Improved Chaff-Cutting Machinery.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 61, 11 August 1885, Page 4

Improved Chaff-Cutting Machinery.

The following is troin the Otago Daily Times : — The enterprise of ouv local agricultural implement maker* m keeping up to tho timos and turning 1 nut new and improved machinery to meet the growing demands of the agricultural community, has often been proved. Messrs Reid and Gray have lately been experimenting upon chaff-cutting , machinery with a view of turning out a superior machine at a minimum cost, smd one, too, which should raoro than hold its own m competition with similar machines. Yestfrday afternoon we had the pleasure nf inspecting one of a number of ch^fl-cutting and bagging machines, which was Wing put through a trial prior to its despatch to Auckland. In its construction, this machine of Messrs Rt'id an:l Gray's differs considerably from ihnse m common usp, and tin 1 advantages claimed for it are greater sp^ed m cutting and corrpspondintr quickness m hagcing. Several patented improvements are noticeable m the lagging apparatus. To prevent waste of chaff while bags are bfing changed a brake is fitted upon the screw-prexs, which, stopping it instantaneously, prevents the chuff being forced through the delivery box while the screw is stopped to change the bags. The machine being providetlwith a smutter-riddle, all sorrel, and dock seeds, as well as dust and smut, and very fine chaff, are removed from the chaff proper, and ".his :<lone is an improvement which will be appreciated by owners of «<tock. Thp cavinps or long Straws m the chaff are delivered behind the machine, the dust, <fee, underneath. The brake on the screw-press has been patented as well as the mouthpiece, which is m one piece, and is easily renewable. The firm have made five of these machines, ami the reports concerning them are highly satisfactory. Messrs Smith and Sons, of Greenfield, were the purchasers o' the first combined machine, and they find no difficulty m cutting ami hanging twenty tons or more per diem with their machine. The one rested yesterday has a 12-in mouthpiece, but a larger size c«n be made, without increasing the. si/P of the fiame of the Wflcl-ino. It. is claimed for the msichinp that, 1 20 wrll-j>acleil bags per hour mn be tnrnfd out when th«» niaehiim is m competent hand-: and tin-* quality of the stuff to be i haffwl is gnorl. The whole ennrern is mounted on four wheHs, ,md cm li e easily and spi-e-'ilv transp<vf(vl from place, to place The N<\ 1 ordinary chaff-cut-tp.v which the firm have boen turning out can he ndjn^t'd to Ih^ vortab'e frame and fitted , up with riidles nn«l bagging apparatus. A machine «noh as was tried venter lav is turnwl out or somothing und v- £GO. '