Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1914 — EASY TO PLACE TORPEDOES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EASY TO PLACE TORPEDOES

Fork Enable* Person on Rear End of Moving Train to Lay Them Without Slacking Speed. The device shown in the sketch is known as the torpedo fork. It allows a person standing on the rear end of a train to place torpedoes on the rail while the train is in motion. The tines are spaced wide enough apart and are so shaped that the rail head will pass up between them. The ends of the tines are flattened and

bent, as shown, while the whole fork is fastened in a handle of suitable length. In, operation the torpedo spring is opened and slipped over the clips on the tipes. The fork is then lowered over the rail, When the torpedo strikes the rail it is knocked off the clips, and the spring grasps the rail head. These forks can be made single if desired, but the double fork is.more convenient where it is required to set two torpedoes close together.—Popular Mechanics.

Fork for Holding the Spring of a Torpedo to Place It on a Rail Behind a Train.