. Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics . Fig. 6.—Staclcer at worli. 862 TllKESHING MACHINES. ous. This attachment is provided with a row of belts which intercept the sheaves of graindelivered by a man with a pitchfork haphazard into the receiver, down the shake-table ofwhich they are propelled by raking teeth fixed to its surface. This surface has a recip-rocating movement longitudinally. A row of spring-teeth is adjustably suspended above. Fio. -Pitts thr
. Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics . Fig. 6.—Staclcer at worli. 862 TllKESHING MACHINES. ous. This attachment is provided with a row of belts which intercept the sheaves of graindelivered by a man with a pitchfork haphazard into the receiver, down the shake-table ofwhich they are propelled by raking teeth fixed to its surface. This surface has a recip-rocating movement longitudinally. A row of spring-teeth is adjustably suspended above. Fio. -Pitts thresher. the descending stream of grain, to retard its upper stratum wlienever it runs thicker thana determined gauge, while the shake-table uninterruptedly proj)els the lower stratum at aconstant rate of speed into the thresher. A gang of half-moon vibrating knives cut thebands of the sheaves from above. It is made at Racine, Wis. Trusser, for Threshing Machines.—Fig. 12 is a pair of twine-binding machines, of the
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