PARK AND CEMETERY. 
VII 
FRIGID Automatic Safety Control 
You 
Control — 
But You 
Don’t Do 
the Work 
Lowering Device 
All we ask of you is to touch the lever. That 
releases the gears — the machine automatically low- 
ers the casket gently, slowly and silently into the 
grave. You can go away if you wish. Your work 
is done. Or, if you want to lower the casket to a 
level with the grave, touch the lever and when it 
descends to that point, touch the lever again and 
it stops right there till you get ready to let it go 
down. 
Automatic vs Friction Clutch. 
The difference between our new Automatic Safe- 
ty Control Device and the old style friction clutch 
device is just the difference between machine power 
and hand power — just progress. Where is the old- 
fashioned hand loom, the old scythe, the old hand 
printing press? They were all controlled by hand. 
The women of today do not weave for the family 
needs. The big power loom does that and we buy 
a finer product by the yard. The farmer of today 
rides easy on his mower — even the smallest printer 
has his power press. Power — controlled power — 
progress. 
Why Not a Power Lowering Device? 
For the Automatic is a power machine. The 
weight of the casket furnishes the power that oper- 
ates the Device — you simply start or stop it by foot 
pressure while standing erect — the machine con- 
trols its own movement. So we have a mechanical 
power control in the Frigid Automatic — a gear 
mechanism, surely a vast improvement over the 
old-fashioned hand control — the friction clutch. 
Simple as A. B. C. 
Three parts — a bevel gear, a worm gear and a 
governor — these three and the greatest of these is 
the governor. They do the work, and briefly, this 
is how: The two side shafts to which the webbings 
are attached, connect with a bevel gear. The bevel 
gear meshes into a worm gear, and the worm with 
a governor. You know there never has been any 
control ever devised or invented that equals the 
mechanical governor — Watt put it on the first 
steam engine and it’s been on engines ever since. 
Safety Guaranteed. 
And with the governor you get safety. Instead 
of asking you by your “personal control” to exert a 
500 pound pressure on a friction brake to keep a 
500 pound load from going down too fast or drop- 
ping with a thud, we take the control from you and 
put it in a governor — but we don’t even ask the 
governor to control the whole 500 pounds on the 
Device. Instead the arrangement of the gears is 
such (the ratio between the gears being 21 to 1) 
that the governor has to exercise only a slight con- 
trol in order to entirely dominate the action of the 
machine in lowering the casket. 
To Illustrate. 
At the meeting of the Association of Cemetery 
Superintendents at Buffalo in September, we put 
five big men on a platform on the Device, approxi- 
mate weight 1,000 pounds. While they were being 
lowered, finger pressure was applied to the gov- 
ernor disk, stopping the downward movement. 
When released the downward movement resumed 
— the five men were lowered to the floor. If a fin- 
ger pressure was sufficient to hold 1,000 pounds 
stationary on the web, you can realize how sim- 
ple and easy our governor control is. 
The Buyers. 
Just to show how Safety and Automatic opera- 
tion appeal to cemetery superintendents and under- 
takers, over 75 per cent of the orders received have 
been from those who now own the old style fric- 
tion clutch devices. We are at present oversold at 
least 90 days, and have been oversold for two 
months past. 
Extensible Both Ways. 
The Frigid will take in the largest grave vault 
or casket — and the smallest. The webbing is tested 
to a breaking strain of over 2,000 pounds per web. 
The webbing is continuous — has side release that 
came into view when the casket is at the bottom 
of the grave — the safest and easiest release ever 
devised. 
Two Models. 
It is made in two models — the undertaker’s fold- 
ing model — the cemetery knock down model. All 
orders subject to delivery in 90 days. 
FRIGID FLUID CO., 217 S. Western Ave., Chicago, Illinois 
