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Dederick's Improved Hay Presses. 

 Fig. 1. 



Tiik annexed engravings represent the appearance and construction of an improved press 

 adapted for packing hay, cotton, hops, hemp, &c, for which two patents have been reoently 

 granted to Levi I »<< Ici'nk, of Albany, Now York. One patent is for an improvement on the 

 doors of the press, and the other is for an improvement in operating the follower, giving it a 

 parallel motion, while pressing, by toggle-levers. 



Tht l><u,ra. — A is the Oase or box in which the cotton, hay. or other artiele to be pressed is 

 placed. It has a trap-door B B, and a side-door ('. The cotton or hay is placrd in the Case 



through the top-opening. The side door, especially, requires to be very securely fastened to 

 i the great pressure thai comes upon it. This door is secured to a stile h. having a 

 small round tenon at eaoh end. These lit loosely in recesses In the top and bottom pie 

 of the frame. To this stile, and also to tho door 0, are secured two arms or battens e c, the 

 outer ends of which project a short distance beyond the edge of the doorC. Bis a stile 



attached to the top :iml hottom pieces, like the one at I), hut not to the door. This stile B has 

 recesses <l </, whioh, when the door is closed, tit over the end of the battens t 0. V 18 an arm 

 or lever attached to the stile E by a pivot when the door is closed; the outer end of this arm 

 or lever is fitted in a recess in the stile. The door (' is thus made perfectly secure; tho 

 outer ends of Imttens ,- ,• fitting in the recesses <7 il, and the outer end of the bar h\ei tin 



iii the reoess/ To unfasten the door, raise tho outer end of V from the recess ''. and turn 



the Stile !'. around till the end of the hattens clear the recesses d d. This door is for dis- 



oharging tin mpressed material, hay, ootton, fito. The top'door, when olosed, is secured 



by a barQ, which i^ attache. 1 hy a bridge to the front edge of the door. The har.i- provided 

 at each end with a flange h to catch in the top side-pieces j i of the frame, and thi-^ -.euros 

 the top dour on the hay OX OOttoii when the case is full for pressing. Hy raising the lever II 

 to a vcrtic il position, the bar <! i- turned so as to free the flanges h h from the caps i /, and 

 the door can he opened. 



The Levers. — The follower presses horizontally in the case A; it is not seen, but sullice it 



