Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-15
LATE INVENTIONS,
Street Railway Traffic VIII Be Benehted
Also, New Mower and Reaper for
Which Much Is Claimed.

Also, New Mower and Reaper for
Which Much Is Claimed.
One has onlyto observe the present meth
ods of throwing a switch on a street railway
track to appreciate a recent invention of
Captain NJ. A. Cutter, President of the
Canton Malleable Iron and Manufacturing
Company, Canton, o. This invention not
only enables the motorman or gripman to
throw a switch without leaving his car, but
he can accomplish this while the car is go
ing at any rate of speed and without any
inconvenience to himself. The fact that
this invention is combined with SIM
plicity and inexpensiveness is sufficient
proof that it will soon be brought into gen.
eral use. Another invention of Mr.. Cut
ter is for the equipment of an electric car
with one motor where by necessity two have
been required-as this reduces the cost of
construction about so per cent, the value of
it can be readily seen. The touch of a
lever swings the car around upon it's wheels
when it can be propelled in the opposite
direction. In connection with this may be
mentioned third invention of merit which
Mr.. Cutter has recently patented. 1t con-
sists of a brake to hold the car
while being reversed. The state
ment was made by experts that the
ordinary brake would be incapable of doing
this, as the reversing of the car requires
the application of the electric power. They
claimed that as the entire running gear of
the car would be reversed the brake would
likewise be reversed and 80 could not per-
form its work. This latter contrivance,
however, sets all doubts at rest in this di-
rection. Each of the inventions mentioned
above may be applied to single truck cars,
propelled by any force, and will doubtless
be great benefit to street railway traffic.
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Gutter, he has purchased all rights
for the United States and all for
eign countries of another remarkable
invention known as the Nations
mower" This is moving machine con-
structed upon novel ideas, and it is claimed
will supercede all others. The superiority
which the Nations mower" has over other
machines can best be judged by compari-
son. Old style machines now in use weigh
about 800 pounds. The "Nation's mower"
weighs but 200 pounds. The former is
drawn by two horses. The latter by one.
Then, again, the old style mowers have a
great amount of cog;,wheel gearing-pos-
sessing two wheels which have diameter
of "a to SO inches, and having but three
inches of traction power-while the
'tNation's mower" has no cog-wheels,
its largest driving wheels measuring but
eight inches in diameter, yet the machine
has IA inches of traction power The cost of
construction is also much cheaper. A
"Nation' can be built for SIS, about one
half the cost of the old kind The malleable
iron of which these machines are made rem
ders them less liable to breakage, and when
not being operated they can be hauled on
single runner, which is controlled by alever,
thus greatly lessening wear and tear.
The above are but few of the many rea-
sons why it is believed the ''Nation" will
take the lead. This was demonstrated by a
test in West Virginia recently, when it
competed most favorably with Others doing
more work, with far less exertion. The
above description will also apply
to Mr.. Cutters new reaper
and binder, for as much diff
ference is said to exist between it and other
reapers and binders as is found between the
two mowers. An examination will fully
demonstrate this fact. The immense de-
mand which will exist for these machines
will be better understood, when it is stated |
that the sales for the year of 1890 of our
New York manufacturer of the old machine !
reached the enormous figure of s., 100000.
Captain Cutter has three machines on exhi-
bition at his office, No. 100 Robinson street,
Allegheny. A large stock company, to be
known as the Nations Mower and Reaper |
Manufacturing Company, is being formed |!
to handle the inventions on large scale.