Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1892 — Ingenious Street Sweeper. [ARTICLE]

Ingenious Street Sweeper.

Many cities from "New York downward, which have not yet solved the problem of cleaning their streets well and cheaply, would profit greatly by an examination into the working of a machine, that has been introduced into Germany for picking up street sweepings. This machine, which is drawn by horses, takes up iu its forward motion the moist street debris or mud which has been deposited in streaks by the preceding sweeper. The frame of the machine carries, suspended frpm the rear axle, an iron trough of half Cylindrical shape, about four feet in length and nearly three feet wide. At the inside of the rear wheel an open paddle wheel is attached, which takes up the sweepings and drops them into the trough. A small plow at the front serves to narrow the strip of sweepings, which may possibly have been scattered somewhat by the hoofs of the horses drawing the machine. When the trough is filled it can be instantly dumped at any required spot by means of a crank and chain arrangement. It is stated that this machine, which i 3 easily Jrawn by two horses and managed by one man, can remove from four to six miles of double rows of sweepings in a day.