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which close the door securely against
the door packing. Provision is made
for padlocking the handle. Two stand-
ard ventilators are provided in each
door, one at the top and one at the
• bottom. These ventilators have re-
movable screens to facilitate cleaning.
\ special design of ventilator having
a removable screen, but of a reversible
type, which permits closing the ven-
tilator openings, 1s available, if
specified.
Standard interior equipment 1s
wood lining and shelves with a re-
movable wood floor for batteries to
rest on. A metal floor plate is avail-
able. A large -size door permits in-
stallation of a maximum number of
batteries, relays, etc .. and makes their
accessibility easy. These cases are
interchangeable \\> ith designs shown Code-following relay
Case with shelving on A.A.R. Signal Section Drawings
1626B. 1627B and 1628B. in the swing, a contact operated Ly a
gether. The top is made of cast-iron cam on the vertical shaft, open s the
with steel inserts cast in place so that coil circuit and allows the pendulum
a continuous welded steel joint may be to rotate in the opposite direction. At
made with the side walls. All other
exposed joints are similarly welded. Coded Track Control a certain point in the clockwise swing,
the same contact again closes the coil
A GRo"UP of improved devices for use circuit, causing the pendulum to be
in coded track circuits has been an- driven counterclockwise.
nounced by the General Railway Sig- The 75, 120, or 180 codes a re ob-
nal Company. They include: tained by using pendulums of differ-
( l) Code transmitters of the oscil- ing weights. One transmitter is re-
lating type, to produce 75-, 120-, and quired per code. Lower on the vertical
180-rate codes. shaft, two other cams drive four in-
dependent sets of contacts thus mak-
(2) Code-following relay. ing it possible to supply the same code
( 3) Master Transformer. to a maximum of four tracks with the
( 4) Decoder units for decoding one transmitter. The transmitter is
120- and 180-rate code.s. designed for continuous operation for
several years 'vithout attention . A
plug-coupler is standard equipment,
and A.A.R. binding posts are option-
al. The device is adaptable for shelf
or wall mountings.
The code-followin~ relay, as its
New welded cases
The welded structure, there fore, pro-
vides a solid wall with no joints or
rivets to serve as a place for rust to
attack.
The top casting is designed for
mounting standard signal or cable Code transmitter
posts. It is tapped to provide for wire
conduit fittings or may be plugged if The oscillating type code-transmit-
conduits are not required. When ter is a d.-e. device operating on 10
posts are not used, the top is sealed volts. A rotary pendulum, supported
with a weatherproof cap and gasket. on a vertical shaft, is set into motion
Commercial requirements may make when energy is applied to the coil on
it desirable to cast the top with no the top of the transmitter. The mag-
opening or mounting provision for netism, resulting from the energized
a post. coil, attracts the armature on the pen-
Doors are of reinforced channel dulum, causing it _to rotate counter-
construction and equipped with one clockwise. This rotation is resisted by
handle to operate t\vo inside latches a large clock spring. At a given point Master transformer
october, 1940 RAILWAY SIGNALING 593
11 ame implies, follows the code that is quired. A Type-U transformer, used t~e lower end of the spring, so de-
being transmitted and, through its for this purpose, is designed to operate signed as to provide the required code
own contacts, applies the code to de- o.n th~ low code frequencies. ~1odifica speed.
coding apparatus. The relay is fur- tions m the windings adapt this trans- The Dl\I code transmitter de-
nished with one or two dependent former to the different decodino- cir- signed to provide for long. trouble-
front-back contacts and with 'vindings cuits. Th~ voltag~ usually imp1~essed free life with a minimum of mamte-
to fit the application. The magnetic on the pnmary wmding is low, about nance. For example, the 180-
10 volts. The output is matched to the 120-code transmitter operates without
load imposed. the use of bearings. The 75-code
The decoder unit receives low fre- transmitter has only a knife-edge
quency a.-c. from the master trans- bearing which is designed o give
former, filters and rectifies it to en- long tronble-free operation Th1s
ergize a standard d.-e. signal relay. bearing will tolerate slight wea ·ith-
In the decoder unit there are a con- out affecting· the transmitte opera-
denser, a transformer, and a rectify- tion.
ing unit. The capacitance of the con- The D~I code transmitter ha.
denser and the reactance of the trans- a maximum capacity of 4F -4 con-
former are matched to pass alternating tacts. The contacts may be of either
current of the code rate for which it silver-platinum for low-voltage cir-
is designed, and no other. Thus the cuits, or of tungsten 1 if high voltag
120 decoder unit filters only the 120- circuits are to be used. The pov·er
code, the 180 decoder unit, the 180- requirements for this code transmitter
code. The rectifying unit is built-in are much less than of previous model .
so that standard d.-e. relays can be 0.25 watts being requi or it
operated by the decoder units. operation
In two-block three-indication sig- As the Drvi code transmitter has no
naling, where the 75-code is decoded hearings requiring lubrication 1t is
by relays and not by a decoder, the capable of satisfactory operation over
Decoding unit with cover removed 180-decoder is the only unit used. wider ranges of temperature than has
When a fourth indication is required, been possible heretofore and as a
structure of the relay includes a the 120-decoder unit must be used to consequence, the code speed of the
permanent magnet, so arranged that decode the required 120-code. The transmitter also remains constant over
direct current of only one polarity will decoder unit is arranged for shelf- or an extremely wide temperature range.
operate the relay. This is to preclude wall-mounting. Other features which help keep main-
any operation by energy of opposite tenance costs low are that there are
polarity. Such energy would only tend practically no '\rearing parts m the
to drive the armature tighter against transmitter; the contact erosion is re-
its back stop.
. The mass of the armature is held
New Code Transmitter duced to a minimun as the contacts
are of large diameter, thu extendmg
to a mm1mum without sacrificing THE Union Switch & Signal Com- the life of the transmitter.
pany, Swissvale, Pa., announces the The coil vv·ithin the transmitter is
introduction of its new Style-DM snubbed by means of a copper-oxide
code transmitter for its coded wavside rectifier. The coil is easily removable
signal system. This transmitte; has and can be changed out without affect-
been designed to make use of a simple ing the contacts or the magnetic pole
pendulum arrangement which is tuned pieces. There is practically no spark-
for the three code speeds at which the ing on the driving contacts and no
transmitter is to be operated. This appreciable wear. The contacts them-
tuning is accomplished by means of a selves are readily accessible, and can
pendulum which is made up of a be easily replaced in connection with
spring arrangement with weights at regular maintenance work. The trans-
Front and
Decoding unit side views of
a style-DM
strength, so that the relay can easily code trans-
follow the code frequencies in general mitter for
use. The bearings are rugged in order way s i d e sig-
to stand up in continuous operation. A nal system
plug-coupler is standard equipment;
A.A.R. binding posts optional.
The master transformer is used to
transform the coded impulses from
the code-following relay into low-
. frequency alternating current, which
is feel to one or two decoders, as re-
