Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1918 — INVENTS PLAN TO TAKE “KICK” OUT OF ENGINE [ARTICLE]

INVENTS PLAN TO TAKE “KICK” OUT OF ENGINE

Suffering a broken arm by having the engine of his automobile backfire while engaged in cranking it, resulted in Clyde Cocby, age seventeen, of Evansville, studying out an invention that prevents engines from “kicking.” Seeing the big benefit his invention will prove to the federal government in its countless machines and trucks for war purposes, he submitted it to the officials at Washington, D. C., to obtain a war patent on it. Young Cosby’s invention causes an instant release of the crank at the cessation of force by cranking, making it impossible for the engine to throw back the crank and endanger the operator.