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FARMERS' REGISTER, 



47. 



end to end on its curved surface. It is so hung, 

 by means of a strap, or chain, as that it may re- 

 cede li'oni the trough, when too great a quanti- 

 ty of clothes may be between them, and also (o 

 admit of its continued pressure upon them. Tlie 

 rubber is to be made to vibrate by means of a 

 handle. Tlic claims are to "the tbrni and appli- 

 cation of the rul')ber, or interior cylinder — the mode 

 of suspending and operating tfie rubber, and the 

 application of the strap, or chain, whereby the 

 pressure is regulated, and the rubber allowed to 

 yield." 



For a Machine for Breaking and Cultivating 

 Sward Ground; Guy Gray, Industry, Somerset 

 county, Maine, September 18. 



A square Irame is made to contain a roller, like 

 that used for rolling ground, and a tongue is at- 

 tached to the frame to draw it by. The roller, as 

 described, is lour teet long, and is set with teeth in 

 twelve rows, containing, alternately, five and six in 

 a row; the teeth, which are pointed, are seven inches 

 long, but curved so as not to project more than six 

 inches from the roller. There are teeth, also, on 

 the back rail of the frame, so set as to allow the 

 roller to pass between them. The patentee says, 

 that when this is "drawn over the closest sward 

 land, it breaks it more thoroughly than any other 

 machine known to him, so that the ground may 

 be afterwards ploughed with less than half the 

 strength of team otherwise required, whilst it is 

 left in'a much better state for cultivation." 



There is not any claim made; the whole must, 

 therefore, be considered as new, or the patent can- 

 not be sustained. 



For a Plough for Cultivating Cora and Pota- 

 toes; Peter Stahl, and John Difienbacher, Tur- 

 but (ownship, Northumberland county, Pennsyl- 

 vania, September 18. 



This instrument is made in the form of what is 

 commonly called a cultivator, and is flirnished 

 with six shares, affixed to standards twenty inches 

 in length, for the purpose of mounting the beams 

 high up above the ground. For the particular 

 form of the shares, the model is, incorrectly, re- 

 ferred to. The following is the claim. 



"The shares, or mould-boards, which are each 

 cast in one piece, and forming a coulter, share, 

 and mould-board. The high standards, which 

 carry ihe plough beams so far above the corn, or 

 potatoes, as not to break it down so long as it needs 

 cultivating. The [)lacing these in such a manner 

 as to plough, or cultivate, both sides of a single 

 row of corn, or potatoes, at one and the same time 

 of going over the same." 



For a Machine for Planting Cotton; Robert S. 

 Goodman, Ballsville, Powhatan county, Virginia, 

 September 18. 



This is one of those classes of machines, the 

 individuals of which can scarcely fail of exhibiting 

 a strong resemblance to each other. They run 

 upon wheels, which are fixed on a revolving shaft, 

 or axle; they carry a hopper, into which the seed 

 is put, and which falls through an aperture regu- 

 lated by the revolving axle. There is a share in 

 front of the machine, to open a furrow, and a scra- 

 per behind, to cover the seed. These are gene- 

 ral elements, which are common to all, and are 

 common property; what; is left, therefore, to inge- 

 nuity, or fancy, is to devise those minor arrange- 



ments upon whtch the more or less perfect action 

 of the machine is dependent, and which have usu- 

 ally too little of originality, or skill, to render it 

 worth while to follow them out, and such we 

 think the case in the present instance. The claims 

 are to "the manner of using the wheel at the 

 |)erf()ration at the bottom of the hojjper. The re- 

 volving shaft, with the pin, or pins, and conduc- 

 tors, attached to it, to be set in motion in the man- 

 lier described." 



For a Machine for shelling Corn; James S. 

 Harris, Poultney, Riuland county, Vermont, Sep- 

 tember 18. 



We apprehend that this will prove to be one of 

 the least valuable of all the corn shelling ma- 

 chines, from its being inconvenient and laborious 

 to operate with, whilst h will not be recommended 

 by its efficiency. It consists of a fixed rubbing 

 board, set with teeth, or otherwise furnished with 

 projecting points, and a movable rubbing board, 

 to be worked up and down by a lever, which is 

 moved by the right, whilst the feeding is to be 

 performed by the left hand. No other provisions 

 are spoken of, nor is any claim made. 



For a Cradle and blowing Machine; Edward 

 Badlam, Jr., Chester, Windsor county, Vermont, 

 September 18. 



By means of a face cog wheel on the inside of 

 one of the wheels upon which the machine runs, 

 motion is given to a horizontal shaft, the opposite 

 end of which gears into a bevilled pinion on a 

 vertical shaft, which sustains scythes, revolving 

 horizontally. Small wheels on the underside of 

 the fixtures of these scythes, run upon the ground, 

 and serve to raise them over knolls, whilst springs 

 above them keep them in their places; the grass^ 

 or grains is received upon fingers, which conduct 

 to a rack. 



The claim is to "the springs, with the fixtures 

 for enabling the scythes to pass over small knolls; 

 the fingers and the rack, for the purpose of catch- 

 ing and laying the grass and grain, after being cut 

 by the scythes." 



For machinery for Cutting and Collecting the 

 Heads of Grain, and Grasses; Jacob Peck, and 

 Daniel Ashmore, Jefferson county, Tennessee^ 

 September 18. 



The machine is intended to be driven forward 

 like a wheelbarrow, when grass seeds are to be col- 

 lected; for the heads of grain, horses are to be em- 

 ployed to drive the apparatus, which, in its general 

 form, resembles a cart. The machine must be 

 mounted upon wheels of such iieight as will suit 

 the grain, or grass, the seeds of which are to be 

 collected. The heads, as the machine advances, 

 are to be received between a row of lancet shaped 

 knives, flat on the top, and bevilled to a sharp edge 

 fi'om below. Fingers of wood, or of metal, may 

 also project forward, the better to guide the heads 

 to the knives. Above the knives there is a kind 

 of revolving reel, set in motion by bands and 

 whirls, connected with the running wheels of the 

 carriage; this reel, or open cylinder, carries knives, 

 which come nearly into contact with the row of 

 fixed knives befiire spoken of, which cut off the 

 heads of the grain, or grass. There are various 

 appendages to, and modifications of, this machine, 

 described in the specification, which we cannot 

 wait to notice. 



