Popular Science Monthly 



593 



You Can Roll This Can Without 

 Spilling the Garbage 



IT looks as if the 

 ideal garbage can 

 had been invented 

 at last. William 

 Dowie, of New York 

 city, is the inventor 

 and his can is about 

 everything that a 

 garbage can can be. 

 It is dustless, odorless and 

 noiseless. You can turn it over 

 without spilling it because the 

 lid is clamped tight across the 

 top. The lid prevents flies, 

 dogs, cats, mice and rats 

 from touching the contents. 

 It is strictly a non-disease 

 spreading can. 



There are rubber 

 bumpers on the top and 

 bottom which make it 

 practically noiseless when 

 it is being rolled across the 

 sidewalk or street and 

 dumped in a wagon. Fur- 

 thermore, the rubber pro- 

 longs the life of the can, 

 protecting it against rough 

 handling. 



Drilling with This Electric Drill Is 

 Like Shooting a Pistol 



ELECTRICITY 

 is rap- 

 idly tak- 

 ing all the 

 back- 

 breaking 

 exertion out 

 of every kind 

 of work. If 

 all the inven- 

 tions based up- 

 on it turn out 

 satisfactorily and 

 as many more are 

 brought out in the 

 future the old 

 axiom about earn- 

 ing our bread by 

 the sweat of our 

 brow will lack pun- 

 gency. Look at the 

 electric drill shown 

 in the accompany- 

 ing photograph, for 



instance. It is patterned somewhat after 

 a pistol and by its use a hole can be drilled 

 iron or steel with the ease 

 of shooting a pistol. 



This electric drill has a trig- 

 ger-like on-and-off switch which 

 makes it possible to handle 

 the instrument without 

 fatigue. The trigger switch 

 also prevents the breakage 

 of drill bits for the reason 

 that it is possible to control 

 the drill without releasing 

 the grip to the slightest ex- 

 tent and allowing the 

 weight of thedevice to sag 

 on the drill bit. 



The workman instinct- 

 ively pulls the trigger to 

 shut off the current 

 when the drill bit 

 passes through the 

 metal being drilled, 

 thereby saving cur- 

 rent expense. The 

 chuck spindle can 

 be adjusted to fit 

 all sizes of bit stocks 

 so that the drill can 

 be used in nooks 

 and corners where 

 there is not much 

 room, and in hard- 

 to-reach spots, as shown in the accompany- 

 ing illustration. 



The lid on the can prevents the 

 contents from spilling and keeps 

 flies from spreading disease 



The cover of the 



"Shooting" a hole into a hard-to-reach spot 

 with an electrically operated pistol-shaped drill 



motor armature of 

 the drill is per- 

 forated for cooling 

 to prevent over- 

 heating. The drill 

 weighs a trifle over 

 thirteen pounds 

 complete and drives 

 the bit at nine hun- 

 dred revolutions 

 per minute with no 

 exertion on the part 

 of the operator. 



The ease with 

 which it is operated 

 is not the only at- 

 traction of the elec- 

 tric drill, however. 

 The hole is made in 

 a small fraction of 

 the time required 

 by the ordinary 

 method and is per- 

 fectly clean and 

 true. 



