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was delivered from the machine, impress us with its effective- 

 ness in this primary step in manufacture. The oiling apparatus 

 attachment, which oils the fibre evenly, is also to be especially 

 noticed. After a careful examination, and repeated exhibitions, we 

 cordially commend it to your consideration for first honors. 



No. 933. Wool Picker and Burrer. (S. E. Parkhurst.) This 

 is decided to be second in order of merit. In delivering the fibre 

 in good condition under trial, working stocks of various grades, 

 sometimes purposely selected for its poor quality, the performance 

 of the above machine has been satisfactory. 



The sliver apparatus in this machine, only facilitates the handling 

 of the fibre, and most manufacturers would prefer it in bulk from 

 the machine. 



Your committee, looldng at all points of design and construc- 

 tion, commend it to your notice as being in the second rank of 

 classification. 



No. 1052. Burring Heads, single and double. (C. L. Goddard.) 

 Its merits are, the construction of the cylinders, with iron ribs 

 placed spirally across the fibre of the wood, the spiral blades of 

 the guards which were first used in this machine, and the solid 

 rings i^laced between the burr circles. They, therefore, respect- 

 fully ask for them consideration as first class machines. 



No. 1055. (S. R. Parkhurst.) Machines for the same purpose 

 are placed second in classification; closely resembling in details No. 

 1052, they fail in being up to first class. But they are recommended 

 to notice in the Second rank. 



No. 28 9i Samples of Card Clothing. (Sargent Card Clothing 

 Company.) It combines great variety of grades, suitable for all 

 classes of carding, with great precision in the setting 'of the card 

 teeth, and uniformity of bend and surface of the same, and is made 

 of good material. We earnestly commend this to the consideration 

 of the Institute for first honors. 



No. 290. Card Clothing Machines. (Sargent Card Clothing 

 Company.) Its merits are excellence of material and workman- 

 ship, of which latter feature we cannot speak too highly; that it 

 is made by the system of duplication or gauge work, which in a 

 machine of this character is absolutely necessary; the simplification 

 of it over machines hitherto in use; the improvement in the piercer 

 and tooth sticker; the positive character of the feed motion, which 

 is a grip, and not a feed by rolls, all of which enables the machine 

 to run with double the rapidity of others, and with less liability to 



