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 893
Fio. -Pitts thresher. the descending stream of grain, to retard its upper stratum wlienever it runs thicker thana determined gauge, while the shake-table uninterruptedly proj)els the lower stratum at aconstant rate of speed into the thresher. A gang of half-moon vibrating knives cut thebands of the… … Fig. 8.—Thresher and bagger. Appleby type, driven by one knotter shaft and one needle sliaft for both, by a chain beltfrom the neighboring shaker spindle of a thresher. When the thresher presents sufficientthreshed straw to fill the binder receptacles and trip either knotter, both are tripped…
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