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Popular Scioicc Monflily 



The Paddleless Canoe in Action. The Oper- 

 ator Propels Himself Leisurely Along with 

 the Aid of Either His Hands or His Feet, 

 or Both Combined When Making Speed 



Below, the Neat and Compact Propelling 

 Device Which Weighs About Forty Pounds. 

 The Upright Lever Operates the Rudder. 

 The Principle Is That of a Velocipede 



A Paddleless Canoe Propelled by 

 Feet and Hands 



WHEN George D. Sicklesteel, of 

 Oregon, goes for a sail with his 

 little canoe he forgets all about the 

 rising cost of gasoline and engine trouble 

 and propels himself up and down 

 stream with a hand and foot-operated 

 boat of his own construction. 



The hand levers are connected with a 

 crank which carries a gear, and this 

 meshes with another gear which drives 

 the propeller shaft. 



Pedal cranks are connected with the 

 same crank which is operated by hand 

 levers, so that the boat can be driven by 

 foot as well as by hand-power. In this 

 way the operator can use either one hand 

 or two hands, or both feet alone, or 

 both hands and feet together. The 

 apparatus weighs about forty pounds. 



A Machine That Cracks Oil-Bearing 

 Nuts Without Crushing Them 



THE bursting and cracking of 

 cocoanuts, cohune nuts anc 

 nuts of similar nature to enable tlir 

 oil-bearing kernels to be extracted 

 with the least possible waste has 

 l<jng been a tetiious hand process. 

 A machine has been invented by 

 an ICnglisli firni, which is said to 

 crack the nuts more c|uickly and 

 with less waste than any appar- 

 atus heretofore devised. The 

 pressure is ajiplied to tlie nuts 

 lengthwise, and each nut is 



placed in a position between the bursting 

 jaws, hollowed out so as to safely hold 

 the "nose" or rounded part, and is there 

 cracked. As fast as one is cracked 

 another is lifted in position, so that the 

 operation is continuous. The operator 

 simply turns the crank, and the nuts are 

 cracked as fast as they are fed to the 

 bursting jaws. 



Below the machine is a ho]jper contain- 

 ing the supply of nuts. A belt carrying 

 lifting forks enters this hopper and lifts 

 the nuts one by one to the bursting jaws. 

 One revolution of the driving shaft, 

 operated by the crank, crushes a nut, 

 which falls in a receptacle. At the same 

 time another nut is brouglit in iiosition, is 

 cracked, and falls in the 

 same receptacle. The 

 machine does not ^ ^ / 



injure the ker- ^^_'* WnA^ ^ 

 nels or waste ^f"^ ■*-*<r*^ i» ^ 



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The Cranks Operate 

 the Bursting Jaws 

 Which Crack the 

 Nuts and Lift Un- 

 cracked Ones Into Po 

 sition. The Operation 

 Is Continuous and the 

 Nuts Can Be Cracked 

 as Fast as Desired 



