. A treatise on hygiene and public health . Fig. 87.—Smiths two-horse side-sweeper. the speed of the horses. The oblique action of the broom throws the dirtto one side in the form of a winrow. When this machine is operatedalone, the dirt thus collected in rows at the sides of the street or in thecentre must be heaped up and thrown into carts by manual labor. Itmay be worked with great advantage in connection with the sweepingand loading machine, represented at Fig. 88. The construction of this. Fig. -Smiths street-sweeping and loading machine. apparatus is very similar to that of th
. A treatise on hygiene and public health . Fig. 87.—Smiths two-horse side-sweeper. the speed of the horses. The oblique action of the broom throws the dirtto one side in the form of a winrow. When this machine is operatedalone, the dirt thus collected in rows at the sides of the street or in thecentre must be heaped up and thrown into carts by manual labor. Itmay be worked with great advantage in connection with the sweepingand loading machine, represented at Fig. 88. The construction of this. Fig. -Smiths street-sweeping and loading machine. apparatus is very similar to that of the apparatus shown in Fig. 87, ex-cept that there is added a dirt-box, or receiver, into which the dirt is de-posited as it is swept from the surface of the street. By the use of this complete appliance, or rather combination of appli-ances, the dirt can be swept and collected from the street surface simul-taneously, and by this rneans the objectionable small heaps are receivers are emptied at convenient places, more or less distant, ac-cording to the amount of soil on the streets, and from these places ofgeneral deposit it is removed in ordinary carts. By avoiding the small SOIL AND WATER. 561 heaps there is a saving of time and labor, and the result of the work ismore complete and satisfactory. There are single-horse machines of both descriptions, but those shownin Figs. 87 and 88 are decidedly the most efficient for ordinary stone pave-ments, especially the cobble-stone pa
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