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Popular Science Monthly 



Over ten thousand pounds can be lifted by this inexpensive little truck. With it heavy 

 loads can be wheeled about a factory more easily than with the costly traveling crane 



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Main bearings m head 



Oiler 



Hook 



Rollei- bearings 



What One Lifting Truck Will Do 

 in Factory Hauling 



A TRUCK which will lift all but the 

 largest castings upon its back, and 

 then carry its load away with but a 

 single man to operate it, has been intro- 

 duced into the factories. Its usefulness 

 is almost unlimited. 



Medium-sized machines in the foundry 

 and shop can now be carried about, not 

 with a ten thousand dollar traveling 

 crane, but with a 

 little eighty-five 

 dollar hand truck. 

 Small castings, such 

 as the little heater 

 shown in the photo- 

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moved with rollers 

 and crowbars, 

 which require sev- 

 eral workmen and 

 precious time. 



Each truck is 

 provided with a 

 hundred separate 

 platforms. These 

 are distributed 

 about the shop. 



When a product has gone through one 

 operation, it is loaded directly upon the 

 platform, on which it is carried from one 

 place to another. 



The truck sides are parallelograms. 

 When they are in their collapsed position, 

 the truck is readily slid under the loaded 

 platforms. Then using the truck handle 

 as a lever, the workman attaches a hook 

 upon the stub end of the handle and 

 raises up the sides until they form an 

 oblong. The sides are automatically 

 locked in this position, and the raised load 

 may be wheeled wherever desired. By 

 pressing a pedal on the head of the ma- 

 chine, the sides are tripped. The load 

 is gently lowered by a hydraulic check. 



The stump speaker's pulpit before which the 

 crowds may gather without blocking traffic 

 or breaking any restrictive city ordinance 



The Soap-Box Orators of Los Angeles 

 Have Concrete Pulpits 



THE authorities 

 of Los Ange- 

 les, California, have 

 endeavored to 

 beautify their city 

 ana to Keep the 

 streets free from 

 congestion. The 

 most novel device 

 for the purpose is 

 a cement pulpit. 

 These ornamental 

 pulpits have been 

 placed at specified 

 locations for the free 

 use of street pVeach- 

 ers and stump 

 speakers in general. 



