US Patent: 5,599X
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| Thrashing machine
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Patentee:
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| Enoch A. Harman (exact or similar names) - Upper Makefield, Bucks County, PA |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Aug. 05, 1829 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. There are no patent drawings available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
Patentee's address also listed as Upper Marketfield, PA.
“For a Thrashing Machine; Enoch A. Harman, Upper Marketfield, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, August 5.
This improvement consists of a vibrating breast, or pitch, formed on, or near, a quarter circle, to be supported by one or more springs on each side, either of wood, or steel, above or beneath the breast, or pitch, or by pullies, or weights.
We have copied the whole of the description of the above-named machine, and it will be seen that it is without any claim, which happily avoids what appears to us to be a very great difficulty, namely, the discovery of any novelty about it. There is a cylinder, with beaters, a hollow segment of a circle, borne up by springs, and between which and the beaters the grain is to pass; there are also feeding rollers, and a feeding apron, such as are to be found attached to the greater number of its predecessors, many of which ornament the model room of the patent office.”
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 8, Nov. 1829 pg. 329
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