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mounted upon the platform between the front
and rear axle, a crank-shaft mounted in the
pillow-blocks, a sprocket fixed to the crank-
shaft, a chain connecting the sprockets, a
5 seat-support attached at one end to the plat-
form adjacent the front axle, and having
its rear end bifurcated and straddling the
sprocket of the rear axle, the extremities of
the bifurcations being fixed to the platform
io in the rear of the rear axle, a seat upon the
support, a lever pivoted transversely of the
support, pitmen pivotally connected with the
lever and with the cranks of the crank-axle,
a seat mounted upon the support in the rear
15 of said lever, a second lever pivoted upon
the platform and extending above and be-
low the platform, a connecting-rod attached
at the lower end of the lever and to the front
axle, a notched segment upon the platform, a
hand-lever pivoted to the upper end of the 20
second lever, and a reciprocatory dog mounted
upon the second lever and attached to the
hand-lever and adapted for engagement with
the segment.
In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 25
my own I have hereto affixed my signature in
the presence of two witnesses.
JAMES M. MYERS.
Witn'esses-
W. I. MYERS,
C. M. JONES.