Popular Science Monthly 



Throwing You Out of the 

 Automobile's Way 



IF your car is equipped with the 

 new life-saving device invented 

 by Jos. M. Crichrion, of Monterey, 

 California, you need not fear that 

 you will injure the careless pedes- 

 trian who gets in your path. You 

 may knock him down, but you 

 can not run over him. 



This safety device consists of 

 two arms which are attached to 

 the front of the machine. When 

 these arms come into contact with 

 anything, they are released auto- 

 matically and fling the object 

 which they encounter out of the 

 path of the machine. The arms are 

 padded so as to be easy on the 

 pedestrian. 



This invention has been tried 

 out in California and is said to be 

 very successful. A car traveling 

 at the rate of twenty-five miles an 

 hour ran into a man for a test. The man 

 was not hurt. Since he knew what was 

 coming he was not even shocked. 



We don't think that the four million 

 automobile owners in the country will 

 scramble over one another in their efforts 

 to buy this safety device. It 

 may be operative and useful — 

 but look at it! Imagine the 

 arms protruding from the latest 

 type of trim roadster! 



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Two arms attached to the front of the automobile 

 are released automatically to clear the car's path 



The marking machines simply melt the natural wax on the 

 outer skin of the fruit and make the inked imprint on 

 the second skin. This does not injure the fruit 



A Machine Which Stamps Oranges 

 with a Trademark 



ALONG-STANDING problem in the 

 fruit merchandising business may soon 

 be solved by a patented marking machine 

 invented by Frank Ahlburg, 

 of San Francisco, which 

 stamps the trade name 

 on the fruit before it is 

 shipped to the dealer. 



The marking machine 

 consists of a revolving wheel 

 carrying the marking dies 

 across the fruit which passes 

 beneath it in an endless 

 conveyor. The eighteen 

 plungers on the wheel are 

 so arranged that they have 

 a play of two and one-half 

 inches toward the center of the 

 wheel, this being the extreme range 

 of marketable oranges or lemons. 

 Pressure for the marking is furnished 

 partly by the weight of one and one- 

 half pounds and an added spring 

 pressure. The plunger head consists 

 of two parts, the electric heating ele- 

 ment lying between them. Current 

 is supplied from a set of brass rings 

 on the axis of the wheel, by means 

 of sliding contact rods. Each of 

 the eighteen dies is inked at every 

 revolution of the wheel. 



