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...Stepless, Wide Range Speed Control
of Direct Coupled Draft Fans
Whin TyP* 2)7 Liquid Rheostat! control the tfteed of holler font driven hj wound rotor motort you get:
Immediate responie to varying draft conditions. % Smooth, continuous, ttapfon speed control. Equal sensitivity over the entire operating range.
HOW' IT WORKS. Motor speed is vsried by increasing and decreasing resistance. This is accomplished by raising and lowering electrodes and the level of current-carrying electrolyte. A pilot device transmits draft condition to t lifting mechanism which controls electrode position and electrolyte level. A full resistance range is provided in only to inches of electrode travel. The bask principle of liquid rheostat operation plus the utilization of spe* ciiUy engineered electrodes gives a linear relationship between motor speed and electrode travel over the complete rheostat range.
Since the rheostat is not mechanically connected to the motor it may be located to suit the most convenient plant layout. For com plete details, contact your Allis-Chalmers representative or write for leaflet 14S7544.
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(ram 1930 up to date. The 1930 to 1936
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ing. The 50-yesr June issue, 1934, is Intact.
The 1936, 1937, 1938 eod 1939 issues hove
all sdverilibf removed. From 1940 on, the
- Jimitry end December Issues ere intact,
being aud lor the outside binders of the
lee issues which have most of the advertis
ing removed. Condensed as they ere, the
volumes are 5 ft wide.
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...lines and bylines
{NOIN1ERINO runs in the Sims blood--
"JB" who tells about hit Grand Haven
diesel plant (pp 7S-77) has an 83-yr-
old engineer father and a son who U
electrieal engineer for Kalamazoo Vege
table Parchment Co. Betting io the
family is that grandson JB III, now one
year old, will also grow up in the engi
neering mold.
Our JB was born and educated in Tex
as (Texas A&M) but worked for lorge
engineering firms in all comers of the
U.S. Now settled firmly In Michigan, he has made the Grand Haven municipal
J B Slim
plant widely known for efficient operation and for the economical use
of heavy residual fuel oils.
Always interested in'aviation, JB helped the editor of hit hometown
paper build a Bleriot monoplane, flew World y** 1 "Jennyi" ond Mill
fly--both as a hobby and as a means of getting around the otate,
where he does consulting work in power engineering.
MIOH-PftBlSURI PUMPS are the current
concern of Haas Gartratno, as you ean
' tell 'from his article on pp 71-74. Now
chief engineer of DeLevtl't centrifugal
pump and compressor departments, he
has held important design posts with
that company since 1924.
Born and educated in Switzerland
(Winterthur College, OS In ME, 1923), Gartman began his engineering career
as a compressor calculator for Brown
Boveri at Baden. Hans makes a hobby of lawn bowling
snd enjoys boating and fishing with his
Ham Gertmann
children (a boy ond o girl) during summer week ends ot their oettago
at Beaeh Haven Pork, N. J. A member of oumerous engineering socie
ties (Navsl Architecu ond Marine Engineers, Naval Engineers), be has
served os chairman of the Trenton subsection of ASME (1946-47) ond
president ol the Engineers Gub of Trenton (1949-50).
PSYCHOiOOIST with on engineering outlook if Dr B J Covner, author of the
article on "human engineering" begin ning on p 84. Heiling from Rochester,
N. Y., Dr Covner holds degrees Irom Colgate .(AB) University of Pennsyl
vania (MA) and Ohio State (PhD). His experience includes a wide variety
of-industrial psychological activities.
During World War H he was civilian consultant at precommlaeioning-training
engineering school where he built a
mock-up boiler and engioe room to aid
B J Covner
training of naval engineering personnel.
Hfs recent work has taken on an additional dimension--how to design
engineering equipment -for case, aecarocy and safety In operation,
what Is coming to be colled human engineering. In this field, be and
his associates have worked with utilities, Industrial companies and In
surance organizations. Dr Covner first mode acquaintance with electrical equipment sa.e
rodie "ham"--was licensed it ago 15 end operated W8AWD until
World War II. Now likes to write, fish, listen to classical music.
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