Birmingham state herald., 1896-08-04

| it is designed that about one-third of the surface of the street be swept from the curb inwardly toward the street railway tracks. The self-loading car then passes over the tracks at any desired speed, taking up the refuse and conveying 1t to any desired location.
 The loading of the car is accomplished by large rotary brushes placed across the center of the car, the brushes being covered with steel castings and having proper outlets for discharging the sweep ings into the body of the car. The high speed of the brush forms powerful sue ton, which takes up all the refuse mat ter and deposits it into the body of the car, which is provided with pivoted dump floors for dropping the load instantly at any point desired. The cars are driven preferable by stationary motor placed directly over the brushes on the operat- ing platform of the car, the brush being operated from countershaft by sprock- ct wheels and chaina
 The brush makes five revolutions to each one of car wheel. It works much on the same principle as a carpet sweep CT and will throw the dust distance of 25 feet The broom, which is fastened to solid heavy aXles, is so arranged that it always fills the case in which it is con- tained, a simple but ingenius device changing the size of the latter to suit the changes made by the wear of material. The broom acts as well one way as an- other, steel deflectors being so arranged that it can be run backward without any change of machinery or even without touching it. The direction of the car may be reversed instantly. The broom may be extended so as to cover the whole street outside the car track if necessary. For removing snow in winter the car may be constructed as long or wide as may be required. The car may be un- loaded in thirty seconds, one man doing the whole work by manipulating lever.
 The cost of operating this electric sweeper is claimed to be $3 per mile. The side sweeping by horse machine can be done for $1. .50 per mile, which makes the total cost $4.5O per mile From S15 to 25 per mile is now paid by cities for the same work.
 Inventor Reynolds has had an experi- ence of thirty-five years in the design and construction of mechanical appara- tus, having spent four years with the best engineers of Paris, London, Vienna and other foreign cities. He is also the inventor of several other devices for which patents have been granted in Can ada and the United States. MT Reynolds has been granted broad patents on his sweeper by both Canada and the United States.
 A car of this type is now being con- structed in Montreal for the Montreal Street Railway company which will have loading capacity equal to fifty carts. The car will be equipped with two 20- horse power motors, one to propel the car, the other to drive the sweeping ap- paratus, and will clean the streets at the rate of five miles per hour
 But if this plan should be adopted sev- eral men would be out of a job It is as- serted that besides. the regular sure enough laborers there are some young men, gentlemen who have no visible means of support, and must, for appear ance sake, have a certain amount of tVh n nr1 ha ctr oIa o,,i force after midnight and in this way earn their pin money"