546 Miscellaneous Implements Hxhibiled at Warwidic. 
Article 2435. Messrs. Clan'Tce cfe Son, Brackley, Northamp- 
tonshire, exhibited a new patent portable weighing machine on 
the principle of the lever, or steelyard, with counterpoise weights, 
which can be stamped by the local authority, as they bear only 
one denomination. The 1 lb. weight is the counterpoise for 
8 lb., the 14 lb. weight for 1 cwt., and so on. The advan- 
tage of this is that retail dealers in coal, &c., can use the counter- 
poise weights instead of having to carry a number of heavy 
weights about with them, and thus reduce their load very much. 
The whole apparatus, with weights, takes up little room ; it 
can be fitted in a box underneath the cart, and can be hung for 
use on the side or back of the cart. The counterpoise weights 
must be carefully tested from time to time, as a little variation 
would affect the weight, but being stamped, and clearly marked, 
as a denomination of the Board of Trade standard, they are easily 
tested at any time. They are galvanised to prevent rust, and 
the whole apparatus is very portable. 
Article 3020. Mr. William Barnard, Bolton Percy, Leeds. 
This was the only Hedge Cutter in the yard, but it was not 
tried, and consequently no opinion can be given of its working 
or efficiency. It consists of a strong frame or cai’riage mounted 
on two broad travelling wheels, four feet apart, with a shaft, or 
arm, carried on a slide, so that it can be extended, and also 
raised or lowered, to suit the hedge, by the driver as he stands 
on a platform behind. The cutting disc, four feet in diameter, 
works from a swivel point on the end of the arm, and has six 
knives or cutters in its circumference; it revolves at a high 
speed. The cutting action is upwards, and is said to be similar 
to a brushing hook. 
Article 3753. The Central Cyclone Company, Ltd., 32 
Graham Street, City Road, N. Amongst the pulverisers exhibited 
by this firm, one was entered as a “ New Implement,” and 
described as No. 0 Class. It claims to be adapted for “ grinding 
grain and other feeding stuffs, dry solid chemicals and phos- 
phates ” ; and the pulverised samples exhibited showed the 
work to be well done. The capacity of the machine was rated 
at 20 bushels of beans per hour, fairly fine, or 8 cwt. of phos- 
phates. It consists primarily of two fans driven separately, and 
revolving at a high speed close to each other, but in no way 
close enough to give a grinding action. The blades of the fan 
consist of rectangular plates of hard, chilled metal, placed at a 
particular angle with the axis of the fan. The machine being 
started, the material to be pulverised is fed in and caught 
by the blades of the fan, the high speed at which they are 
running at once driving the material to the peripliery or 
