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The lips of the tube are then drawn together until there is about one- 

 sixteenth of an inch of free space at each corner. 



Belt conveyer. — The belt conveyer used in removing the cheese as 

 it leaves the attachment is .shown in fig. 11. It is a rectangular- 

 shaped box, 20 inches long, 6 inches wide, and 4f inches deep, with 

 the ends and top removed. Five bearings fit into the notches on one 

 side and holes on the other side in two strips of iron fastened to the 

 upper edges of the two open ends of the box. A 3i-inch canvas belt 

 runs snugly though not tightly upon the rollers. The materials re- 

 quired are two pieces of maple 4f inches wide, one-half inch thick and 

 20 inches long ; four oak rollers 4f inches long and If inches in diam- 

 eter; one oak roller 4f inches long and 1^ inches in diameter. The 

 rollers have a one-sixteenth-inch clearance and are beveled one-eighth 

 of an inch from bearing to outer face. In addition, two 20-inch stri])s 



Belt convej'er. 



of galvanized iron 1 inch wide and one-eighth of an inch thick are 

 needed. In both ends of one of these strips of iron there are four 

 outward-slanting notches which are one-half inch deep and one-eighth 

 inch wide, and evenly spaced between the ends there are three addi- 

 tional vertical notches of the same size. There are 11 one-eighth-inch 

 hojes in the second iron strip, corresponding to, parallel with, and of 

 the same height as the bottom of the notches of the first strip. The 

 boards and strips of iron are joined together by means of screws. 



Cheese cutter. — A cheese cutter consists of a rectangular frame- 

 w^ork of poplar over which 7 fine wires are drawn. (See fig. 12.) 

 The wires are fastened by means of iron pegs or screws to the outer 

 edge of two half-inch strips 15 inches long. The strips are 5 inches 

 apart, parallel, and are supported by 3 vertical pieces of wood 

 5 inches long, 3 inches wide, and one-half inch thick. Each of these 



