588 



Popular Science Monthly 



The slotted rod attached 

 to the tie bar moves with 

 the steering wheel, causing 

 the forked bar with the 

 lamp to turn likewise 



Automobile Lights which 

 Turn with the Roads 



A STATIONARY lamp is of 

 no value in lighting up the road when 

 turning a corner or curve; but a search- 

 light mounted on top of the motor hood 

 may be turned directly on the path to the 

 .right or left as the steering wheel is turned, 

 the movement of the lamp being accom- 

 plished by a train of gears between the 

 steering wheel column and the lamp sup- 

 port. The latter consists of a forked rod 

 which extends down through the motor 

 hood in a vertical sleeve supported by a 

 small bracket riveted to the underside. A 

 bevel gear is carried on the bottom of the 

 forked rod. This gear in turn meshes with 

 another bevel on a short horizontal shaft 

 supported by a second bracket bolted to 

 the forward side of the dashboard. The 

 rear end of this shaft carries a pinion which 

 in turn meshes with a split two-part bevel 

 gear slipped over the 

 steering wheel column 

 and adjusted to fit by 

 means of small bolts in 

 the gear collar. In 

 another device for 



former being accomplished 

 through a system of levers 

 attached to the tie bar be- 

 tween the steering knuckles- 

 of the front wheels. Each 

 lamp is carried on a vertical 

 forked rod. This rod has a 

 cone-shaped sleeve fixed to it 

 at about its midpoint which 

 fits into an annular or ring- 

 like end of a lever pivoted 

 sideways onto the vehicle 

 frame or a suitable bracket. 

 The vertical rod carrying the 

 lamp is turned in the ring- 

 like support by means of a 

 horizontal arm attached at 

 its bottom. This arm is 

 moved to right or left by 

 means of a vertical sliding 

 rs^-y yoke bar, the bottom end of 

 jSjj/ which is restrained to move in 

 a slot in a plate bolted to the 

 transverse tie rod between the 

 steering arms of the front wheels. 



accomplishing the 

 same purpose the or- 

 dinary headlights as 

 carried in front of 

 the radiator are 

 made to turn to the 

 right or left as the 

 wheels are turned, 

 the movement of the 



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The vaporizer acts au- 

 tomatically. When the 

 engine stops, the water 

 valve closes and im- 

 mediately stops the flow 



Removing Carbon from Your 

 Automobile Engine with Water 



LE. SMITH, of Seattle, has invented a 

 . device which carries water from the 

 jacket or circulation system of an auto- 

 mobile by means of a small tube and forces 

 it into the manifold in the form of spray, 

 thus acting as a complete decarbonizer and 

 at the same time giving extra power to the 

 engine. 



From a tube fastened to the jacket the 

 water flows into the device through a 

 needle-valve which regulates the quantity 

 according to requirements. The water 

 vaporizer is tapped to the manifold, and an 

 air valve at the other end supplies the force 

 that forms spray of the water. With the 

 engine running, the needle-valve opens and 

 the water is sucked into the port with the 

 air, mixing as vapor with the gas of the 

 ..r. .r. manifold intake. The 



WATER VALVE CONTROLLED . , _^, 



BT SPRING A6A1NST suaioN action oi txie vapor- 

 Of MOTOR j^g^ jg entirely auto- 



ADJUST1N6 matic. When the 

 engine stops the 

 valve closes. 



Water is a good 

 decarbonizer. Hence 

 this device not only 

 removes the carbon 

 but prevents carbon 

 from forming. 



AIR VALVl CONTROLLED 

 BY 5PR1N6 AGAINST 

 6UaiON Of MOTOR 



