Report on Sheaf-Bindinf/ Machinery at Shrewsbury. 57 
12 inches wide, and travels much quicker than the web at the 
rear, which is divided from the other by a wooden lath. The 
object is to accelerate the delivery of the butt-end of the cut 
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grain to the elevator ; but in actual practice there did not 
appear to be much advantage in this arrangement, and it 
obviously added to the number of bearings, which, without it, 
are sufficiently numerous. 
