FOR AMERICAN VINES. 



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The Guyot gin is one of the simplest and most practical ; 

 its cost is only 34, the carrying wheels cost 4, the plough 

 28, the cable, of 274 yards, 10. 



VERNETTE'S HORSE-GIN. 



The gin designed and made by Etienne Vernette, of 

 Beziers, is worked like those of Grue or Bourguignon, by dis- 

 placement on rails along the headland. 



Description. it is composed of a winding drum 23 J inches 

 in diameter (Fig. 18). This drum revolves round a strong 



Fig-. 18 Vernette's Horse-gin. 



steel shaft keyed on a cast-iron cross, bolted under a cast-iron 

 bed-plate. There is no framework, therefore the cable can 

 take any direction. The bottom flange of the drum is 

 countersunk in the bed-plate, which prevents the cable, 

 when winding up, from being caught under the drum. The 

 whole machine is carried by four massive rollers. The 

 socket-head for the two poles runs loose on the same shaft 

 as the drum ; the drum and the socket-head are clamped 

 together by means of two cotters. When the cotters are in 

 place, the animals wind up the drum in their circular 

 motion ; when taken out, the drum is disconnected, and the 

 weight of the socket acts as a brake during the unwinding. 



