224 Description of a Machine for removing Earth«

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hese ditches, but this operation being too laborious to be done in the common Way, ot t00 expensive, the earth is com- monly left in its original täte, as thrown out.

This machine wbich is. Simple and cheap, will at a very moderate expence, obyiate this inconvenlence.

The description is as follows; referring to the anmnexea en- graving. Figure 1. represents tbis machine intended to re- move 1005e earth from one part of the land to another.

A, is the pole to which the cattle are attached wbich draw the machine, and which is ten feet long, and three inches diameter. BB are the two branches, parallel to the end 0 wbich are attached the«chains which Serve to Sustain In 2 moveable manner, the plank, which will be noticed; they are three feet eight inches long, and the Same thickness as the pole. CCCC arethe pins, which being Strongly held by their ends, serve to hold fast tbe parallel branches to:the pole. is a hole, in which is placed the Small Shovel, Bg. 4, neceSSary 10 clean the plank when the earth remains attached to it in any considerable quantity, and prevents the Sledge fig. 3 from

ogliding along, which, placed by its mall end above the Said hole, Serves to Support the machine by means of the cross piece E, 6g. 1 and 2, to remove;t to the field in the state It IS at ig. 2. E a wooden bar, placed to prevent the Separation of the two parallel branches, and also to bear upon the Sledge which will be mentivned. FF, boles to-place an iron pin when MB ars attached. Gs. tINe Prall, fÜr feet long, fif- teen inches wide, and two inches thick, which Serves to trans- port the earth, or rather to drag it.. HH, iron chains, which placed by one extremity in each of the parallels and attached by the iron pins, and by the other extremity in the plank,

Hold it united to these 5ame parallels in a moveable manner.

1. aplate of iron, fixed to the plank with nails, he heads of

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LL, the two bandles, or tails, two feet long, which Serve to

direct the plank or Slider, and even the whole machine. M,

a 5mall wooden cros5s-piece, to hold firm the two bandles. NN,

pins, which hold the Said handles firm to the plank. 4

Fioure 2. represents the Same machine, but in the state It ED WENT NAS MSCHATSEU WE earth, which it bas removed 10 the' place intended, which is done Simply'by letting fall ibe two handles on the two parallels.

The Jetters"A.>BB, CCCC,'D; EB, FF, G, represent the game things as In 19. 1: HH, are be pins of the Sides pas- Sing through the rings ofthe choins behind the plank, which Checked by the parallels, holds them firmly. I[I1L, are tbe gäme rinos. NN, are the two handles, wbich Serve to di- ett the machine... O, me Small erv58-pleCe tO keep the hban-