1862 London Exhibition: Catalogue: Class IX.: Hunt and Pickering
2135. HUNT and PICKERING, Goulding Works, Leicester.
Corn crusher mills, root pulpers, oil cake breakers, ploughs, rakes, whippletrees, etc.
1 An improved corn crusher or kibbling mill, for crushing beans, peas, oats, barley, Indian corn, wheat, etc. Two solid steel rollers with fluted surfaces are made to pass each other at different velocities, by which the corn is crushed with little power, and to any required size.
They are made in the following order:-
- No. 3, for one man, will crush per hour (making 50 revolutions per minute), 2 bushels of beans, 7 pecks of oats. Price £4-7-6
- No. 4, for two men, will crush per hour (making 50 revolutions per minute), 5 bushels of beans, 3 bushels of oats. Price £5-5-0
- No. 5, for power only, will crush per hour (100 revolutions per minute), 22 bushels of beans, 12 bushels of oats. Price £7-0-0
- No. 5B, as No. 5, but mounted in brass and highly finished. Price. £8-8-0
Size exhibited No. 4.
2. An improved disc root pulper, for reducing roots to a pulp for feeding cattle, possesses the following points-
1st. Strength, with efficiency and simplicity, no gearing or wheels required.
2d. Can be set to produce any size pulp.
3d. The cast-steel knives are removable, to allow of sharpening, etc.
4th. Requires less power than any pulper publicly tested.
5th. Prices moderate.
- No. 6KS, for one man, will pulp 8 cwt. Per hour. Price £4-10-0
- No. 8KS, for two men, or power, 12 cwt. Per hour. Price £5-5-0
- No. 12KS, for two men, or power, 1.5 to 4 tons per hour. Price £6-0-0
Pulleys extra according to size.
Size exhibited No. 8KS.
3. An improved oil-cake breaker, for breaking oil cake in pieces for feeding beasts, sheep, lambs, calves, etc. Is so arranged that it can be instantly set to any of 9 different gauges, without altering the depth of gearing; has movable hopper for pieces, and screens the dust in falling.
- No. 3, for one man, with wood hopper. £3-5-0
- No. 4, for one man, with iron hopper. £3-10-0
- No. 5, or one man, with iron hopper for cotton cake £3-12-6
Size exhibited No. 4.
4. A patent iron plough, possessing many important improvements, being the result of a quarter of a century's practical experience in plough manufacture.
1st. Every part is readily accessible and simple.
2d. Proportionate strength is obtained throughout, without any obstructions upon the beam.
3d. A new and novel mode of pitching the share.
4th. Every movement is given to the wheels, by two screws and clips.
5th. The patent oil box wheels exclude grit and retain the oil.
6th. The coulter is straight and readily sharpened, every required movement being given by a novel adaptation of the circular wedge.
- W. H. A. Light land plough with 2 wheels. Price £4-5-0
- Extra for steel furrow turner. £0-6-0
- Ditto patent wheels. £0-5-0
- W. H. B. General purpose plough. £4-10-0
- Extra for steel furrow turner. £0-7-6
- Ditto patent wheels. £0-5-0
Plough exhibited is W. H. B.
5. A pair of Russell's patent oil box plough wheels, by which the grit is entirely excluded from the axle, and the oil retained; a valuable addition to the plough.
Price, land wheel, 4s. furrow wheel, 6s. 6c1. complete with axles.
A section is also exhibited showing the construction.
6. A set of improved link whippletrees, so arranged that the strain is equally divided throughout, enabling them to bear double the resistance of the ordinary whippletree. Price, per set of 3. 12s. 6d.
7. An improved couch-grass or twitch rake. A simple arrangement by which great strength is obtained, without much weight; is readily repaired with new teeth, and may be said to be everlasting. The teeth are of solid steel. Price,
- Without handles 3s. Od.
- Handled . . 3s. 6d.
8. An improved iron sack barrow, in which both axle and wheels revolve independent of each other, enabling them to be turned upon a barn floor without injury.
- No. 3, general size, 12s. 6d.
- No. 4, large size, l3s. 6d.
9. A Leicester garden seat; composed entirely of wrought iron and wood. The ends or supports are made from one piece of iron curved to the required shape, on which are bolted the back and seat which are of wood, thus forming one of the most simple seats ever produced. Each seat is finished equal to coach painting.
Prices from 18s. upwards.