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GLEANlNCiS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 1. 



would work. Since then he has put It into 

 practical application, and describesit as follows: 



This extractor was 

 built last spring, 

 and has e.xtracted 

 44,000 lbs. of honey, 

 reversing in full mo- 

 tion without injury 

 to the combs or ma- 

 chine. We found it 

 quite a saving of 

 time to be able to 

 reverse the eight 

 baskets in one in- 

 stant by simply rais- 

 ing the lever shown 

 above the machine: 

 but I do not think 

 it would amount 

 to very much with 

 a small machine, as 

 they are so easy to 

 stop and start. I 

 built this machine 

 largely to show my 

 faith in the princi- 

 ple : but when I 

 found that it work- 

 ed so well I was al- 

 most tempted to get 

 it patented. 



The engraving 

 shows the inside 

 gear connected with 

 the water - motor. 

 The water is turn- 

 ed on and off by rais- 

 ing and lowering the 

 large lever at the 



right. The motor makes about 5.50 revolutions 

 per minute, and the speed is geared down 3 to 1. 

 The center-shaft is l>8-inch cold-rolled steel 

 shafting, with a ball bearing at the lower end, 

 and a babbited box near the upper end. On 



the upper end of this shaft is a 4-inch iron 

 wheel with a 2-inch face. A band of iron 2 

 inches wide and Jg 

 thick, with a piece 

 of tliick leather riv- 

 eted on the side 

 next the wheel, fas- 

 tened at one end. 

 and passing almost 

 around the wheel, 

 and terminating in 

 a piece of %■ gas- 

 pipe about 2 feet 

 long makes a splen- 

 did brake. 



The hubs which 

 support the arms 

 are cast iron, and 

 the arms are screw- 

 ed into them. The 

 arms are ^^ gaspipe, 

 ^ outside. A gas- 

 pipe T,with a flange 

 cast on each side to 

 fasten the heavy 

 wire braces to, furn- 

 ishes the bearing for 

 the axle of the bas- 

 kets. This basket- 

 axle is ,?< round iron, 

 and the baskets are 

 fastened to it by 

 means of a mal- 

 leable casting that 

 runs around the top 

 and bottom of the 

 baskets, and is held 

 FIG. 1. in place by a set- 



screw. The edges of 

 the baskets are No. 23 galvanized iron, with a 

 flange turned over the ends of the folded tin 

 braces that support the wire cloth. Near the 

 lower end of each basket-axle is a 5-inch 

 sprocket-wheel fastened with a set-screw. A 



FIG. 2.— m'intyre's automatic reversible extractor. 



