Early Louden Litter Carrter
Later Litter Carrier
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The Louden Litter Carriers
The first patent ever issued on a litter carrier is held by the Louden Machinery Company
The Litter Carriers saved farmers considerable time in moving manure from the barn to the manure wagon outside. The carrier rotated to dump the manure into a manure-wagon stationed outside the barn. Overhead tracks enabled the carrier to be moved around the barn.
Latter models featured pulleys and chains which allowed the carrier to be lowered to the barn floor to be loaded, and raised again to be moved.
A factory owner saw one of these at a barn trade-show and decided to buy one for his factory during WWI, and used it as a scrap bin to move metal shavings away from his milling machines.
Louden took this idea and developed the carriers into industrial overhead cranes, and a new Louden division was born. Louden overhead cranes are still being produced today by Louden's succesor.
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