Tools and Conveniences of the Year. 



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38GS. 



Fig. 25. 



bearings on each side supports the cylinder and takes the 



place of a bottom set- 

 screw. One set- 

 screw working against 

 the spring is fixed 

 above the brasses in 

 which the cylinder 

 turns. The operator 

 has only to set this 

 one screw on each 

 side of the machine 

 to adjust the knives." 

 — Ga rdeners ' Maga - 

 zine, 295 . 



Improved Lawn- 

 Cleaner. — (Fig. 26.) 

 "The illustration re- 

 presents a machine 

 designed effectually to clear grass, leaves, etc., from lawns 

 and similar places, and which will take up the grass cut by a 

 lawn-mower, leaving the lawn perfectly clean. It has been 

 lately patented by Charles Bailey, Winnepeg, Canada. The 

 frame of the ma- 

 chine is prefera- 

 bly made of bar- 

 iron, and in its 

 side-bars, near 

 the rear, is jour- 

 naled a shaft ol 

 which the drive- 

 wheels are keyed. 

 On this shaft, 

 near one of the 

 wheels, is loosely 

 mounted a 

 groove- pulley, 

 having a toothed 

 periphery contig- 

 uous to the drive-wheel. This toothed periphery is engaged 

 by pawls pivoted upon the drive-wheel when the machine is 

 moved forward, thus revolving the pulley, but when the ma- 



