SHEEP-SHEARING MACHINE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 261, 22 February 1877, Page 2

SHEEP-SHEARING MACHINE.

The following exlract from an English papi-r liives ;i desertion of the mac line imvnted by Caftan Tnrquand, of the Mouseho'd I-rL-;'..:;', for shearing a'leep :- "The invvjifcjuu is for steam or iiimiiii.il power. T;ie sheep is s cared in a moment hy pinion-ng ids legs in clasps upon the ii!oi:ii;.-d dap of a table, t!ie sheep Iving ujiou a \v<d)stiv'c T ied wit .in a frame. Wiieu o!ie side i as been clipped the s te;p is turned over almost instantaneously upon another i!;ip of a table, the clasps Wing transferred" at a stroke by spring eutc es from one tabic to tile other. The clipping too!, res.'iubling a horse-clipper, is hi Id in t!;c baud, and pasaed over ail parts of the animal, and can strip. of_ t!ie wool as close to the skin as possible, without liability to wound. Tlie clipper is actuated with a high, velocity by an india-rubber belt from a long tranverse xollev mounted overhead, the belt traversing along the roller from end to end, accordingly as guided by the position in which the clipper is held. The roller may be driven by wheel and crank, or by any motive power, It is calculated that by this machine a man clips five tinies tlis number of sheep in the same time, as compared with hand work by the common shear.-;,"