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" The above engraving represents a small Coffee Peeler and Polisher 

 for hand power. This machine is identical in principle to the larger 

 Horizontal Power Peeler and Polisher of Smout's Patent, and produces 

 equally excellent results. It is a very substantial machine and having 

 no complicated parts cannot get out of order. The pressure required to 

 remove the parchment and silver skins from the beans is produced by the 

 adjustable weight C put on the lever of the discharge door B and if 

 it be found that any beans are'delivered imperfectly shelled, additional 

 pressure must be put on the lever until the coffee is discharged quite 

 clean : it is, however advisable to use as light a weight as possible, as 

 the power required to work the machine increases in proportion to the 

 weight on the lever ; and it is sometimes preferable, instead of adding 

 to the weight, to pass the coffee through the machine a second time. 

 As the machine will not perfectly shell the coffee until it is quite full, 

 the quantity discharged during the first few minutes after commencing 

 to work, must be again placed in the hopper. Smout's Patent Coffee 

 Peeler possesses the great advantage over all other Peelers of being 

 able to perfectly clean parchment coffee without breaking a single bean ; 

 and, as it requires no adjustment beyond the weight on the lever, it is 

 impossible for the coffee to be damaged by a careless workman. 



" This small machine will clean 361bs of parchment coffee per hour. 

 It weighs 401bs nett, and when packed for shipment 5 61bs gross. 

 " Price, packed for shipment, F. 0. B., London £8." 



Gordon's Patent Dry Cherry Huller. 



"This engrav- 

 ing illustrates Gordon's 

 'Africa' Patent Huller; 

 which has been specially 

 designed to take the 

 place of the very primi- 

 tive methods usually 

 adopted on small planta- 

 tions, and to prevent 

 the great damage and 

 loss which now result 

 through the breakage 

 of the beans by the use 

 of such obsolete appli- 

 ances. This Huller is 

 a most excellent ma- 

 chine for the purpose 

 and will be found most 

 satisfactory in every 

 respect. It is ex- 

 tremely simple in its 

 construction, and con- 

 sists of an interior re- 

 volving cylinder, and 

 an exterior casing the 

 under part of which is 

 fitted with a grid 

 having graduated openings, through which the shells, and clean coffee 



