The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . This IS the most efficient Machine that has been invented fortiie pm-pose of making Drain Tiles. Any shaped Tile can bemade by merely changing the die, which can be done in a fewminutes. It requires but few hands, viz., one man and threeboys. With this amount of labour, the product of a day of 10hours is as follows, viz.:— 1 inch diameter of Tile, 11,000 I IJ inches diam. of Tile, 5,800H ». „ S,000 I SA „ „ 3,200- V See Letter of Thomas Law Hodges, Esq., in the Transac-tions of the Royal Agi-icultural Society of England, page 551-Part 2, vol.
The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . This IS the most efficient Machine that has been invented fortiie pm-pose of making Drain Tiles. Any shaped Tile can bemade by merely changing the die, which can be done in a fewminutes. It requires but few hands, viz., one man and threeboys. With this amount of labour, the product of a day of 10hours is as follows, viz.:— 1 inch diameter of Tile, 11,000 I IJ inches diam. of Tile, 5,800H ». „ S,000 I SA „ „ 3,200- V See Letter of Thomas Law Hodges, Esq., in the Transac-tions of the Royal Agi-icultural Society of England, page 551-Part 2, vol. 5. The Macliine is moveable down the drjing-sheds, so that itrequires no extra boys to can*y the Tiles, nor ai-e shelvesrequii-ed in drjing. It has been in full operation for upwardsof fom-months at Hempstead Park, near Cranbrook, Kent. Nocharge made for Patent dues or license. The pm-chase of theMachine includes free use of A INSLTES PATENT DRAI N IN G-T ILE ?^ MACHINES AND DRYING These machines are of two sizes. No. 1. Worked by hand,by one man or two boys, and capable of producing from 5000to 7000 di-ain-tiles, 15 inches in length, and 2i by 3 inches inte-rior diameter, or pipes of 2i inches interior diameter, per of the machine, at the manufactory, including mouldsfor tiles and pipes, ZOl. No. 2. To be worked by one horse, orby steam or water-power, and capable of producing 14,000 to20,000 drain-tiles and pipes, of the above dimensions, per of the machine, at the manufactoiy, including mouldsfor tiles and pipes, Sol. The machine, slightly altered, alsomakes bricks equally well. By these machines, draining-tiles and pipes of the most per-fect form are produced at a much cheaper rate than by anyother process hitherto invented. The cost of making tiles of2^ by 3 inches, of 15 inches in length, including royalty, variesfrom 2ff. to 3s., or 3s. Gd. per 1000, accoiding to cir
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