The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-21 00:00:00

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CLASS VI., No. 61.—Machinery in motion.—A very in-
teresting machine, the iuventien of Mr. Iles, of !lonicsly
Works, Birmingham, for sticking pins in patent embossed
tablets, whereby the old method of sticking pins is entirely
superseded. The tablets are made by submitting circular
pieces of paper to great pressure between dies, having
rings, groove+, and various devices thereon, which are thus
transferred to the paper. Another disc of paper is then
firmly cemented to the back of the embussed paper, which
is then ready to receive the pins. The tablet thus prepared
is placed between two plates on the machine, having cor-
responding grooves, anal held securely, whilst a rotatory
motion is given to the plates, will. the tablet betwe, u, and
the pins are alternately forced into the grooves from a
grooved barrel, which places a pin opposite to each groove
as it revolves. During one of her Majesty's visits to this
department she paid marked attention to this method of
sticking pins, and wee pleased to accept a specimen, Prince
Albert receiving the ode struck by the machine in their,
presence.
Ctass IX., 123 13.—Usher's Steam Plough.--A this in-
vention a woodcut will be found in another column. Fig.
1 shows a side elevation of steam machinery arranged
suitably for carrying out this invention. It will be seen
that tho under edge of the mouldboard and share is formed
to a curve struck from the centre of the shaft or axis on
which the ploughs are affixed; rt a indicate the frame
or carriage of the machine. 'f he fore carriage wheels b b
arc mounted on an axle, which turns in bearings c attached
to the swivel frame 1), which moves on the bolts d for the
purpose of causing the machine to turn round in a small space.
A portion of the swivel frame 1) is toothed, and acted upon
by the pinion and winch e; the hind part of the carriage is
here shown supported upon the hollow cylinder or roller),
composed of two extreme parts, f 1 and f 2, which are
wheels similar to 8 8, the intermediate part f being by pre-
ference removable at pleasure, so as to render these bearing
parts suitable to the different stages of cultivation to which
the machine may be applied. This compound cylinder
has its axles supported in the bearings g, attached to
the lower or to the under side of the carriage
frame. The axle of this cylinder carries also at
one end the wheel h, to be afterwards noticed.
A moveable lever frame, i, i, i, i, is supported on an axle or
shaft k, as a fulcrum. The free ends i i arc formed into the
toothed segments 1, and arc concentric to k, these segments
being acted upon by the two toothed pinions and spindles
es, which elevates or depresses the hind part i i of the lever
frame, and all that it carries, at the pleasure of the con-
ductor. On the carriage thus constructed is placed the
locomotive boiler, with its engines of any ordinary con-
struction, as a n, the power of which is applied through tie
medium of connecting rods o to the crank shaft p, the two
am, of which stand at right angles to each other, in the
usual way. The crank shaft p is supported on two standard*
q securely fixed to the carriage. On the shaft p there is also
fixed the spur pinion, indicated by the dotted circle p' p' in
fig. 1 ; and this pinion, bytaking into the wheel r, mounted
on the shaft 4, gives motion at the rametime to the pinion t,
which is carried round on the same shaft k. The pinion t,
thus actuated, takes into the wheel A, before referred
to, on the bearing cylinder f ; and it is preferred that the
pinion t should be applied so as readily to be put into and
out of gear with its wheel, though not so shown in the
engraving. By this arrangement of parts, a slow pro-
gressive motion is obtained for the whole machine, on the
one hand through the cylinder f, and on the other hand a
separate rotary motion, at a certain increase of speed, is
communicated through the wheel r to the pinion me, fixed
upon the shaft ti es, which last named shaft has its bearings
o v attached to the moveable framei i. On the shaft u is
are placed a aeries of plates or projections, fixed at regular
distances. Or such plates or projections, with their plougbs
afterwards described, may be placed upon separate shafts,
each with its own proper gearing ; but it is preferred to
place them on one shaft. These plates or projections on
the axis arc shaped in such manner as to receive and have
affixed to each of them several ploughs, adapted by their
revolving motion to penetrate the soil, and by their mould-
boards to elevate and turn over portions thereof ; a a are
the plates or projections fixed upon the shaft it ; they are
each formed with a strong boss at the centre, by which It
may be securely fixed to the shaft. Each plate a' has
throe arms or prolongations b, 5, b, which terminate in
the radial direction shown ; a further prolongation
dr d' is carried obliquely upon each of these arms.
Upon the plate and projections thus constructed is affixed
the tilling apparatus, which consists firstly, of the part 40,
which acts the part of the mouldboard or turn-furrow in
the common plough ; and it is to be fixed by screw bolts or
otherwise to the prolongation d' d'. To the fore part of this
mouldboard eels affixed a bar of wrought iron, which is
also furnished with a lug by which it is attached to the plate
by means of screw bolts or otherwise; the bar, thus se-
cured, forms a head or share bearer, as in many common
ploughs. To the fore part of the bar the share is adapted,
and fixed by its socket. The mouldboard, and also the
share, may be varied in form. A fore-cutter or coulter is
affixed in front of each share, by screw bolts or otherwise,
anal is provided with the means of adjustment through the
counter slits, in itself, and in the plate ; but, in order to
meet the different qualities of soils and the various
stages of tillage, further provisions may he em-
ployed.
The number of plates or projections, and
also the number of ploughs in each, may be varied.
It will be seen, that not only the ploughs which are set in
the same plane around the axis follow each other into action,
but that the ploughs of the other sets (which are affixed
around the axis in parallel planes) are arranged and COMO
into action, so that two ploughshares will not strike the 1
earth at the same instant. In the arrangement of the appa-
ratus
before described, it will be seen that the propelling of
the machine along the land is by reason of the resistance of
the land to the ploughs as they enter and travelthrough the
earth, and the motion communicated to the wheels or rol-
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At the usual meeting of the board of erectors of the
parish of St. Pancras on Tuesday, it was unanimously agreed
that the officers of the workhouse should be allowed three
days' leave of absence, to give them an opportunity of
easing the Exhibition in Hyde Park. It was further
awed by Mr. Obbey, and seconded by Mr. Carter, tha
Malt officer should be presented with ten shillings, to defray
expenses ; but this was rejected by a large majority.