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The second liand-iiiachine, No. 7201, as represented in our illustration, is 
similar to the above, only the rollers are 14 inches wide in the feed, and an 
independent scutcher is attached. The ratchet handle works the rollers, the 
wheel is for turning tlie scutching blades ; the price is 13/. 13s. From 
40 to 50 lbs. of clean flax can be prejwred in a day. 
Fig. 14. — Mr. J. E. HodgJcin's Skamroclc Hand Flax Breaker and 
Scutcher, No. 7201. 
No. 7197. — Two-horse-poAver machine (including patents by Brasier, Hodg- 
kin, and Bremmfe), is a beautiful machine, consisting of a large central roller, 
round which three smaller ones revolve by contact. Eeciprocating motion is 
given by an eccentric, and forward motion by a small pinion wheel ; the 
pinion moving forward slowly at each stroke of the eccentric, and finally 
completing the revolution of the central roller. The machine is either sent 
out on wheels as a portable mill, or else without. The prices are respectively 
70/. and 55/. 
No. 7199 is not so large, costs only 421, and has a radial slot to alter 
pinions for speed, so that according to the nature of the straw the proportion 
between the reciprocating and forward motion can be regulated. This machine 
•was^selected by the Judges for the first prize of 6/. 
No. 7196 is a larger machine than any, having six rollers round the central 
roller, but precisely similar in construction. Price, 80/. This is adapted 
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