Improvements in Flax Dressing.
Cllßi.sTCHCKcli, to-day. C. Chinnery, flax mill proprietor, Rangiora, has perfected an appliance for dressing phormium tenax to a quality us fine as silk, and has applied for a patent. The machine embraces improvements in the feeding roller of strippers, and in the table for removing stripped flax, and comprisesin the same machine all the requisite parts to turn the flax out dressed, only requiring two men to attend to it. It will turn out three tons per day. Mr Chinnery is now erecting one which will be completed as soon as possible, many of the parts having to be imported. The inventor has devoted his intention to this machine for the last 15 years. BIbnHKIM, to-day. Tlie Uev. T. S. Grace's flax fibre dryer, newly patented, has just been tried with eminent success. It consists of a wood and wire frame work, and can be erected at a very small cost.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5579, 26 September 1889, Page 2
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