Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1899 — TRUCK HANDLE FOR BARRELS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TRUCK HANDLE FOR BARRELS.

Tonslike Device for Liftins and Car* ryins Balky Packases. A barrel Is an exceedingly awkward thing to handle, and in establishments where they are moved in large numbers quite a considerable amount of time is lost in placing them on the hand trucks on which they are conveyed and in removing them therefrom. In order to facilitate this loading and unloading a unique track has been invented by Theodore T. Dickerson, of Trimble, Ala. It consists of the combination with the axle-of curved gripping jaws, more like a great pair of plumber’s pinchers than anything else: Ths levers operating the jaws form the handles of the truck. In practice the truck is run up to the barrels and the jaws clamped around the bottom, and

then raised, the whole procedure consuming but a few seconds. The two lever arms are held firmly together by a linking clasp, with a spring-pressed ratchet, which is easily released foi unshipping the barrel.

LIKE A BIG PAIR OF TONGS.