Portable Scutching Machine
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A short 1870 trade-journal article describing the "Shamrock" portable hand flax breaker and scutcher, built by J. E. Hodgkin of West Derby, Liverpool, and shown at the Royal Agricultural Society show at Oxford. The text explains the fluted breaking rollers, the ratchet-and-pawl mechanism that gives a longer forward than backward stroke, and the separate scutching blades driven by a second handle. Page 2 is an engraved illustration of the machine with labeled parts.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- July 15, 1870
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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