The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 112
performed by one machine, the brooms and scrapers being attached to thesame frame : but it was found, on trial, that either operation rendered theroad sufficiently clean; and Mr. Boase accordingly made distinct machinesfor each purpose, of which the following is his description : — The Sci-aper… … iron one, placed under the centre of the front bar of the frame. Below theframe, and obliquely to it, is placed the flexible scraper, consisting of anumber of plates of sheet-iron, arranged in a line, and connected to eachother by small bolts. On the back of each plate is bolted a piece of iron,in…
