. Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics . FiQ. .5, 6.—Kents flanging-machine. FLAX-MACHINES. 367 lows the wood to fall out, and also prevents the outer skin from becoming crushed or cut. asis the case with the needle-points, or the series of fluted rollers—run at a high speed—ot othermachines The fiber then passes to the second part of the machine, as illustrated herewith,which somewhat resembles an intersecting heckling-maehine. The strike of flax
. Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics . FiQ. .5, 6.—Kents flanging-machine. FLAX-MACHINES. 367 lows the wood to fall out, and also prevents the outer skin from becoming crushed or cut. asis the case with the needle-points, or the series of fluted rollers—run at a high speed—ot othermachines The fiber then passes to the second part of the machine, as illustrated herewith,which somewhat resembles an intersecting heckling-maehine. The strike of flax is se-cured between a pair of India-rubber gripping-rollers C C, which bring it into contact witha pair of rapidly revolving beaters D D\ After this operation has gone on for a given timethe beaters are caused to revolve in the opposite direction, the gnpping-roUers 6 C and^ ^are respectively automatically opened and closed in the interval by means of cam-bars i Fand the cams G and levers //. In this manner both ends of the strike are sufficiently operated. Fig. 1, 2.—Spiegelberg flax-scutching machine upon before they are allowed to proceed downward to the delivery roller J J\ and thenceto the delivery-apron K. L is the first-motion shaft, carrying fast and loose pulleys, con-nected with siniilar pulleys on the shaft M, from which the beaters are driven, ihe taking-mrollers 5 B^ derive motion from suitable gearing iV, which is so constructed as to allow itseltto become automatically disengaged upon the reversal of the machine. The principal partof the process, however, is that involved in the breaking-machine, which can not be substi-tuted by hand or other process, while the cleaning might be done in the ordinary way : infact when the flax is well retted the breaking is done so completely that a little handlingcleans the fiber entirely from all show. The two machines may be worked separately. It isobvious that, the fiber being uninjured, there is a much larger
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