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787 - Motor-Driven Apple Grading Machine of High Capacity {i).— The Scientific Ame- 

 rican, V^ol. CXIV, No. 15, p. 3 85. New York, April 8, 1916. 

 The new apple-grading machine shown in the accompanying figure 

 is operated by motor power and has a capacity varying from 40 to 60 bar- 

 rels per hour. The apples can be graded in seven difterent sizes from 2 ^ 

 inches up to 4 I/2 in. in diameter, each size varj'ing one quarter of an inch. 

 The principle on which the grader is designed and constructed is very 



Mechanical Apple Grader. 



simple. It is an endless belt with plates forming hollow squares which 

 change their size as they travel towards the end of the grader. The varia- 

 tion in the size of the squares is accomplished by the spreading of he 

 belts. 



7S8 - A Tractor for the Garden. — Farm Imphment News, Vol. XXXVIi, No. 1 7, p. 53- 



Chicago, 111., April 27, i<ji6. 



The accompanying illustration shows the garden tractor constructed 

 by the Becman Garden Tractor Company of Minneapolis. Minn. U. S. It 

 develops nearly three horse-power, the pull on the drawbar being a little 



(i) See alsoB. Juue 1914, No. 560. 



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