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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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ng leg brace which the inventor* guar-antees will cure any knee-sprung or anklecocked horse in a few weeks. Laced at the knee joint is a strap, to theopposite sides of which are attached theends of a metal band which is. so curvedthat it touches the band only at the ends.Secured to this band are the ends of twosprings which pass down and under thefoot, being kept from spreading by a metalclasp, and being held securely in place bybeing passed through holes in the rearcorks, nuts being screwed on the ends. The construction of the device and the way it isapplied are very clearly shown in the cut.The tendency of the springs is to force theknee back to its normal position, andstraighten the leg. •Alphonse Cote, 850 Seventh Avenue, New YorkCity. Eeliance Slip Link and Safety Hook. This is designed to afford an easy meansof diseDgaging from chain or hooks. It isespecially useful for horses, and the illus-trations we give show various applicationsof it as applied for harness links. * When a
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This slip link is intended to afford an easymeans of releasing a fallen horse before ithas had time to injure itself or others in itsfrantic endeavors to rise. The larger illus-tration shows clearly the principle of thelink. By pressing the trigger ring—whichis held in position by the spring shown indotted lines—the catch is released and thelink opened; when closed the tendenej ofthe pull is to tighten the hold. * Phoenix Metal Die & Engineering Co., 29 Adding-ton st., York Road, Lambeth, England. »■ *■ The Mekarski System. A writer in an English contemporary, re-ferring to a certain car worked at the Inven- / \J x-.

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