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machine can be afforded complete for two pounds 

 two millings, which will, with two men, flice three 

 tons of turneps, into flices of three quarters of an 

 inch thick, in one hour. It is alio portable, and 

 may, by the two men who work it, be moved 

 from one houfe or field to another, borne by two 

 handles like a fedan chair. A. A. the hopper, or 

 trunk of the machine, which is angular within, 

 fuited to the angle the knife, when placed in its 

 frame, fig. 2. d. A. d. makes with the fides there- 

 of. B. B. B. B. the frame which Aides to and fro 

 upon two rollers, D. D. which greatly abate the 

 friction. E. E. two ftrong leather ftrops, which 

 (top the Aider at each end alternately ; one end of 

 each of thofe ftrops is fattened to the crofs bars, 

 F. F. and the other ends to the rounds, B. B. B. B. 

 fig. 2. in the notches, C. C. with a buckle, and 

 may be taken up or let out occafionally. C. C. in 

 fig. 1. are the two handles for carrying it by from 

 place to place. G.G. feet morticed upon the four 

 pofts, which fecure it from falling. H. H. Two 

 crofs bars between thofe feet. Fig. 3. the knife, 

 with two edges, which being turned with its claws, 

 b. b. &c. at right angles to its own plane, is put 

 into the mortices, d. d. In fig. 2. the fcrew-pins, 

 with the hand nuts, C. C. tighten it in the frame ; 

 and fig. 4. which reprefents a collar of iron, about 

 a quarter of an inch thick, of which there are 

 about eight in number for the two claws ; their 

 ufes are to put between the Aioulders of the knife, 

 and the upper fides of the frame, and are put in 

 numb -r, as the edge of the knife is required to be 

 railed .'bove the floor of the Aider, in order to fize 

 the A :e, i. e. they are put on the upper fide of the 

 frarrn. to make the Aice thick, and removed from 

 that fide, and put between the hand-nuts and un- 



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