. Public works . [.e oflfers many ivossibilities. It can .^e designed with either a plat-form, rack, or dump body for carrying any commodity tlat can be picked up with grappling hooks or gathered up in a bucket or scoop. With the power crane it should make easy the liandling of such diverse ma-terial as cut stone. castings, pipe, etc. The total weight of this truck, with a 6- ton load, does not exceed weight of a regular 7^-ton Mack dump truck loaded to capacity. la^uned to and revolved with the rearwheels, through a sprocket plate is only a few inches abovethe pavement and its revol
. Public works . [.e oflfers many ivossibilities. It can .^e designed with either a plat-form, rack, or dump body for carrying any commodity tlat can be picked up with grappling hooks or gathered up in a bucket or scoop. With the power crane it should make easy the liandling of such diverse ma-terial as cut stone. castings, pipe, etc. The total weight of this truck, with a 6- ton load, does not exceed weight of a regular 7^-ton Mack dump truck loaded to capacity. la^uned to and revolved with the rearwheels, through a sprocket plate is only a few inches abovethe pavement and its revolution causestlie sand to fly in all horizontal direc-tions by centrifugal KIXDLING . SPREADINa MECHANISM. KINDLING SAND SPREADER. This consists of a wagon, simple andstrong in construction, the body ofwhich holds the sand or gravel, whichis distributed over the roadway auto-matically by a spreader. The sand orgravel flows from the bottom of thewagon body through a chute whichdischarges it upon the spreader. The spreader consists of a circularhorizontal plate carrying 16 approxi-mately radial flanges on its upper sur-face. The plate is carried by a verti-cal shaft which is supported from thewagon Imdy and is revolved by bevel■jiaiinu driven liy tlie axle, which is
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