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Title: The Plough, the loom and the anvil
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU Skinner, John S. (John Stuart), 1788-1851 Skinner, F. G Finch, Myron
Subjects: Agriculture Farm buildings Farm supply industries Farm equipment Industrial arts CHR 1848-1857 PRO Earle, Murry (donor)(copy 1) PRO Pardee, Calvin (autograph)(vol. 2, 9)(copy 1) PRO Mahony, M. B. (autograph)(vol. 1)(copy 2)
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.S. Skinner
Contributing Library: University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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the top andpasses across the top of the sluice, so that navigation is wholly cut off.The p resent improvement consists in hinging the gate at the bottom,so that it may be made to turn down level with the ground either byforce or by the incoming of the tide, thus leaving the sluice open forvessels to pass thi-ough. Universal Lathe Chuck. By Michael Neckerman, of Pittsburg,Pa.—The design of the inventor of this improvement is to permit thecentreing of an object in lathe either on its centre or eccentrically, asmay be desired, without inconvenience. Most chucks are so arrangedthat the article cannot be centred eccentrically without takuig thechuck apart to alter the position of the jaws; after use thechuck must again be taken to pieces to restore the parts. In the pre s-ent invention there is an ingenious arrangement, whereby the chuckmay be instantly altered to hold the object eccentrically or otherwise,at pleasure. 178 American Patents. MACHINE FOE CUTTING OUT BOOT AND SHOE SOLES. ^1
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■oi American Patents. I/Q MACHINE FOR CUTTING OUT BOOT AND SHOE SOLES. It has been a slow and tedious process, hitherto, to cut out soles for bootsand shoes. The material is hard, and the work is otherwise awkward and in-convenient. We exhibit to our readers a new machine for this work, whichwill be regarded by the craft as offering them a great benefit. One boy will doas much with it as ten men can do without it. The following description willbe easily understood in connection with the engraving: The leather. A, previously cut out into the usual rough form, is laid uponthe block, B, which rests upon the cogged sole carriage, C. D is a driving-pinion, which gears with C, and causes it to move around on the surface of thetable, E, bringing the leather in contact with knives, to be presently described.Pinion, D, is put in motion by means of a worm wheel and screw, below thetable, E, on the fly wheel shaft, F ; the power is applied to the crank G. Thesectional view, fig. 3, shows the m

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