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lever 12, having its front end pivoted to the cross-bar 5, the stationary handle-bar 7, hav- ing the laterally-projecting curved plate and provided with the semi-cylindrical guard or 5 shield 9, the movable handle-bar pivoted to the bar 7 and provided with a guard or shield 11, and having an inwardly-projecting sig- moidal arm 15, the link connecting the rear end of the lever to the sigmoidal arm, and io the spring 17, having its ends secured to the
handles, substantially as and for the purpose described. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses. ROBERT MONDAY. Witnesses: MOSES HUGS, LEWIS TYOOD.