Show UNHITCH ANIMALS IN HURRY device in dam barn at pennsyl Pen neyl vania vanla Co colliery Illery which was meana means cf of saving many mule mules when a bam barn catches fire the matter of savins saving the horses and muke Is a roost most serious problem rapidity of the blaze the panic of the animals and tho the confusion make the release difficult sometimes impossible says popular mechanics A device has been installed in the barn at a colliery in pennsylvania which was mas the means ot of saving the lives of 43 mules in a recent fire A wrought iron tron gas pipe la l 41 inch in diameter was mas passed through all the stalls from one end of the barn to the other and supported on the front of the stalls in each stall a seven inch ro rod passes through the pipe its lower end being bent to a hook with ith the point resting in a slight depression in n the manger apt plan of instantaneous unhitching device the baiter halter strap rinar Is hooked over this A quarter turn of a handle at either end of the pipe turns the hooks books back and the rings drop off releasing all the animals in the barn simultaneously |