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Mr. Hoopet’s fpecificationw’ To thefé are 
likewife added improvements upon a water- 
wheel for raifing water ; and another with 
a tunnel fer. {couring away fand or loofe 
foil, for getting a thip‘off the fand or main. 
MR. JAMES ROBERTS'S, and GEORGE 
CATHERY S {SOUTHAMPTON ) for com- 
pletely and effeually eradicating SMUT 
from WHEAT. 
This invention confifs in mixing the 
fmutty wheat with lime made from fione, 
or white or grey chalk. The lime, 
when flack, is, to be fifted through a fine 
fieve, .and then mixed weli .with the 
wheat, in proportion to the degree of 
fmut, from one to two bufhels to a Joad 
of five quarters; .it is then to be pafled 
through a machine; in general once will 
be fufficient to make the wheat fit for 
the miller; but, if intended. for fale, it 
will frequently be neceflary to pa{s the 
wheat through the machine twice, and in 
fome caies three times. The machine is 
made of wire, w:th brufhes within, -upon 
the fame principle as thofe in. common 
ufe, for dreffing flour, only that the wire 
is ftronger and coarfer. 
Wheat, we are told, cleanfed by this 
invention, will preduce flour of, as good 
a quality and value as flour made from 
wheat of the beft growth. 
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MR. JAMES BEVANS’s (CASTLE-STREET) 
_ for Methods of applying MACHINERY 
for the Purpafes of more expeditiqufly 
firiking or flicking Mouldings, and jor 
grooving and excavating Wood in every 
Manner now ujually performed by any 
Kind of PLANE. e 
Thefe operations are to be performed 
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(March t, 
by ‘the planes or other infirumenis now 
ufed for fimilar purpofes, or with fuch 
alterations as are neceflary to adapt them 
to the machinery. They may be ufed’ 
either finely or combined in any number, 
according to the width of the boards to 
be worked at once, and according to the 
nature of the work to be done. The 
inftruments are made to pafs horizontally 
over the material, in the direGion of the 
mouldings, &c. by a connecting rod or 
fhaft communicating at one end with the 
inftruments, and at the other end with 
the machinery, capable of affording a 
reciprocating motion. . 
The machinery may confift of a crank ; 
whofe radius mutt be nearly half the length 
of the required ftrcke, and muft be regu- 
lated accordingly, which may be aficéted 
by the arm of the crank, pafling through 
a mortife in a ftrong box fixed on an 
axis, and fliding in the-faid box to any 
required length, where it mu be fixed 
by ftrong fcrews, the’axis being turned 
by manual exertion, by horfes, water, 
fteam, or any other power, and having 
its motion regulated by a fly-wheel. 
For this part of the machine Mr. Bevan 
lays no claim to an exclufive privilege, ~ 
but he thought it neceflary to deferibe it 
as an example of a fimple method of 
giving a reciprocating motien. 
The drawings annexed to this fpecifi- 
cation exhibit fide and end views of the 
box or frame containing the planes or 
other infruments, with the proper appa- 
ratus ; likewife an horizontal and’ a verti. 
cal feétion of the fame. From thefe and 
the defcription, which is very appropriate, 
the whole pian of the patentee will be 
readily underitood. . 
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