THE LONDON JOURNAL OF Arts and Sciences ; AND REPERTORY OF PATENT INVENTIONS. CONDUCTED BY W. NEWTON, CIVIL ENGINEER AND MECHANICAL DRAUGHTSMAN, (Assisted by several Scientific Gentlemen.) VOL. III. (CONJOINED SERIES). London: PUBLISHED BY SHERWOOD, GILBERT AND PIPER, PATERNOSTER ROW, SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL, STATIONERS' COURT; AND ST. AUGUSTIN, PARIS. W. NEWTON RUE NEUVE TO THOMAS MOORE EVANS, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, merchant, for an invention communicated to him by a certain foreigner residing abroad, for improvements in machinery for preparing and dressing flax, hemp, and other fibrous materials. -[Sealed 10th January, 1833.] THESE improvements in machinery for preparing and dressing flax, hemp, and other fibrous materials, apply to two distinct parts of the process of preparing and dressing such materials; namely, first, to the operation of scutching, or swingling, or beating away the boom or woody particles VOL. III. 2 Б |