Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 439
iaft rotates, and inso doing carries the stems into the plants,and then into the compartments of the ma-chine. In connection witli tlie stems a re-versing gear is arrangcil, so tliat the stemsare made to turn on their own axes, pointsforward, while in the plants, and in a reversedirection when they… … Flo. 4 —Mason cotton-liarvester—plan. it to the rear, where it engages with elevator-belts, and these in turn carry it upward anddeliver it into the bags hung on the rear of the machine. The machine is drawn by a horseor mule, and as it passes over the rows of plants the stems are carried backward…
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