June 15, 1882] 



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contained in a separate tender, depicted in Fig. 2. The 

 train starts from the factory with the wagons empty. 

 Arrived at the bleach-field, it stops. By the movement of 

 a handle, the motor is thrown into gear with a set of 



windlass rollers employed to wind up the linen. Passing 

 between these rollers the linen ascends to another roller 

 in the top of the car, which covers the machinery, where 

 it passes to a workmen, who packs it in folds in a little 



Fig 3.— H.mling 



truck (Fig. 3). Preferably all the linen pieces laid out 1 usually requiring eleven hours to perform. Fig. 4 shows 

 upon the plot of neighbouring ground, arc united to one ' the train of little trucks returning loaded with 10,000 

 another bv their ends, so that a single workman can pick , metres of linen. Having thin described the general system, 

 up 5000 metres of linen in thirty minute?, an operation | it will be convenient to examine the details. 



Fig. 4. — The return of the electric I 



1 from the bleaching ground. 



The motor, or locomotive (Fig. 1) consists, as we have , to 9. A lever handle (see Figs. 1 and 5) controls the 

 said, of a Siemens' dynamo capable of being reversed at 1 machine. As shown in Fig. 5, in a vertical position the 

 will. The armature rotates very rapidly, the motion j brake is on, and no electrical action is taking place. By 

 being reduced by a chain-gearing in the proportion of I lowering the lever, contact is made, enabling the electric 



