The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-09-10
W. c. NORRIS LADDERS.
A Big Thing for Artisans-Push-
ing the Sale of Emery's See
ti0nal Ladder.

The following article from an eastern
paper gives detailed account of the
sectional ladders Tor which w. G. Morris
has secured the agency. They form
most ingenious invention, and are
fifty called "the greatest wonder in lad
ders since the days of Jacob" For
mining purposes, as the description
shows, they are uhexcelled:
The great feature of the ladder con-
sists in the method OF locking two sec
tons together by which The length
may be increased indefinitely, while at
the same time the strength of ali its
parts may be preserved. The device is
simplicity itself, and when one sees it
he wonders why it had not been
thought Of before. The side pieces Of
the ladder are from 2L to G inches wide,
and II inches thick. Imagine two sec
tons, 81 feet long and each lacking one
rung, the holes for which have been
bored within four inches of the end
of the side piece. Now saw two
cuts one inch apart from the end to
his vacant one-inch rung-hole and the
piece drops out; leaving a slot from the
end into or out of which the rung could
slip tsideways. Then take the two
sections and place the two slotted ends
together; one is narrower than the
other by the combined thickness of the
side pieces, and the narrower one just
fits between the sides of the wider, and
on being pressed together the slots on
the narrower lock the first rung of the
wider. and the slots at the end of the
wider lock tightly on the projecting
ends of the first rung of the narrower
one, and hook and eye holds the two
frrr - \ !
for fire purposes lock over two rungs.
and thus the device amounts to yery
strong splice of from u to 20 inches. a
strong bolt being put through the end
of each slotted side, Just back of the
slot, so as to prevent all possibility of
splitting under great pressure. Section
after section can thus be fastened to-
gether and the relative strength of all
the parts preserved. For a step ladder
two sections are put together, but with
only one rung in place, when it can be
turned TO any angle, or if q longer one
Is need the sections can be doubled.
For fire purposes the ladder fills every
requirement. Sect on after section can
be added from below by two or three
men, the sliding up the side of build
ing being made easy by means of a
wheel set at the top of each side OF the
top section. At trial at Victory Mills
in Saratoga county a ladder LOG feet
long was raised against a building and
seven men were distributed upon it at
different points. Thus, with a little
help any window OF the tallest building
can be re"ched- making the simplest
and best fire escapes. For hotels,
factories, a-nhouses, and in fact all
kinds of buildings the sectional ladder
fills every reasonable requirement,
while for farm purposes, picking fruit,
trimming trees, etc, etc., they are also
the very thing needed.
Six sizes OF ladders are made: the
scuttle ladder, the paper hangers lad
der, painters ladder, carpenters and
builders, and fremen's ladders-the
latter being fitted with spurs for the
bottom and wheels for the top. The
capacity of the mill is 200 per day, and
100 per day are now being turned out.
step in the manufacture to guard
against imperfeetion, and every section
is subjected to the seyerest tests before
leaving the factory.