A Load Binder.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 162, 24 July 1886, Page 5

A Load Binder.

We here reproduce from the columns of the Scientific American a description and illustrat novelty in devices for binding loads, which consists of headed lever pi-o-vided with a chain and hook mechanism for attaching the binding chain, so that loads of timber, merchandise, or other commodities may be securely and easily bound upon a waggon or other vehicle. It is simple, easily handled, powerful, and inexpensive. This device is patented by Mr Stephen S. Conkling, of Middletown, Orange county, X". Y. In the engraving, Ais the lever, and

B the head, and they may be made solid, of malleable cast iron, or of wood and iron combined. The head is circular in form, and grooved on its circumference to receive the chain, and has extended straps which receive and hold the lever. Upon one of the straps is formed ari eye to which one end of the hooked chain is attached The head is perforated near its centre, for the passage of a bolt or pin which secures a clevis to the head, the cleviu being provided with a swivelled eye to which is attached ahook to hook into the binding chain. The free end of the lever is provided with a chain by which the lever is secured after being brought to bind the load. In use the swivelled hook and the hook at the end of the chain that passes over the head of the lever are to be hooked in the binding chains, with the lever standing toward the swivelled hook, and then to bind the load the free end of the lever is forced down and secured to the binding chain. The distance-from the pivot to the outside of the head is very short, and furnishes a powerful leverage, making it possible to make the device small and compact and still furnish ample power.— -N. Z. Farmer.