REAPING & BINDING MACHINES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 761, 18 September 1878, Page 1 (Supplement)

REAPING & BINDING MACHINES.

(From the Canterbury Times.) THK OSI'.OUN'F. lIAKYKSTKU AN T l> HINDER. ' 7'h.o last San Francisco mail boat brought £reiu Messrs. Osborne and Co., a sample of U;e;.r Unproved Harvester and Bhidor, consigned to their Stew .Zealand agents, Meters. Robert Wilkin aa.d M>., at whose invitiitation «•-« had the opportunity of inspecting the m.Vultttte and noting its improvements. As will be »OGn by'our advertising columns it is now on view at the New Zealand Wool Stores, HerefouL street. The first thing that struck ua v/ai; tJi.e great ingenuity displayed in making ;d;. ihs improvements couU-ibute to the strength o;;' tho machine,, without increasing tlie draught. Undoubtedly ih.s most important alteration, and :■* substitution oi an iiv.-n (ci' + ivoodeu driving wheel. The ik»' wUeei ;.s i.-. o«b----ttantial one of cast-iron, with bent spoke*, showing very great strength and durability. '."here is an entirely newdividing rod, wtii..;.. i' 1 ingenuously contrived to work on r>;«> and divide the bundle being operated oi; 4'ora the loose grain, at the heads inhtftad ,A the butts,\hit-s preventing any chance of one bundle being tangled with the he;, of the next, as it will be remembered ■■- sometimes the case with the lacl ~•■:'■ - ; machine. There is a slight a1t,.".".' r v>r tightening the chains wori■.''."-: on Tlie sprocket 5/beels, and v •*: ..-ning rl.v friction and .oajiiv oive-i'.t. '! he knife bar, which ••■-■- . ■■■;-■ ■■■ '; "--'l. -s now v ■; a..i.;-.!v oUv;. l>, which {he •' "e ,>,.;teo ; The ],.,,, i . 'u. I) simp'v wori;eel thrum' ■• .ndard-s, );07/ works •- «. L iji... '. Tlie !■;• urd uon.- .■; 71 :.- t,.- ■■•'. elevators and the lii- lL ia Stopped several -..* ami ■ an angle making ;■;-- an :n M .-0.-<-'i: 'iiity for any grain to tweenitauc; the elevator. Thewinds fastened on by an extremely simple secure fastening, so that it oau be 1 instantly. The pole is greatly id, and the whippletrees placed niiiir from tlie machine, making iftsiblo £oi- tlie reel to touch the 'iere is a slight alteration in >le reel, giving it more play ', wliicli it is claimed will be in boj.li long and short e is also an improvement in for raising and th,e 'he needle-bar is straightthicker wrought iron than the support has an acljuct--abling the needle to be set ■:uracy. Too tension is also Several minor alterations ,m ii.ade, and the improved well repay inspection. It is l iro-vcment on iact year's i*i will show to more uri.yan-i-e competitions. The Osborne irst appearance in Canterbury asion of the award iu its favor us, and we are informed !>y the .t their advices from Messrs. re extremely satisfactory, over ■ie machine.-! haviiig beoii sold d States alone during lh« lata r. Robert Wilkin also advises it his inquiries of practical le on his way through to etc met with great, praise in machine. We learn that ■rue's factory at Auburn has by four Canterbury imof whom were desiro.ut of ichiii.-s direct from them ire, but were refused, the id themselves not to sell Tessrs. Wilkin and Co. »il< Iv jr.UIVKK'IEK. self-liiudiiig harvester '.od times recently at a neriean public trials, upon a contest which i, one of the American the Held chosen was •* the purpose, being of winter wheat, very .mewhat beaten down, •red were the Adams r'alter A. i,i"ood, and The first-mentiofied ef in the early part of >nly the reaping part be used, it was of '.•mining. The Wood ant of "persuasion," k worked from nrat to ih. The journal reIt did its work reully, and with great tea2ii, without a stop hearts of the large oresent seamed comnj' who came to the nachines, soon broke iraises of the M'Corie to a vote of the expression was unao using cheers were ormick. Jt was a