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Article 2. — Platform Weighing Machine : manufactured by W. and T. Avery, 
of Birmingham. Price 71. 10s. To -weigh 5 cwts., also to weigh milk by the 
gallon up to 40 gallons, also with a tare weight for taring the cans. 
The milk in the " churns " is then hoisted by means of a Lewis's Milk- 
can lifter, which is thus described by the manufacturers : — 
Article 3. — Patent Milk-can Lifter ; manufactured by G. Lewis and Son, of 
Albert Works, Kettering, for raising Railway Milk-cans or Churns and delis-ering 
their contents into a tank for supplying Separators. This is an entirely New 
Invention. It is fitted with our Patent Compensating Bar, which ensures a 
direct and equal lift on each chain under all circumstances ; also with a self-acting : 
Fig. 16. — 3Iessrs. Lewis and Son's Patent Milk-can Lifter. 
tipping arrangement for emptying the cans when they arrive at the top of the 
machine. The can is lowered with speed and safety by a Patent Brake. Botb 
Tipping and Return actions are entirely automatic. Height of Delivery, 6 ft. 10 in., 
price 71. (These machines are made to deliver at any required height.) 
From the receiving tank the milk flows over a heating aj^paratus, as it is 
desirable, but not necessary, that before the milk flows into the Danish 
(Nielsen and Petersen's) Separator, it should have a temperature of about 
80° Fahr. The flow is regulated by a special contrivance invented by Pro- 
fessor Fjord, of Copenhagen. The cost of the whole machine, as stated by 
the Aylesbury Dairy Company, who have lent this small-size horse-power 
Separator, is as follows : — 
