604 Report on Miscellaneous Imj)lement Awards at Derby. 
Street, London, and to Article 5393, Guard for Circular Saw, 
exhibited and manufactured by R. W. Tayler, of Bury St. 
Edmunds, Suffolk. A short notice of these inventions may be 
of interest to those who had^not an opportunity of inspecting 
them. 
The Perpetual Press is an American invention, which was shown 
in its present identical form at Philadelphia in 1876. It was then 
described as Dederick's Hay-press, from the name of the Patentee. 
Fig. 1 will convey a correct idea of the exterior of the machine. 
Fig. 1. — View of the Perpetual Balinj Press, No. 5420. 
It will be seen that the hay is fed into a hopper (Fig. 2) by the 
attendant, and that, at regular intervals, when the traverser is 
withdrawn, a fork or board descends and forces the hay into a 
chamber below the hopper, where it is subject to the compressing 
action of a reciprocating traverser. Fig. 3 represents the posi- 
tion of the hay after it has been forced down by the fork or 
board, preparatory to its being driven forward by the traverser. 
This combined action causes each section of the bale to be 
folded up as is shown in Fig. 4. The pressing is accomplished 
by a reciprocating traverser moving backwards and forwards 
underneath the hopper, which presses against the compact hay, 
and forcing beyond its traverse at each revolution all the hay 
