A PATENT STACKING MACHINE

Evening Star, Issue 12396, 9 January 1905, Page 5

A PATENT STACKING MACHINE

A ]abor>saving machine for handling and altering caabs and bales -was* inspected this afternoon by a number of leading msrcbanta and shippers at the bulk store of Messrs Sargcod, Son, and Ewcn, by whom it has been used for some months. The machine, which is built,of structural steel, i« an elevating portable truck, occupying a floor space of 3ft by 4ft 6in, and is capable by a double-purchase winch action of raising to a height of 9fb 6in any weight up to I,ooolb. For lighter cases or bales a single-purchase can be used, its direct pction being quicker. As brought from Melbourne, the machine stood on rollers, but Messrs Sargcod, Son, and Ewcn, the NewZealand agents, arc having the machines that are being made in Dunedin so constructed aa to take the machine" off its rollers by raising the truck handle, this leaving the concern stationary and immovable, Tho great point about the machine is that it enables stored goods to be piled high without cither lal>or, time, or trouble, thus economising space. Repeated trials were mado to-day in raising and lowering nnd transferring heavy cases to and from the top of a huge pile of packages. Only two men were required, and tbe work was done to the entire satisfaction of tho spectators. Mr P. R. Sargood states that the machine has fully realised his firm's expectations.