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ufe, by the fmaller growers of elder fruit, is 

 very ingenious and beautifully mechanical. 

 It is an improvement of the fimple lever; by 

 adding a rider, or lever upon lever ; at the 

 end of which a weight is fufpended. By . 

 ithis fimple contrivance the ading lever is 

 kept hard down upon the cheefe, and follows 

 it as it finks ! an advantage which no fkrew 

 prefs pofTefTes, - 



As an improvement upon this (and with 

 refped to power it certainly is fuch) iijkrew 

 is made ufe of to pull down the loofe end of 

 the lever j the other end of it, in either cafe, 

 being moveable ; and is fixed higher or 

 lower, according to the height of the pile of 

 pomage to be prelTed : lowering it as the 

 pile is lowered by preffing. 



The lafl: flage of improvement, or refine* 



ment, of the lever prefs ; for fuch it flill 



is, in principle ; is to furnifli each end with 



^ pulldown fkrew ; firfl the one end and 



then the other being worked, in the a<5t of 



prefiing ; a fmall plumrnet being hung in 



the middle, to aiTift the eye of the workmen; 



left, by adling too long upon one end of the 



Jever, they fliould injure the worm of the 



ikrew. 



0^3 Thefe, 



