Southern good roads . olk & Western is progressive inevery way and lielieves in good roads. All itsline it is oftering the people special iiidiicciiiiiils toget them to build good roads. They haul liuildmgstone and good roads machinery at rediiced rales andaid in building roads around their stations. The W. is a, great constructive force for good. A New Asphalt and Oil Distributor. A new appliance f ir distributing hot as|.ihalt and oil,which has recently been put on the market, is adver-tised in this issue of S)uthem Good Roads, It is op-erated liy one man. ami is ihsigned t(.i r&
Southern good roads . olk & Western is progressive inevery way and lielieves in good roads. All itsline it is oftering the people special iiidiicciiiiiils toget them to build good roads. They haul liuildmgstone and good roads machinery at rediiced rales andaid in building roads around their stations. The W. is a, great constructive force for good. A New Asphalt and Oil Distributor. A new appliance f ir distributing hot as|.ihalt and oil,which has recently been put on the market, is adver-tised in this issue of S)uthem Good Roads, It is op-erated liy one man. ami is ihsigned t(.i r<place the se\-eral laborers employed in hand pouring in the usualconstruction of bitnimii iMnnid broken stone i-oads penetration inelliod. The maciiine i-insists, essentially, of a covitciI lanl mesli, Il Ills into. Gravel Kuati, Statesboro, Ga, the tank al Ihe lop and may be removed forcleaning. When the lank is lieing filled thematerial is pmireil or dischargid into the screen in or-der to keep foreign matter from entering the distribu-tor. The wheels are 30 inches high and 3 inches hinged lids co\er the tank when in operation After the tank has been filled at the heater, the o[vI rator wheels it to the point at which the applicationis to beciii. When he reaches this point he opens theoutbt by niians of the levers at the handles and walksalon,o the road, drawinu- the distriliutor after him. Thematerial is dischar,ged from a slit at the bottom of the^-shaped projection at the rear of the tank. Thewidth of this slot can be adjusted so as to permit thematerial to fall upon the road in a sheet of the de-sired tlii(dess, therehy regulating th rate of ajiiilica-tion. The distribntin apjilies the material ovir a width ofJ, ft. which lirinus the edges of the strip on which ap- 34 SOUTHERN GO
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