MANUFACTURED PEAT. 



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issuing part into turves with a sharp instrument. The elevator 

 and macerating cylinder are driven by a locomobile m, and they 

 both stand on a frame .4 B, which can be moved by means 

 of small wheels along a tramway as the digging-ground 

 advances. The plank d is taken with the turves on it to 

 the drying-ground, and turned over carefully, and then 

 brought back to the machine. This mode of preparing 

 turves has been employed extensively, both in North and 

 South Germany. 



(iii.) Mecke and Sanders, of Oldenburg, have constructed 

 a machine consisting of a long steel girder (30 metres) A B 



I-'i'j-. loo. Mivkr and Saixlars' machine. 



(Fig. 400) resting on a car IF and a wheel y which run on rails 

 or boards parallel to the peat-cutting C, and placed at a proper 

 distance from it. a a is the machine for cutting the peat, and 

 can be placed higher or lower, according to the depth of the 

 cutting. It is self-regulating to avoid impediments in the 

 peat, roots, etc., and cuts the peat with the saw teeth of 

 a dredger, in thin vertical strips. The turf is elevated by an 

 endless chain, attached to the dredging sections, into the 

 mixing apparatus b. The latter is an iron cylinder containing 

 two rotating axles provided with a projecting screw, which 

 mix up uniformly all the turf coming from different depths 

 and press the homogeneous peaty paste through a wide open- 

 ing on to the distributing apparatus c c c. The distributing 

 apparatus consists of a chain stretched over two rollers, m n, 



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