The Farmer's magazine . in perspective of the improved machine, and a transverse section shewing the position of thecutfers. It consists of a stock a />, fig. 1, two feetten inches long, and about (J inches hroad, formedof two pieces of hard wood connected hy an ironhar a c, which is repeated on the opposite edge,and the whole bolted together as in the two pieces forming the stock being withdrawnfrom each other so far as to leave a rectangularopening bounded on the two ends by the pieces ofthe stock, and on the two sides by the iron bars,which, to the extent of the opening,
The Farmer's magazine . in perspective of the improved machine, and a transverse section shewing the position of thecutfers. It consists of a stock a />, fig. 1, two feetten inches long, and about (J inches hroad, formedof two pieces of hard wood connected hy an ironhar a c, which is repeated on the opposite edge,and the whole bolted together as in the two pieces forming the stock being withdrawnfrom each other so far as to leave a rectangularopening bounded on the two ends by the pieces ofthe stock, and on the two sides by the iron bars,which, to the extent of the opening, are thinnedoff to a sharp edge, and thus form the two exteriorcutters d e, as seen in the section, fig. 2. Thestock is supported at a height of two feet uponfour legs. Two cutter blocks,/and g, are appended. to the stock by mortice and tenon at the respectiveends of the .opening, and are further secured by the bolts of the side bars. Into these blocks theremaining cutters, /* h and i i, are inserted in cor-responding pairs, and also secured by bolts. Thecutters thus arranged, forma cradle-shaped recep-tacle, into which the turnip is laid to be sliced, k Iis a lever jointed on a bolt at A:, and armed with ablock m, studded on its lower face with ironknobs, and which fits loosely into the receptacle. In operating with this machine, the workmantakes hold of the lever at I with the right hand,and having raised it sufficiently high, throws aturnip into the receptacle with the left; the leveris immediately brought down by the right hand,the knobs preventing the turnip from sliding back-ward or forward, and the force of the hand uponthe lever pushing the turnip against the edge ofthe cutters, separates it into slices by one cradle-shaped arrangement of the cutters formthe principal pa
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