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Show ——s of 2 Sae SOC 72 PLfof wi Wi fquare, for to place the two Blocks which the Side of thefalfe Beams: After they have inould join at Bottom, and be feparated by the great Ends, about two Feet above the Surface of the Ground, in fuch a Manner, moulded the Grapes with the three Poles, the Planks and the Nave, by the Help ofthe Wheel which moves the Screw, they prefs the that the Screw may be able to play between them; thefe muft be joined at Bottom to the Bag f{trongly. Thefe Beams fhould be two Feet and a Half Piles by a ftrong Dove-tail, and the Piles joined with Braces ; andnear the Top, about fifteen Inches from the Head, they fhould be thick, and if that is not big enough, they put two uponeach other, and fometimes three, if bound with Girders and Pins to keep them Nails in different Places, both on the Bed and in Front, that they may work together, as if there were but two ; and they raife at the End of the Prefs, on the Side of the falfe Beams, a {mall hanging Scaffold or Steps, to afunder, andprevent their parting : The Space betweenthe Blocks andthe Piles mutt befilled up with th, which fhould be well rammed5 thefe Girders fhould be let in feven or eight Inches to the Body of the Blocks. Inthe Middle of the Girders there fhould be a Hole to put in the Screw, which fhould it be neceflary : Thefe they join together with go up to ftrike the Quoins. Ofthe great Framed Prefs. there defcend perpendicularly, and which is rounded to this place, and leffened to a third This Sort of ‘Prefs is made like the other, Part of its Thicknefs ; and a Foot lower than the Girders ought to be a Rail plac’d asa except that inftead of the Blocks they ufe a Frame. They makeagreat Pit in the Earth Support, from Bottom to Top, in a_ Slope, for a Reft to the Screw; there fhould be on twelve Feet deep, and nine Feet Diameter, and to fupport the Earth, they build a this Rail a Plate of Iron, and an Axis to the Screw for its Play : The Screw mutt be twelve Feet long, and thirteen Inches thick at the Top; the Screw-tap, or the Extremity ofthe Spiral Line, ought to be three Inches and a Half, and fhould form an exaét Square; the Screw fhould pafs crofs a Wheel, which is placed three Feet from the Surface of the Ground, and which in this Place fhould be fquare, and about an Inch and a Half of its Thicknefs paredoff for the Play of the Wheel : This Wheel thould be joined with Spokes and ‘Curbs athwart, into which theyput divers Pegs, that they may be able, with five or fix Men, Wall of Stone all round it in the Form of 2 Well, which ought to be feven Feet Diameter, that they may place in this Space a Frame of Wood-work of a {quare Figure, joined together with Pofts, Joyces, Ground-plates and Rafters like a St. Andrew’s Crofs: In this Framethey put a folid Stone Wall of about Three thoufand Weight; then they join the Screw to the Center of the Frame, that they may be turned together, and fo keep the Beams upon the Stock of the Wheel to prefs the Grapes, in fuch a Manner asif one Man was fufpended at one End of a Pole which is made faft at the other, and in the Middle to give it the neceflary Motion. there is fomethingto prefs. Laftly, there fhould be placed at five Fee from the Bottom of the Bafon, two great Beams, wh mutt pafs between the tru the falfe Beams; thefe muft be both fq three Feet from the Ground is a Wheel, by means of which, and the Weight of the Frame, they make the Screw defcend, which lowers the Beam. The Frame fhould be ten Feet high, and ‘four Feet nine Inches fquare on each Front. Great Care fhould be taken of the Block Preffes, not to {crew them too hard, left it break the Beams and fplit them to Pieces, nothing being of greater Force than a Screw: You muft not fail to make the Dove-tails very e racks but above all, the Screw and the Nut fhould be made artificially andpared away at the great End, on thole$ where the Beams touch, where they let them into a Notch, to prevent their coming out, and at the back Part they put a Keyto fecure them from being difplaced (for they cannot put them into it) bu neverthelefs in fuch a i Manner, that they may play ngtheir Pc Beams, without char -d to their Bed, and Beams fhould be well joined with Keys, that they eannot part 1 open inf each other, for they from the falfe Beams, where they ought alfo the Scréw, to to feparate to the r give Place for it. Upon the End of thefe Beamé, muft be joined the Nut of ‘the’ Prefs with moveable Keys, that by ‘this Means it may be raifed or lowered, fo that the Beams may rife and fall as-a kind of Swing, which has the Keys for ‘its*Center, which are the falfe Beams, where ‘the great Beams’ doreft, When upon the Bafon. and the Bag whic they prefs, before the Prefs-man‘raifes he Beam, by means -of the Screw, they lower -it a little, thar »5 of the falfe Beams on the they may force the Quoins between the Beams ‘s, which is upon t ul hen they lower ic with the fame Screw from At about two or to their Work. Thefe great Preffes make at one Vat or ze, from Twenty to Twenty-five Pieces ine. One may makeit lefs by a fourth Part, and it will prefs ‘as w ‘Il, when there is not above Ten or Fifteen Pieces of Wine: In this Cafe the Pieces fhould be proportionably diminifhed in the Bignefs:from what has been deferrbed. nefs of the Pieces The Names, Length,-and T) which compofe a greal Prefs. The main Beams from Thirty-two to Thirtyfive Feet tong, -and one with another, from two-Feer and a half to three Feet thick. The Cheeks “or Side-Beams Twenty-eight Feet long, zbout-two: Feet thick at the Bottom, and eighteen Inches at the Top. 9 X The |