Improved Hemp and Flax Dresser. hemp and flax and is thus described by the inventor. As the manufacture of linen goods is rapidly increas ing in this country anything tending to facilitate the Preparation of the material will be a valuable acqui sition. The d escription will render the details intel ligible to all: A is a shaft to which the power is applied through two pulleys and a gear B shown by a dotted circle to the end of the shaft of the dresser; it is also shown by a dotted circle. E is a cog-wheel on the shaft of which is a friction clutch; the wheel is geared into the large wheel F. G G are two fluted rollers and H H are dressers made with floats armed with hatchet teeth I on the edges. There is a clamp not shown in which the hemp is placed and laid in the top of the frame at K resting upon the upper catch J on the rack L. From thence it is drawn down to the table M. The hemp passing between the fluted rollers is crushed and broken and in passing down between the dressers is dressed also. The rotary motion of the rollers is then re versed by the operator with the lever attached to the friction clutch before mentioned carrying the clamp up to the dog N passing it over the top of the vi the board to the opposite side of the rack L. The buts of the hemp fall directly between the rollers. Their motion being again reversed the flax is drawn down and dressed. Another reverse of the rollers used to give the desired pressure upon the movable box. This invention was patented through the Sci entific American Patent Agency by C. G. Howard of Topeka Kansas on Sept. 6th 1864 and assigned to C. G. Howard and E. A. Goodell. For further information address them as above. Patent Laws in England. The subject of protection for inventions in the shape of patents has been much discussed in Engler d lately and divers opinions have been given as to the expediency of so encouraging inventors. A royal commission appointed by authority have recently deliberated upon the subject in
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