Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . Potato-Scoop. Potato-Masker. at eqnal distances on an iron frame, which is attachedto a wooden handle and acts as a screen in shovelingpotatoes or other roots. Po-tato-sepa-rator. An implement usedfor the purpose of sorting the tubers in sizes ; forfeed, market, seed, etc. One form consists of three screens with meshes ofdifierent sizes, spouts conducting to sep
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . Potato-Scoop. Potato-Masker. at eqnal distances on an iron frame, which is attachedto a wooden handle and acts as a screen in shovelingpotatoes or other roots. Po-tato-sepa-rator. An implement usedfor the purpose of sorting the tubers in sizes ; forfeed, market, seed, etc. One form consists of three screens with meshes ofdifierent sizes, spouts conducting to separate recep-tacles the tubers detained by each screen. Another form is a revolving drum, which has dif-ferent sized meshes at different parts of its length. Po-tato-washer. For washing potatoes inlarge quantity for feed or starch-making, they are[ilaced in a slatted cylinder which is rotated by ahand-crank, the a.\is Fig.
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