US Patent: 335,877
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| Corn-Harvester
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Patentee:
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| Charles F. Bassett (exact or similar names) - Chicago, Cook County, IL |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Oct. 06, 1884 |
| Granted: |
Feb. 09, 1886 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Abstract:
My improved machine in the form in which it is herein presented is contrived to operate upon one row of corn at a time, and consists, generally, of a main body or receptacle, A, for the severed ears, having attached to it at one side a longitudinal guide-piece, B,which passes outside of the row of corn to be operated upon and is rigidly connected with the main body.
Claim:
In a corn-harvester, the combination, with the machine-frame, of a longitudinal guide, a series of transversely-located independently movable cutters arranged with their cutting edges parallel with and opposed to thesaid guide, and a series of springs applied to hold the said cutters at the backward limit of their movement. |
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