Show INVENTS DEVICE TO CLEAN PIPES Water W ter Works Superintendent Has Novel Apparatus For Getting Debris Out of Mains Special to The Provo May S Sj J M Holdaway su superintendent superintendent of the city water works worl has Invented and now has in use by bythe bythe bythe the department a device for cutting the roots and generally clearing debris from water and drain pipes piper which is thought to be superior to anything of or orthe the kind previously In use It consists of two tto bands of spring steel with sharpened edges facing racIng In opposite i directions and to transverse i bands of ot the same material the whole resembling re a loose mesh basket in the shape of a large football This is operated In this manner A Along Along Along long light line is to one on end endor of or the device deice and the end of this at attached attached lt to a float which follows the thc th current of or the pipe stream from Crom man manhole manhole manhole hole to manhole When he float reaches the opening below belo where it was start started started started ed a heavier line is attached at ached to tho th device deIce and to this a horse is hitched pulling the cleaner through the pipe I The sharpened edge of ot the steel band cuts the roots and other accumulations accumulations from the pipe Should the clean cleaner er stuck a backward ward pull re results results suIts In cutting both ways removing the obstacle So far the device d vice has worked very ve successfully and will be patented p tented |