Improved Flax Dresser
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A short 1865 Scientific American article describing William C. McBride's patented flax dressing machine, which cleans tangled flax and removes the woody shoove (shives) using a five-armed rotating scutching apparatus. Two mechanical drawings show an end view and a side view, and the text explains the adjustable scutching blades, dressing board, feed roller, counterbalance, and riddle for removing waste. It notes the patent date of Nov. 29, 1864.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- February 28, 1865
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
- Archive notes
- Reduced to 85% to fit on page
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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