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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is a pinion, h, of lfi cogs (ten inches diameter), drivingthe wheel G, of 49 cogs (two feet four inches diameter), in the axis of one of the lower crushers: the SUITl F.MF.NT. SCIENCE AND ART OF AGRICULTURE. 13 2i upper pair of crushers are driven by the wheel G. working into a wheel, 7, in the upper crush or spindle.The crushing rollers are set to or from each other as the nature of the work may require. When thebones are large, the upper pair of crushers only are used in passing the bones the hrst time through, aninclined board being placed to prevent them from falling into the lower set; this board is removed atthe second time of grinding, and the bones pass through the two sets and fall into the revolving circularscreen 16 : any bones that will not pass through the mesh of the screen are again put into the mill. Thescreen is set in motion by the wheel 6, working into a pinion not shown in the drawing, and by a shaftand universal joint connecting with the axis of the screen. 1166 1
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On the shaft 2 is a bevel wheel, 8, of 46 cogs (twenty-one inches diameter), driving the pinion 9, of 16cogs (nine inches diameter), on an inclined shaft leading to the floor above ; on th- upper end ol thisshaft is a bevel wheel, 10, of 52 cogs (twenty inches diameter), driving a pinion, 11, of 17 cogs (nine inchesdiameter), on the spindle of the chaff-cutting machine. When the threshing machine only is at work, the mitre wheel k is thrown out of geer by the liftingscrew 12 : the pinion on the flour mill spindle is raised above the spur wheel g by the screw 13. When the threshing machine is not at work, the mitre wheel lis thrown out of geer by tne liftingsere* 14. I3_>n ENCYCLOPEDIA OK AGRICULTURE. SUPPLEMENT. The pinion :t la kopt in its place on the shaft 2 by a key ; when tin: bone-mill is not at work, the pinionit slitled along the- shaft clear of the wheel 4. There are three cogs dovetailed into the pinion !>; when the chaff-cutting machine is not at work,these CMS are re

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