. Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics . Coiton-baling press. Fig. 8. is thrown back to initial position by the expansive force of the compressed hay, providingan empty space in the press-box for receipt of a fresh charge. The bales may be made any- 672 PROJECTILES. where from 1 ft. to 5 ft. long:. With one horse 6 tons, or with two horses 8 tons, may bebaled in a dav. The bales made by these presses load and stow with economy of labor andspace, and iii us
. Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics . Coiton-baling press. Fig. 8. is thrown back to initial position by the expansive force of the compressed hay, providingan empty space in the press-box for receipt of a fresh charge. The bales may be made any- 672 PROJECTILES. where from 1 ft. to 5 ft. long:. With one horse 6 tons, or with two horses 8 tons, may bebaled in a dav. The bales made by these presses load and stow with economy of labor andspace, and iii use the layers of hay are neatly separable. Recent rapid adoption ofhigh-speed, reliable hay-baling presseshas caused a decided change in methodsof handling the great hay crop of thecountry, by making it an extremely avail-able shipping commodity, extending areasof consumption, and steadily shiftingareas of production westward in theUnited States, to the prolific, gniss-growing prairie regions where the broad,level stretches of land are peculiarlysuited to the use of Fig. 9,—Cotton-baling press. Dederick makes a press on the same detail ramming plan, for baling cotton on the home plantationor olsewhore. Its operationis exhibited in Figs. 7, 8, and9. It does away with the usualnecessity of re-[)ressing forocean shipment, as it producesextraordinarily condensedbales, straight-edged and flat-sided, witliout bilge or any ex-pansion wlien released. Ascompared with cotton treatedby tile customary pressing andrepressing, claims are madethat the fiber of the cottonI)ressed in the Dederick press isless crushed, as the detail com-pression admits of a lowermaximum of pressure, andthat the work is more rapidlydoneandis less expensive. Thecapacity of a press is 400 ormore of ? quarter bales average weight of a baleis 125 lbs., and measurement12 X 15 X 30 in. = 5,400 cub. ordinary 500-lb. bales, tobe equally condensed, wouldmeasure but 21,000 cub. in
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