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Show NEW EGG-TESTING MACHINE. ' Ingenious Contrivance to Do Away- with Hand Labor. An invention of the greatest interest to egg shippers abroad and egg merchants mer-chants at home was on exhibition at the Hop Exchange recently. It is an egg tester, by means of which good eggs may be distinguished from bad eggs by the score or even by the hundred hun-dred in a tithe of the time commonly consumed in testing, and with such ease that all former methods are totally to-tally eclipsed. The British public consume con-sume eggs from Denmark, Russia, Austria. France, Ireland and Canada, and except in the case of Canada the eggs are packed in cases containing layers of 180 eggs. The machine exhibited ex-hibited recently by the Lyons Standard Stan-dard Egg Testing and Grading Machine Ma-chine Company, Limited, of Manchester, Manches-ter, is intended to do away with the old system, which consisted in holding the eggs s ng y before a light. The Lyons machine tests the eggs by daylight. day-light. The eggs, direct from the packing pack-ing cases, are placed by unskilled labor la-bor in trays, each holding ninety eggs. They are then put into the feeding end of the machine and let down on rows of soft bobbins, which revolve on an endless band. The operator is seated in front of the machine, where he can turn the handle that revolves the bobbin-band. In the side of the machine is an oval window. Through it the operator looks into a reflector in the center of the machine, which is made otherwise "light tight." The eggs may be seen in the reflector one at a time, and as the handie is turned the eggs pass across the line of vision with great rapidity, every sptsck and spot in them being perfectly visible. In this manner 72,000 eggs have been tested In four hours and a half. |