River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-30
rHREsHINa MACHINERY.
The New Buffalo Pitts Vibrator Takes the
Front Rank.

The New Buffalo Pitts Vibrator Takes the
Front Rank.
The past decade has witnessed won
derful improvements in threshing
machinery and in no make of ma
chimes has this progress been more
marked than in those manufactured
at the Pitts Agricultural Works,
Buffalo, New York. The latest. and
by many regarded as the most sue
cessful effort of the Pitts Manufacture
ing Company to supply the public
with the very best machines made, is
found in the Nsw Buffalo Pitts ~
brating1 1hresher, which combines
all of those specially good points Of
the Old Reliable Buffalo Pitts with
those which are common to both
vibrator and apron threshers. The
combination suggested, however, does
not make of it Il mongrel machine,
but by peculiar mechanical appliances
it is rendered genuine pt6rdf or
which separates, cleans and saves
grain in manner unequaled by any
other machine. Accepting the kind
invitation of the general agent of the
manufacturers of this superior ma
chine, we recently visited the farm
of j. Ensign, Esq, to witness its work.
Upon reaching our destination we
found it in successful operation, pro-
PEELED by fine portable engine, also
manufactured at the Pitts Agriculture
al Works. Though the grain threshed
| for Mr.. Ensign was not in the best
condition, having been exposed to the
weather for nearly a year, and some
of the straw having become exceed
ingly tough, the machine did its work
easily and in highly satisfactory
manner: it did not choke, neither did
it carry or blow wheat over into the
straw; it moved with marvellous even
ness and regularity and with much
less noise than characterizes the or
binary machines, while the dust
raised was reduced to the lowest pos
sible minimum. After the wheat is
knocked from the heads by the
cylinder it descends an inclined plane
to the mill, prevented by constant
vibrations from clogging; when 1t has
reached the mill the wheat has al
ready been freed from the straw and
the chaff is separated from the wheat
before reaching the sleeves, thus pre-
venting clogging or overlooking the
sleeves. The straw having passed
through the cylinder is carried rapid
ly backward by sort of lap-board,
with serrated edges. receiving a
thorough shaking during its course,
the wheat being completely eliminat-
ed therefrom by two beaters which
do the work much more etfectually
than it can be done by but one as
under the old method. The large
space provided for the free passage of
the straw and the great simplicity OF
the machine renders ciogging almost
an impossiblity. The great points OF
superiority of this machine over all
others are found III the simplicity,
regularity and evenness of its move.
ments; its freedom from the usual
rackings or Earrings; its ability TO
clean wheat, wet or dry, whether fed
fast or slow, without clogging or run
ming wheat into the straw-stack; hay
ing two beaters instead of but one; 1t
separates the grain from the straw
perfectly; it delivers the grain well
cleaned; it is closely encased and SO
made that little OF no grain is dropped
or wasted under the machine, and
thus does away with the usual 'clean-
ing up'' found to be necessary around
other machines; it is built in much
more substantial manner than other
| Vibrators in the field, having larger
shafting, large and wide-faced pulleys
and wide belts, thus carrying more
power with less friction. Many far
mers admired the workings of the
! Vibrator, and number of old thresh-
ers with whom we conversed, ex-
pressed themselves as surprised that
such vast improvements in threshing
had been made, regarding the Vibrator
as all that could possibly be desired
us Il grain and labor-saying machine.
All who contemplate the purchase OF
a threshing machine, will consult
their own interests by an examination
of the merits of the New Buffalo Pitts
Vibrator, for which our esteemed
fellow -townsman, X. T.. Lien is agent,
and who we understand took orders
for three machines on the strength of
work done at Mr.. Ensign's by this
| "boss' machine.