1908 - A New Device

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Me thinks Mr. Broski had too many brewskis.

Gordon Hamilton

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> Roanoke Times - January 18, 1908

>

> A NEW DEVICE

>

> Mr. H. W. Broski Secures Patent on New Car Coupler

>

>   Friends of Mr. H. W. Broski, of Marion, Va., who is well-known here, 

> will be interested to learn that Mr. Broski has secured a patent on a 

> device for coupling steel rails together. The new device has many 

> advantages which the old-fashioned fish-plate and bolts lack. With the 

> bolts and nuts of an old-fashioned fish-plate it has always been necessary 

> to have track walkers who did nothing but walk the track and see that the 

> bolts and nuts did not work loose. This, taken with the original expense 

> of the bolt and nut plan, which has never been very satisfactory, has made 

> the cost of keeping the rails together, a large item of expense to a big 

> railroad system. Mr. Broski's patent, he thinks, will be much cheaper. In 

> the first-place there is but one bolt and one nut. In addition the bolt 

> and nut are safe-guarded by a contrivance which it is thought will relieve 

> the wear on the bolt and nut. The fish-plate, which will be attached to 

> the side of the rail to bind them, has been made so that it has six loops, 

> three of which will fit into each rail and extend though to the opposite 

> side, where they will be bound fast to that side of the rail by a long 

> tapering bolt which will extend through the six loops and will have an 

> appliance on the end which will permit of securing the bolt so that it 

> cannot possibly slip. As an additional precaution a thread will be cut on 

> the end of the bolt so that a nut can be placed there. Mr. Broski's son, 

> C. C. Broski, of Bluefield, W. Va., has spoken of it to several railroad 

> men and they all thought it would be a success. Should it proved so it 

> will answer a long-felt want which the railroad companies have been trying 

> to fill for a number of years. The speed and weight of modern trains wear 

> out bolts and nuts very rapidly and there is always the danger of a loose 

> nut, which might be the cause of a serious wreck.

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