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Popular Science Monthly 



Inserted between the front 

 axle of an automobile and 

 the frame of the car, the 

 two springs are carried 

 between narrow plates 



Two vertical pins extend 

 through concentric holes 

 in the two center plates so 

 that the springs cannot 

 be jolted out of place 



Cushion, spring 



and then I will send for a new spring. It 

 will cost me two or three dollars to be towed 

 home. Go ahead and weld it for me." 

 And so Scott would sadly weld the spring 

 and charge one dollar and the driver 

 would go away satisfied. 



For all that, he did not dismiss the sub- 

 ject from his mind. Finally he hit upoa the 

 idea which we illustrate. 



Inserted between the front axle of an 

 automobile and the frame of the car, the 

 two coil springs are each carried between 

 two narrow plates. The upper plate of the 

 top spring bears against the under side of 

 the frame and the lower one against the top 

 plate of the lower spring while the bottom 

 plate of the latter bears against the top of 

 the main car spring. Each set of plates has 

 two vertical pins which extend through con- 

 centric holes in the two center plates as 

 shown, so that the springs cannot jump out 

 of place as they take up the bound and re- 

 bound of the car spring. 



If you have Scott's de- 

 vice in your toolbox' and a 

 spring should break, you 

 can make your own re- 

 pair on the spot. You 

 will not require the ser- 

 vices of a blacksmith or 

 someone to tow you home. 

 You continue your trip 

 just as if nothing had 

 happened. 



Car frame 



Front spring 



A New Way of Cushioning the Front 

 Spring Action of an Automobile 



WALTER F."A. SCOTT of Doylestown, 

 Pennsylvania, is a blacksmith who 



How Did One Egg Get Inside 

 of the Other? 



TWO eggs in one alongside, are not 

 uncommon and are known as double 



has seen many a broken down automobile in 

 his time. Often a driver would bring his 

 car to him and point 

 sadly to the broken 

 leaves of a spring 

 which he had at- 

 tempted to repair 

 temporarily with a 

 block of wood. 



Scott knew that 

 after a spring is 

 welded, it is not to 

 be depended upon. 

 He would offer to 

 make a satisfactory 

 job but invariably he 

 would be met with 

 the reply: "I Only A perfect egg of good size formed in- 



want to get home side of another perfectly shaped egg 



yolked. But the eggs found by Mrs. Grace 



Lee Smidt of Sound Beach, Connecticut, 



are out of the ordi- 



nary because the in- 

 terior egg has a shell. 

 Diminutive eggs 

 are frequently laid 

 by hens, especially in 

 the "last of the lit- 

 ter," as the farmer 

 would express it, and 

 it is evident that in 

 this double-egg pro- 

 duction, the process 

 of forming a larger 

 egg continued as if 

 the shell had not 

 been deposited on 

 the smaller. 



