices so exces-sive temperatures are impossible. As thisfoundry does much of the core baking atnight the ovens were also equipped wit

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