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4661. Ransomes, Sims, and Head. — A pingle blast- machine, witli drum 
fi feet loug ; iu other respects shuilar to the one described in Class II. Delivers 
tlu' chaff into bags. Many loose corns were thrown out by the drum ; so a hood 
was required to catch these. The extra length of the drum enabled it to thresh 
out the corn in less time than the other machines that did the work effectively. 
4986. P. and II. P. Gibbons. — A double-blast machine, similar to their 
finishing-machine. 
4006. Ashby, Jeffery, and Luke. — A double- blast machine. One belt on 
the right, three on the left side, and one belt within tlie frame of the machine; 
this belt is difficult to take off' and put on. Five box-shakers, two of them 
carried on short upright wooden rockers at the delivery end and on a crank 
at the other end ; the other three shakers are carried similarly, but vice versa. 
These shakers did not remove the straw as fast as the drum delivered it to 
them. The machine choked, and feeding had to be suspended. 
2928. Reading Iron Worlxs. — This was tjie only machine iu which Underbill's 
' patent corn-elevator was employed instead of the usual cup-elevators. In this 
form of elevator the grain is thrown up by a series of smart blows from some 
spade-shaped beaters set on an ordinary fan-spindle, and revolving at a high 
speed. When the grain is of average quality this one operation raises the 
corn and knocks the wheat out of the white coats or the awns off barley ; it 
thus greatly simplifies the machine, as the hummeller, elevator-cups, and 
several belts and pulleys, can be disjiensed with : but it has the serious draw- 
back (fatal iu a machine to be hired for work on all sorts of land) that it breaks 
the coi'u when dry and brittle. This machine was provided with an index 
lor the set of the concave. The five box-shakers are carried on two crank- 
shafts. The bearings are self-lubricating. Worked steadily, but scattered some 
corn on the ground beneath it. 
5026. Marshall, Sons, and Co. — A double-blast machine, made so that the- 
finishing-apparatus and screen can be added at any time to make it in all 
, respects similar to the machines tried in Class II. The cavings are delivered 
i under the frame, and the corn, as in Class II., at the back. 
4981. Nalder and Nalder. — A double-blast machine, delivering corn at the 
' back, and cavings under the frame. 
5098. Joseph Oilbert. — Like the machine vu Class 11., but without the 
second riddle-case and Penney-screen. 
4993. Tasker and Sons. — A single-blast machine, with chaff-bagging appa- 
ratus. 
4994. Clayton and Shuttleworth. — A single-blast machine, of excellent con- 
struction and workmanship. Chaff-bagging apparatus provided. The com is 
delivered on the left side into sacks placed 3 feet from the ground — a conve- 
nient arrangement, enabling the attendant to take the sack on his shoulders 
without further assistance. All the bearings are brassed. The index to the 
concave is very distinct. 
The patent trussed frame, the steel drum-spindle, the patent rolled-steel 
beater-plates, and Good's patent single-crank shakers, are used in this as in the 
finishing-machine. In adjusting this machme the neatness and convenience of 
the exhibitors' adjusting-blocks were well displayed. 
4662. Ransomes, Siins, and Head. — In this machine, and in the 4663, to be 
described shortly, the construction is arranged to suit the special requirements 
ot the east and south of Europe. Most of our chief manufacturers of threshing- 
machines make twice as many to go abroad as they make for home 
use. The exhibition of these two machines added to the general interest of 
the trials; but it will be seen that the Judges did not consider their work 
sufficiently suited to the wants of English farmers to qualify them for com- 
peting in the second trial. Number 4662 is specially adapted for threshing 
large quantities of grain in a very short space of time, and is much used in the 
