Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1915 — KEEPS SNOW FROM TRACK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KEEPS SNOW FROM TRACK

Device Should Be of Great Value to the Railroads in Times of Severe Weatheh

To prevent the drifting of Bnow in railroad cuts is the object of an invention patented by Benjamin F. Swezey of Bellingham, Minn. The device consists of a framework of notched beams running parallel with the sides

of the railroad put, In the notches are placed strips extending at'angles of approximately 60 degrees with thehorizon. It is claimed that when the wind stakes the strips the snow willbe deflected downward around the forwa rd end of the device on one side of the ixaqk and up under the strips on the other aide. _ i