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US Patent: 5,521X
Corn Sheller
Shelling and Cleaning Indian Corn
Patentee:
John S. Gardiner (exact or similar names) - Canandaigua, NY

USPTO Classifications:

Tool Categories:
agricultural : corn shellers
trade specific : miller

Assignees:
None

Manufacturer:
Not known to have been produced

Witnesses:
Unknown

Patent Dates:
Granted: Jun. 11, 1829

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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.

"The corn is to be shelled by passing between a wooden cylinder, with projecting, spikes, and a concave segment of a curve, formed of wood, and furnished also with spikes. There are springs to adapt them to each other for the varying sizes of the ears of corn. The corn is to be put into a hopper, and carried to the cylinder by a feeding apron; it afterwards falls upon a screen, which separates the grain from the cob, and a fan completes the cleaning.

There is no particular claim, and although the machine appears to be a good one, we apprehend that it is not novel in all its parts. The first machine for shelling corn, invented upwards of twenty years ago, had a cylinder perfectly similar to the one here described, although it was, upon the whole, a much less perfect instrument."

Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 6, Sept. 1829 pgs. 182-183

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