MANUFACTURED PEAT. 



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each side of the vessel, and in favourable weather they dry 

 rapidly with a considerable shrinkage. This turf can be used 

 not only as ordinary fuel, but also in the manufacture of glass 

 and porcelain, it must then be dried in kilns. Gysser has 

 invented hand-machines of a similar description to the above, 

 as represented in Figs. 396 and 397, and capable of turning 

 out 2,500 to 3,000 turves in a day. These hand-machines 

 have the advantage over that of Schlickeysen, of saving the 

 transport of the wet peat, besides saving fuel, and can be 



:'%. Gysser's machine for 

 pressing peat. 



Fig. 31)7. Section 

 of Fig. 390. 



worked on the bog ; at the same time, they are not applicable 

 in the case of very fibrous peat, or where there are many roots. 

 Gysser dried the peat in an excellent manner in portable 

 drying sheds, consisting of frames like hurdles placed one 

 above the other, and covered with a roof. 



(ii.) Method of Grotjahn-Peau. Figs. 398 and 399 show 

 the machinery constructed by G. Krauss & Co., of Munich. 



The elevator a b (Fig. 398) raises the irregularly shaped 

 pieces of peat to b, where they fall into a bin c, and hence 

 into the horizontal macerating machine, the interior of which 

 is shown in Fig. 399. This is of somewhat similar construc- 

 tion to Schlickeysen's vessel containing a moveable axle with 



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