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Floor model and other larger corn shellers

Last revised 8/1/99


19th C. Journal Reprints

Lester Denison's corn sheller, The Franklin Institute, 1839

Francis Smith's corn sheller, American Agriculturist, 1844

Harrison's corn sheller, The Complete Farmer & Rural Economist, 1851

The Young American Corn Sheller, Rural New Yorker, 1857

J.P. Smith's corn sheller, Scientific American, 1869

A.H. Patch's post mounted corn sheller Scientific American, 1872

Curtis Goddard's corn sheller, Scientific American, 1877


A sampling of U.S. Patents for Larger Corn Shellers

Feb 16, 1815, Z. Phinney, Cairo, N.Y.

Feb 27, 1823, S. Spooner

April 9, 1824, L. Peck

Nov 1, 1825, A. Bailey

July 29, 1828, P. Grosjean

Sept 18, 1835, James Harris, Poultney, Vermont

Jan 23, 1836, W. Carpenter

Feb 13, 1836, I. Smith

April 24, 1840, Porter A. Gladwin, Chester, Connecticut

June 14, 1845, Joseph Briggs, Saratoga Springs, New York.

Feb 27, 1847, Reuben Chalfant, Westgrove, Pennsylvania

May 2, 1848, John Warrington, Damascoville, Ohio

Sept 17, 1850, Sam Graves, Springfield, Illinois

June 1, 1852, David Eldridge, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Feb 2, 1858, Joseph Lindner, Cincinnati, Ohio

June 22, 1858, W.H. Main, Liverpool, Ohio

March 19, 1867, J.B. Siddle, Caswell County, N.C.

Nov 15, 1870, Jonathan Hamilton, Kingston, Minnesota

April 28, 1874, Allen Sherwood, Auburn, New York

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