. Railway mechanical engineer . Easily Applied Coupler Release Connection Trailer Attachment Applied to Transveyor THE attachment illustrated enables the Type G trans-veyor manufactured by the Cowan Truck Company,Holyoke, Mass., to be used as a trailer behind electricStorage battery trucks, either singly or as a train. The at-. Cowan Transveyor Trailer Attachment and Safety Latch tachment fits onto the front wheel and hitches to the drawbar on the rear axle of the transveyor ahead of it, or thedraw bar of the electric truck. No change in the construc-tion of the transveyor is necessary except
. Railway mechanical engineer . Easily Applied Coupler Release Connection Trailer Attachment Applied to Transveyor THE attachment illustrated enables the Type G trans-veyor manufactured by the Cowan Truck Company,Holyoke, Mass., to be used as a trailer behind electricStorage battery trucks, either singly or as a train. The at-. Cowan Transveyor Trailer Attachment and Safety Latch tachment fits onto the front wheel and hitches to the drawbar on the rear axle of the transveyor ahead of it, or thedraw bar of the electric truck. No change in the construc-tion of the transveyor is necessary except a longer forthe front wheel fork. The draw bar is applied to the rearaxle of any transveyor without taking off the wheels, as itmerely slips over tlie rear axle. Both the attachment and thedraw bar are steel castings and will stand up under anyordinary conditions. In this arrangement the shortest possible connection isprovided for, so that the train will Ix; no longer than is abso-lutely necessary. The truck wheels follow in the sametrack and the turning radius is so short that a train of tentrucks has been turned in a circle on a twenty foot road-way. Plenty of up and down play is allowed so that therewill be no binding as the machines go over the door sills orthe top of steep inclines. A safety handle latch has
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