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couple of hours, wash and grade enough apples for a day's ran, and is 

 then free for other work. ,Sinee the floor of the bin has a slight inclina- 

 tion toward the chute, the apples pass by gravity from the bin into the 

 chutes, keeping them filled so long as there are apples in the bin, and 

 the parers have only to open the sliding doors for a moment to fill their 

 apple^ boxes as these become empty. This arrangement is not sho-\ra in 

 the floor plans, since it would make the drawings rather complicated, 

 but it is diagrammatically represented in Figures VIII. and IX. The 

 small apples are collected from the grader into boxes or barrels, and are 

 worked up separately when a sufficient quantity has been collected. 



The shafting which drives parers, conveyors, and grader is suspended 

 from the joists, and 12 inches below them, so as not to interfere with 



Fig. X. — Sectional View of Plant, showing Arrangement of Conveyors. 



1, paring table. 2, position of paring machines. 3, endless belt conveyor for 

 pared apples. 4, elevator from end of paring table to hopper of 5, blcaelier. 

 6, sulphur chamber of bleacher. 7, pipe of bleacher, opening into 9, flue of 

 furnace. 8, slicer. 10, storage bin. 11, kiln. 



free movem.ent around the work table. The apple waste conveyor is 

 six inches wide, and runs in the bottom of a trough 7 inches wide and 



4 inches deep, raised 6 inches above the top of the table, as shown in 

 Figure X. This elevation of the apple conveyor above the table has 

 two advantages, the peels and cores do not fall into it, as would be the 

 case if it ran at the level of the table, also, apples upon it are visible 

 from any part of the room, and it is impossible for a trimmer to do 

 careless work without being detected. The top of the table is slightly 

 inclined — a drop of 1 inch in Z^ feet is sufficient — ^toward the side at 

 which the trimmers sit, which is faced with a 1 s 2 strip projecting 



5 inch above the edge. The pared apples drop frcan the forks of the 

 machines and roll do<wn the slight incline, beneath the conveyor, to the 



