A NEW BUDDLE.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1706, 22 June 1874, Page 2

A NEW BUDDLE.

A new. buddle has been invented by Mr Corbett, manager of the Moanatairi Company's battery. The buddle, in shape, is like one, of the old Cornish hand-buddies, but its construction is very different. The pair working at the Kuranui are each 25 feet in length, by 2 feet 6 inches in depth, and 2 feet 6 inches across. The ; buddle head is 8 feet long, and has a gradient of 5 inches to the foot. On this incline is a'series of slide boards, or ripples 4£ inches high, and 6 inches apart. At the foot of the buddle is a slide door, or. valve, just such a shape as a damper in a furnace flue or stack. This slide is raised; or lowered by means of a toothed disc, or ratch wheel, placed at the head of the* buddle; this wheel is worked by twoi palls working off a shaft inside the battery. ; These palls aro so arranged that they catch from 1 to 12 teeth, as may be required, lfting the slide at the buddle foot gradually, so'that all heavy particles may be saved; but all mud, or discolored water, passes over it and flow's away. This new invention acts both as a buddle' and tailings pit, it will- save every particle of grit, or only mundic. At the time it was inspected, the ratch wheel was going slowly, and all the stuff saved was fit for roasting. The tailings by the way, were poming full rush from 20 head of stamps, a second buddling would leave almost pure mundic, or pyrites. The stuff left in the buddle, when the water is turned off is quite hard, and entirely free from sludge.