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This defect is by no means so considerable in a flat-reel, 

 which cannot, in any one turn, either receive or furnish 

 less than doul le the length of its own width, though it cer- 

 tainly augments in power as the line accumulates upon it. 



The multiplier without doubt remedies the inconveni- 

 ence alluded to, so far 4s relates to bringing in a larger 

 portion of line ; but the defect in the principle remains 

 the same ; it bthig obvious, that a revolution round the 

 bare axis, cannot draw in near so much as a revolution* 

 round the barrel, when nearly filled with line. 



This evil is incurable m any barrel-reel, but may be 

 palliated, by making such a reel as may be capable of 

 winding the line up much faster than the multiply ing- reel 

 now in use ; which, however, does something, because 

 it gives nearly three turns of the barrel for one of the 

 winch, the tooth- wheel turned by the latter having 

 twenty- eight teeth, whereas the barrel- wheel which it 

 acts upon, has but ten. See fig. 1, Plate II. 



The space allowed for the machinery in the case, at ths 

 end of a multiplying-reel, is capable of being put to better 

 purpose ) but even if rather more than the space ordinarily 

 given were requisite, it would not be of any moment. 



Nor is there any reasonable objection, in my mind* 

 against the force that may be requisite to turn more com 

 plicated machinery j for the power of a man over such a 

 trifling resistance as would thus be created, is by no 

 means worthy of calculation, especially when, as in my 

 plan, the winch is brought into the middle, so as to 

 allow the erank greater depth, 



Tfce 2d Fig. in Plate II. exhibits my improvement on, 

 the multiplier, by which the barrel is turned a trifle MORE- 



THAN NiN TIMES; B* OKA TURN OF THE WINCH ! The 



leading 



