Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1894 — Saves Time. [ARTICLE]

Saves Time.

A New York wood dealer, who handles many cargoes of oordwood annually, finding that the,time consumed in unloading carts at thfe yard amounted to a considerable ■item of' expense, has invented a ctln by which this item is eliminated entirely. The cart has a horizontal platform hung low between a pair of wheels on a crank axle. The platform is kqld In place by a button shutting into a slot in the forward part of the frame of the cart. The driver backs up to the,string piece on the wharf and nis cart is loaded. Then he drives to the yard and when he is at the spot whore It is desired to unload the wood he simply turns the button and releases the platform and the platform tips backward, and thus the cart unloads itrfelf. , The dri'er never stops at all—he just keeps right on to tne wha"f again. The operation is so extremely Staple arid'so obviously economical that it is a delight to the eye of even the most casual observer.