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WARREN *S HORSE-POWER AND THRESHER. 
WARREN’S HORSE-POWER AND THRESHER. 
Directions for Using Warren’s Improved Patent Horse- 
Power and Threshing Machines. —The lever, a , for the two 
horse-power, Fig. 1, should not be less than 18 or 19 feet 
long, of tough, springy wood, well fitted and securely fast¬ 
ened with two iron bolts well keyed into the lever-box, b. 
For a one horse-power, the lever may be half the length of 
that for the two horse-power, and fastened at one end into 
the lever-box so as to attach the horse to the other end. 
The leather band, c, should not usually be less than 35 
feet long and 3£ inches wide—it may be longer if necessary. 
The machines may be placed as follows, viz.:—The horse¬ 
power, Fig. 1, and the pulley-box, Fig. 3, outside the barn, 
and the threshing machine, Fig. 2, inside any convenient 
distance, say about 4 feet. The pulley-box to be between 
the horse-power and thresher, so that the horses will pass 
over its centre as they walk their circle—that end of ihe 
pulley-box to be towards the horse-power which has the 
upright pulley, d, in it. The horse-power to be placed with 
the band-wheel, g, towards the thresher or barn. The left 
nand outer edge of the band-wheel of the horse-power (your 
face towards the barn), the inside of the pulley-box, and the 
whirl or pulley, /, of the thresher, should be on a straight 
line, so that the band will run true and not run off the 
whirl,/. This can be best done before the pulley-box and 
thresher are secured to their places, by passing one end of 
the band around the band-wheel from the left hand outer 
edge of said wheel into the pulley-box, so as not to touch 
either the box or the upright pulley, d, and by a half-twist 
through the box, and between the two horizontal pulleys, 
e, at the other end up on to the whirl, /, of the thresher. 
The other end of the band goes from the right hand edge of 
the band-wheel into the pulley-box next to the upright pul¬ 
ley, through the box, by a half-twist the same way as the 
other, so as to bring the flat sides of the band together, and 
thus prevent friction under both horizontal pulleys, e, (of 
course next to the lower pulley,) and so meets the other end 
of the band. 
The pulley-box, Fig. 3, should be secured firm to a sub¬ 
stantial plank or timber set in the ground secure. The 
horse-power, Fig. 1, should be set on two substantial pieces 
of timber or sleepers, which sleepers should be set in the 
ground firm and deep enough to bring the upper side of the 
bed-piece, h, of the horse-power on a level with the surface 
of the ground and on a horizontal line with the pulley-box, 
while the bottom cross-pieces, i, of the horse-power, rest 
firm on the sleepers. Four iron staples should be driven 
into these sleepers to come through the four morticed holes 
in the bottom cross-pieces of the horse-power ; and to these 
the horse-power should be well keyed. Or, the horse-pow¬ 
er may rest wholly on the ground without sleepers (if firm 
and level as before described) and be staked down. 
It is very important to have the horse-power, Fig. 1, and 
pulley-box, Fig. 3, fixed firm and level as described, in their 
proper places—that is, these should always be on a horizon¬ 
tal line with each other, so that the end of the lever to 
which the horse is attached, will be the same distance from 
the ground all around, while the horse walks his circle— 
then it will make no difference if the ground is sloping. 
Until the band is well stretched, the thresher, Fig. 2, may 
be secured firmly to its place by means of cleats; after the 
band is fully stretched, the thresher may be permanently 
fastened to the floor in any way preferred, by screw-bolts or 
otherwise. The band, of course, can be tightened by mov¬ 
ing the thresher forward. 
To prevent the possibility of the band from running up off 
the band-wheel, g, when in motion, and getting among the 
cogs of the other wheels, it will be well to nail a narrow 
board (as long or longer than the width or diameter of the 
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