SCIENCE AND INVENTIONS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3336, 20 February 1918, Page 57

SCIENCE AND INVENTIONS.

(Released January 26, 1918.) C. J. Lynde, Macdonald College.. Quebec, Canada. PREVENTS MOVING AND KICKING. This hobble is attached during the milking:time to prevent the cow from moving or kicking. Any movement of the legs

tightens the chain, and this in turn causes the lever on the left clamp to pinch the leg.—Wm. Meyer. jun., Swedeburg, Nebraska. U.S. patent 1,244,628. ICE SAW. We show here a gasoline engine operating an ice harvester. It is so mounted oh two runners that it drives two saws,

Ice Daw 77fi \a and at the same time moves the harvester at the proper rate. —C. B. Gipson, Frankfort, South Dakota. U.S. patent 1,245,899, SWINGS ABOVE THE SNOW. The horizontal and vertical slat 3 here are so connected by bolts that the gate can be raised at one end to let small animals pass, or to swing above the snow

Cafe 777 in winter-time. You could make a gate of this kind. —G. W. Paulin, Atlanta, Illinois. U.S. patent 1,245,016. LEAVES THE HANDS FREE, . The winter months are the reading months, and we show here a simple bookrest which enables a person reading a book

3ook Resf or .paper to have his hands free for taking notes or for figuring. A boy could make one in a short time.-—Ernest Riebe, New York, N.Y. U.S. patent 1,232,089.

HARNESS RACK AND REIN-HOLDER. This simple waggon box attachment serves to hold the reins when the driver leaves the waggon, and also to hold the

harness when the horses are unhitched. The end attached to the box holds one standard of the box extension. —Wm. H. Weddle, Rainbow, Texas. U.S. patent 1,229,359.' TATTING HOCK. Women who do tatting will be interested in a hook which is worn on the forefinger of the right, hand, and which is used to bring the thread through a loop

of the completed section when starting a new section. —Charles L. Opperman, Galena, Kansas. U.S. patent 1,245,161.