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���The slotted rod attached to the tie bar moves with the steering wheel, causing the forked bar with the lamp to turn likewise

��Automobile Lights which Turn with the Roads

A STATIONARY lamp is of no value in lighting up the road when turning a corner or curve; but a search- light mounted on top of the motor hood may be turned directly on the path to the .right or left as the steering wheel is turned, the movement of the lamp being accom- plished by a train of gears between the steering wheel column and the lamp sup- port. The latter consists of a forked rod which extends down through the motor hood in a vertical sleeve supported by a small bracket riveted to the underside. A bevel gear is carried on the bottom of the forked rod. This gear in turn meshes with another bevel on a short horizontal shaft supported by a second bracket bolted to the forward side of the dashboard. The rear end of this shaft carries a pinion which in turn meshes with a split two-part bevel gear slipped over the steering wheel column and adjusted to fit by means of small bolts in the gear collar. In another device for

��former being accomplished through a system of levers attached to the tie bar be- tween the steering knuckles- of the front wheels. Each lamp is carried on a vertical forked rod. This rod has a cone-shaped sleeve fixed to it at about its midpoint which fits into an annular or ring- like end of a lever pivoted sideways onto the vehicle frame or a suitable bracket. The vertical rod carrying the lamp is turned in the ring- like support by means of a horizontal arm attached at its bottom. This arm is moved to right or left by means of a vertical sliding rs^-y yoke bar, the bottom end of jSjj/ which is restrained to move in a slot in a plate bolted to the transverse tie rod between the steering arms of the front wheels.

��accomplishing the same purpose the or- dinary headlights as carried in front of the radiator are made to turn to the right or left as the wheels are turned, the movement of the

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��The vaporizer acts au- tomatically. When the engine stops, the water valve closes and im- mediately stops the flow

��Removing Carbon from Your Automobile Engine with Water

LE. SMITH, of Seattle, has invented a . device which carries water from the jacket or circulation system of an auto- mobile by means of a small tube and forces it into the manifold in the form of spray, thus acting as a complete decarbonizer and at the same time giving extra power to the engine.

From a tube fastened to the jacket the water flows into the device through a needle-valve which regulates the quantity according to requirements. The water vaporizer is tapped to the manifold, and an air valve at the other end supplies the force that forms spray of the water. With the engine running, the needle-valve opens and the water is sucked into the port with the air, mixing as vapor with the gas of the ..r. .r. manifold intake. The

WATER VALVE CONTROLLED. , _^,

BT SPRING A6A1NST suaioN action oi txie vapor- Of MOTOR j^g^ jg entirely auto-

ADJUST1N6 matic. When the engine stops the valve closes.

Water is a good decarbonizer. Hence this device not only removes the carbon but prevents carbon from forming.

���AIR VALVl CONTROLLED BY 5PR1N6 AGAINST 6UaiON Of MOTOR

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