Identifier: pdiaofaencyclo00loudrich (find matches)
Title: An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843
Subjects: Agriculture -- Dictionaries
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ndle on which the wheel n is mounted is a small shifting pinion, r, of 17 cogs (seven inchesdimeter), working into the faced wheel », on which are two rows of cogs, one of 20 and the other ot 31)cogs each. On the same axis as the faced wheel j is a bevel wheel, t, of 20 cogs (eight inches diameter). 1324 ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF AGRICULTURE. SUPPLEMENT. uorking Into the wheela If. and v of 40 cogs (sixteen inches diameter), on the lower feeding roller spindle ;these t» wheels arc not fixed on the tplndle. but revolve freely on turned parts of the shaft, and givemotion to it uy meant f the clutch and handle, w. when the machine is at work the clutch is in the wheel r. giving to the feeding rollen the required motion; should it he nece»sary to stop the rollers,the handle u> la moved from the feeding board, and the clutch disengaged from the wheel v. shouldthe handle he moved farther from the feeding hoard, the clutch is thrown into the wheel u, and therollers turn the reverse way.
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R20r,. The wmnotring machine under the shakers is driven by a sheave on the drum axis, and a ropoleading to a sheave on the fanner spindle ; to dress the grain thoroughly, it is conveyed from thismachine, and passes through two winnowing machines, one placed above the other: this is effected bymeans of a canvass cloth, on which are strips of wood half an inch in thickness ; the cloth revolves ontwo rollers, and is set in motion by a rope leading from a sheave on the shaft i to a sheave on the upperroller spindle. As it is ahsolutely necessary to have a steady and uniform motion to produce the best possible samplefrom a winnowing machine, and as the velocity of the threshing machine is subject to vary, from irregularfeeding and other causes, the winnowing or dressing machines are set in motion by a small water-wheel,*, five feet diameter, on the axis of which is a bevel wheel, twenty inches in diameter, working into apinion on an inclined shaft, y. On the upper end of the shaft y is a

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