Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1913 — NEW PAINTERS’ JACK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW PAINTERS’ JACK.

Btand Cart Be Lengthened Without Danger of the User Falling. A painter's pack, on which a man may work with np fear of its overturning, has been invented by a Pennsylvania man. The platform of the Jack has two supporting bars pivoted near the outer end and connected with it farther in by rods that are pivoted to the bars and slidably mounted on-the board. The platform extends out of a window across the Bill, ' and the supporting bars run down diagonally from it, and rest against the house wall. Inside the room and movably mounted on the inner end of the board are vertically depending bars, which are moved up till they fit close against the wall, and prevent any longitudinal movement. Thus clamped to the sill, there is no possibility of the jack moving.

either out or in or up and down, though it can be extended to the limit with perfect safety. Whdta not in use the whole contrivance can be folded into small compass.

No Danger of Overturning.