. Farm implements, and the principles of their construction and use; an elementary and familiar treatise on mechanics, and on natural philosophy generally, as applied to the ordinary practices of agriculture ... THE KNEE-JOINT POWER. ies which is furnished with knives set around it parallelwith its axis, and cutting on the other, which is cover-ed with untanned ox-hide (Fig: 144). The only de-Fig. Fig 146. feet in this machine is its inability to cut shorter thanone inch in length, which is not sufficient for corn-stalks and other coarse fodder. Dicks Cheese-press (Fig. 145,on the follow
. Farm implements, and the principles of their construction and use; an elementary and familiar treatise on mechanics, and on natural philosophy generally, as applied to the ordinary practices of agriculture ... THE KNEE-JOINT POWER. ies which is furnished with knives set around it parallelwith its axis, and cutting on the other, which is cover-ed with untanned ox-hide (Fig: 144). The only de-Fig. Fig 146. feet in this machine is its inability to cut shorter thanone inch in length, which is not sufficient for corn-stalks and other coarse fodder. Dicks Cheese-press (Fig. 145,on the following page) operates ona similar principle. Figure 146shows the structure of its workingpart, the dotted lines indicating theposition of the lever, which is in-serted into a roller or axle, and, byturning, drives the movable ironblocks asunder, and raises thecheese against the broad screw-head above, as shown in Fig. 145. In Fig. 146, theraised lever shows that the blocks are at first near to-gether, but are crowded asunder as the lever is press-ed downward. This cheese-press is made of cast-iron,
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