Show STEERING OF PACKARD CAR Factor of Easy 1 Control Worked Out by Company When It is necessary ary to saw see see out of or a narrow parking space th the driver of or an nn automobile appreciates I a mechanism which permits him to I turn the steering wheel with Ith ith the least possible exertion Ordinarily thel he knows nothing of th the study anG anc effort that has gone fone Into making p I this exertion on the tho part so slight 1 He lie does docs not know either th that t tast sat ast sum sums of money and the labor tI I of oC many scientists engineers and skilled workmen have base made ble POSSIble ble the th combining With this ease ense of turning a II factor of oC safety in the th steering mechanism of or his car which guards him every second he heIS heis his IS driving Should a In any pars pan of oC the steering mechanism of an automobIle traveling at high hish specs spec the driver obvIously would be pow pow- powerless powerless erless to avert an accident Men working oer over machines of oC many kinds and intricate mechanism Ocr work benches before betor the doors of white hot roaring furnaces I or In front of great steam barn hammers bammen men menI I blows with W the force rore of many 0 miles away from the man drIving the automobile prevent present accidents for himE him E Cry part of the steering mach mach- mach aniam of a Packard car is i made by bythe bytho the Packard company in Its big Detroit plant Officers of or the corn com comI company I pany declare that the men wn have charge of or the work feel all iii I actual personal for forthe forthe I the lives lIes of oC those who later Inter will without gh ing the matter a thought their safety to of or men whom they have hayo never seen Steels which have base gone con through a long lone process of oC forging and heat hat treating and which have the thc power to resist hundreds of thousands of pounds of pressure arc are used In th the I steering mechanism A gear making machine takes one or of these of steel and at one operation makes a double thread This piece fastened at the end o of othe the column and known as the worm rear gear sends a big biff heavy bronze piece up on one side while a twin bronze piece Is going down on the other Inside the gear box at the end of the column These The bronze pieces actuate t the hI lever that carries the th power applied b bv the hands to the steering wheel to the steering knuckle and thence to the a heels hels mechanism the gears are set t down tightly and then worked in bv by ham hanu after the gear pear box has been fIlled with grease crease hacking away awny a nut at the top of or the box loosens the gear and gives elves play in the wheel This nut Is loosened until there Is 15 exactly one Inch of play In the alice At this point the th mechanism then must work cork ork freely enough so o that the wheel heel can caD be turned with Yo Ith the pressure of one Linger finger The completed steering gear then goes goe Into a II machine where the wheel i heel beel Is swung from Crom on one ond side to the other as fa ra a ras it wIll BO go and kept running back and forth until every cery part is working smooth smooth- smoothly Iv ly Much of this operation Is ii r- r r to work In a II washer or of brake lining at the top of the col- col limit which prevents any rattle iri n the tir column during dunne the th life lite of the car carn 1 n I |