Hay and Straiv Presses at Nottingham. 
583 
Stephenson's No. 3820. The density was considerable, the 
power, as already noted, also considerable, and the cost of baling 
per ton large in accordance. The press did its work well in 
every respect, and, employing two horses instead of one, would 
give satisfactory results. 
Article No. 3819, exhibited by Geo. Steiyhenson, of Trent- 
bridge Works, Newark,' was of the " half-toggle " type, having no 
lower toggle limbs. In all other respects it is exactly similar to 
No. 3820 (see page 605), consisting of a vertical box, filled from 
a platform through a lateral door, and a platten which rises and 
falls as the limbs of the toggle are brought together or separated. 
The closing of the toggle-joint is accomplished by means of 
a chain made fast to one of the arms near the roller, reeved 
round a snatch block on the other arm, and then led back, 
parallel to the rail upon which the toggle rollers travel, to a 
horse-windlass, exactly similar to that which has already been 
described in connection with machine No. 3820. Considerable 
height is saved in the " half-toggle " press by the suppression 
of the lower limbs of the toggle, but at the expense of its length, 
a change which is, however, taken advantage of to get a better 
arrangement of travelling wheels. Still it must be confessed 
that both of this maker's horse-presses are somewhat heavy and 
cumbersome machines. 
The press under review was tried first in straw, and after- 
wards in loose hay, and did exceedingly good work in both. One 
horse, walking one minute and standing four out of every five, 
drove the press with ease, and could have kept on all day long 
Table IV. — Showing General Results of Trials in Class 2. 
Name of 
Exhibitor 
uly6 
a o 
W 
First Trials, in Loose Straw, at Fodder Yard, 
35 
36 
Stephenson . . 
Lincolnshire Co. 
Ladd . . . . 
Stephenson . . 
No. 
3820 
3814 
3815 
3819 
651 
65 
802 
70 » 
lbs. 
575 
tons. 
1-50 
lbs. per 
c. foot 
6-20 
5. d. 
Machine failed. 
512 I 8-00 i 10-40 
666 8-50 8-00 
G 0 
No notes 
9 0 I 16 
6 0 9 
9 0 
s. d. 
15 0 
taken. 
0 I 25 0 
0 15 0 
Ladd^ 
Stephenson 4 
Second Trials, in Loose Hay, at Fodder Yard. 
3815 
3819 
80 
70 
16 
27 
627 
1368 
10-50 
13-50 
13- 37 
14- 10 
0 I 25 0 
0 15 0 
s. d, 
1 9 
3 14 
1 9 
2 4i 
1 1 
' Price includes horse-gear. 
^ Price without horse-gear. 
^ Second prize. 
First prize. 
