The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-04-30
The Superior Muwsrand Reaper
Its Advantages Over, Other
Machines.
An Important Enterprise.

MQeeuDBt II euC ID 2uy NA'Hbi -
uiacluripg city. Her numerous industries
Of various kinds are her boast and consul
,ute her prosperity. She has her iron
mills, her blast furnaces, her iOundries'
her glass works both flint and green, her
wUOiv.. and NAPIER mills, her hinge FAC
tories, tack factories and what not but 1t
does not seem to DO 80 well Indicated
that the enterprise Of some oil her citizens
has established within her limits the man
uIacture of q reaping and moving ma.
chine. the most worthy and successful
thing of the kind Judging from all the
testimonies oEered) that has yet been put
upon the market. This machine manu-
featured by the Superior Machine Co., Is
called the Superior Mower and Reaper,
md Is marvel oil simplicity and com.
pleteness. 1t well deserves It's name, Il
All the accounts can BIO believed, for It Is
said that wherever and whenever brought
into competition with other machines, on
favorable or unfavorable ground, this par
ticular one has invariably furnished ocu-
lar demonstration Of iis superiority. The
reasons are not far 10 seek.
Since the first invention and use OF
machines for gathering agricultural pro-
ducts, great strides have been taken on
tho road 10 perfection In mowers and
rcapers. Ali Of them, however,
have been made, so TO speak,
ip tho beaten track trodden by each sue
ceeding inventor. In other words, the ei:
fort always has been 10 improve spur and
beyelled cog-wheel machineS-the Kind
heretofore known aud used. The world Is
debtor to the talent which gives II labor
saving machines Of any degree OF excel
lence, and willingly acknowledges its OBJ.
legation. But the frst inventors always
fail to completely attain the object ior
which they strive. The history OF any
contriyance to save the labor OIL human
hands is u history Of suggestion and modi:
ficatIou, the record Of slow process Of
growth and development, and tho history
Of mowers and reapers furnishes no ex-
ceplIon to the rule. They did not spring
Uniformed, complete in all their parts,
from the brain OF any single inventor.
But profltiDg by the knowledge derived
from carly successes and failures, succeed.
ing inventors have builded more success
fully, have overcome difficulties which, II
they we're seen at all, were mountains TO
their predecessors; in q word, have con-
structcd machines much more capa'
bic than the carly ones Of fulfilling
the ends for which they were designed.
Progress, however, cannot continue III the
same direction forever; the motive force
must give out sooner or later; and then
comes the dead stop. Ia order 10 pro.
coed, new departure must be taken, and
that Is precisely what has been done In
the construction Of mowers and reapers,
It would appear that cog.wheel machines
had reached the highest degree oil excel
lence Of which they were capable, but the
original objections still existed the con-
struction was too complicated, entailing
extreme liability 10 get out OF order; the
draft too heavy; wear and tear Of parts
too rapid; and repairs too expensive.
How TO obviate these difficulties was the
question, and It Is claimed that 1t has
been at las. successfully answered in the
construction oil the Superior Mower and
Reaper.
This machine unitcs In itself the Valu-
able features Of all others Of its class to-
gether with improvements not possessed
BY any of them; and this desirable result
has been brought about by the application
Of that old yet new las here applied me-
chanical device, known as the worm
wheel and screw, 10 the rotation Of the
crank shaft which drives the cutter bar.
The wheel and screw Is among the Oldest
Of the mechanical powers and is now used
in elevators, holsters, cranes, lathes &C.,
tho screw being made to drive the wheel,
developing and applying the safest power
known. To simply reverse the direction
and gain us result the speed and power
needed for driving the knife Of mower
or reaper, Is one oil those open secrets Of
nature which, when laid bare for the flrst
time, excite a smile that they were never
hit upon before. No one until the inven.
ton Of the Superior ever thought Of this
simple device, or at any rate, made use OF
1t in the construction Of a mower and
reaper.
Comparing this with other machines,
the advantages 1t possesses over them
may be summed up under tho following
heads:
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