New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-09-09
THE EXHIBITION
AT THE
CRYSTAL PALACE.
XVI.
MACHINERY.

We took a hasty survey Of the Maehineryrosu AZ !
the Palace yesterday in order to and give seus
account Of new Inventions recently entered Some Of
these viii be barely mentioned here and perhaps nor,
sl,horatey described in critical notices heresa.,
Pm, then as now, wish il distinctly underx.sa,
that we only propose to give such account Of are~.
uhoh seem 10 us valuable shall induce those ma,
ssted 70 examine and judge for themselves We'd
nor undertake to be eyes for them but only TO syv.,
direction in which their eyes may judicioasly be ess
Still less do we mean 70 intemeddle with any eOueir.
inc claims to invention or ownership Thus We SPOKE
Of - Grrnns's Centripetal Pump" because BY ia,
name il was commended to US. Our corresponds,
who insists that the Centripetal Pump is act Gvyune.
that Gwynne did not invent nor essentially improve
it's informed that We have not intended TO raise tie
question he moots aud shall not discuss it. there's
suy question of contested patent let the courts adjust
it-And now to our notes:
A Shoe-Peggng Machine is exhibited BY 4 + Cal
lshue of Pittsburgh Ps-pstented on the 18th OF a,
month The inventor states that no other machine 6r
pegging boots and shoes in operation and DO no,
remember having any. though long ago satisfied
by observing the operation OF other machinery, that
pegging by machines is practicable This is made
almost entirely of iron, costs $3.50 to $500, and WHIP
baby weigh some two or three hundred pounds. Il
works very quietly and rapidly, and viii peg shoe
boot two rows on each side leaving small space
the heel and toe in three minutes cutting rs own
pegs One man only is required TO operate IT, wthoa,
auxiliary power \ good workman will peg shoe BY
hand in fifteen minutes but close application to peggng
is considered unhealthy. We asked an Eastern shoe
manufacturer who examined this machine when We
did whether il did its work better or worse than ts
done bv hand and he said il drove the pegs more
! IL and ON the whole better We understand that tis
row in practical operation in Pittsburgh but we be-
lcve no other than the in the Exhibition has yet
appeared this side of the Alleghenes.
machine for making ccs little eathern rolls used
in spinning land of which 10000 per day hitherto
made BY hands. are Worn out in Massachusetts alone,
i, one of the most ingenious contributions OF Connectf
cut 10 the Fair Those who are familiar with White
more : machine for cutting, bending and setting card
teeth or the machine Tor making chain OF brass or
other wire invented at Derby Conn will readily anti
cirate its hest points The leather is drawn into the
machine in ,he shape of strap or belt Is cut OIL
the proper length diagonaly so as TO form the best
edges for cumming, is then rolled or doubled over 50
that the two edges being eummed in the operation eA'
acly meet when they pressed FIRMLY together and
tie row perfected cot dropped through the maehlne
and another length drawn n undergo the same pro
c,,s The inventors has escaped u.s. nut u VIII
rot be room forgotten.
4 Weighing and Packing Machine for packers Of
Tea. Coffee Pepper Spices. Nc, Nc, Is exhioned@
Slater & Steele jersey City which seems excellent in
its srhere though that sphere is narrow Que ihs
u ateria is fed from hopper over head is weighed IN
e.; 5eecept from the hopper and discharged IN pounds.
h,lfpouuds or otherwise rs may be required INTO
urnel resting in a square box into which paper mas
ready been conveyed by the machine. The box forms
No link in an endless chain OF boxes revolving around
plattorm and moving few inches receives through
he tunnel square stamp just fitted to It, and thence
s IN another and another, until the fourth delivers
| !, nre,sed into solid mass and enyeoped hr I" ~
Jones is sad to be the patentee
\ obaccopressing Machine il exhibited costing
$50 or So and said to press Tobacco from loose ro'
nto uuos as fast as twenty men have hitherto been
able 70 do it, We should Judge that one OF these
machines could press as much Tobacco IN day as all
mankind ougbt TO chew from this hour TO the maj con-
fagraton of the world
An improved CottonGin is on exhibition "heh up
pears 10 be perfect but Improvement In Gins mas long
been in order, and probably long will be-
The Pumps in the Exhibition deserve an aftic'e "
,bemselves but we have no time to write 1t now