Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1877 — Valuable Invention. [ARTICLE]

Valuable Invention.

A Texas man has contrived a plan for taking wood on railway trains without stopping. The machine consists of a flexible platform elevated a few inches above the height of the tender, upon which the cord-wood is piled. As the train passes, by the use of a lever the engineer throws out a catch which takes the course of a groove in which a band that revolves the rollers underneath the platform is caught, and the platform is passed around the rollers, moving toward the tender, into which the wood is thrown. After the wood is discharged the platform recedes, and escapes the cars, which $y by, and no time is lost.