US Patent: 8,429X
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| Straw Cutter
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Patentee:
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| Stephen Ustick (exact or similar names) - Philadelphia, PA |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Oct. 03, 1834 |
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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. Only the patent drawing is available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
For a Straw Cutter; Stephen Ustick, city of Philadelphia, October 4.
"There is, we think, considerable novelty in certain parts of this machine, but it has the fault of too much complexity. The straw is to be contained in a trough, in the usual way, and is to be fed by fluted rollers of cast-iron. The knife stands horizontally, or nearly so, across a frame to which it is firmly attached. The lower edge of this frame rests upon ways, which form an inclined plane, and, consequently, as the frame slides, the knife descends with a drawing motion. To cause the frame to slide backwards and forwards, there is a pitman, worked by a crank, on the shaft of a flywheel in front of the machine.
The claim is to the arrangement of the bottom of the trough; the opposing edge; the feed rollers; the position of the knife; the direction of the knife frame collectively; and the position of the machine, as above described.
Although there is enough in this machine upon which to found a claim, the foregoing appears to us defective in claiming individual parts which are not new, instead of depending, almost exclusively, upon the arrangement and connection of those parts, in which its novelty principally consists. The feeding rollers, as such, are not new; nor is an opposing edge, to resist the cut of the knife. We have carefully looked over the specification, but are far from having a clear idea of what is included in the arrangement of the bottom of the trough; if this part contains any thing peculiar, it is not explained."
Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 15, May 1835 pg. 313. |
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