New Quartz-Crusher.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 184, 20 May 1873, Page 7

New Quartz-Crusher.

The Melbourne Telegraph of a recent date has the following“Mr W. Rasche’s patent direct-acting battery for the crushing of quartz was set in motion at the Vulcan foundry, A’Beckett-street, yesterday afternoon, and though only temporarily fixed on a rather shaky foundation, it showed that it was equal to a considerable amount of hard work. The grand peculiarity in it consists in its simplicity and portability. It weighs only about 2| tons, and is stated to be capable of crushing about 70 tons of quartz per week, the component parts being so arranged that they can be carried over any description of country by pack-horses. It has four stampers of the usual weight, two in each box, and they can he worked one, two, three, and four at a time, as required. The cylinder stands upon a wooden column, or balk with girders, and rises or falls, as the steam is introduced, or allowed to escape through a throttle, so contrived as to work with the utmost smoothness. Much care has been taken, with a view to preventing all those accidents which every now and then occur to appliances of the kind ; but until it has done some practical work—such as getting through some hundred tons of quartz—it would be idle to pronounce on its merits as against those of the machines at present in use. If it can stand the wear and tear of the quartz—and there is no reason why it should not do so—it will, from its cheapness, and from the ease with which it may be transported anywhere, prove a very vauluable invention.”