SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



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about the same proportion, and this is admirably effected by the 

 toggle joint. The "Scientific American" remarks: 



Oy.stun's PIerki.mek Couistt Cheese 1'kess. 



" This principle has long been well understood, and extensively applied in 

 large establlHliments, but it has been strangely neglected in small presses for 

 common purposes, as the pressing of cheeses. The annexed engraving repre- 

 sents a press in which the toggle joint is combined with the compound lever 



