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Improvement in Band-Cutting Feeder for Thrashing-Machines.

Description: Patent for an improved Band-Cutting Feeder for Thrashing-Machines in order "to provide an improved machine for cutting the bands of gavels or bundles of grain, and feeding the same to the cylinder of a thrasher."
Date: November 5, 1878
Creator: O'Neall, James M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Band-Cutting Feeder for Thrashing-Machine.

Description: Patent for a new and improved band-cutting and feeding attachment for thrashing machines. This design receives grain bundles "upon an endless traveling apron provided with teeth or claws, and by it conveyed under rotary cutters, which sever the bands, the grain being then scattered or spread out by a vibrating rake into a thin sheet as it passes to the toothed cylinder. The invention relates more particularly to the construction and arrangement of parts" (paras. 3-4).
Date: November 27, 1877
Creator: O'Neall, James Madison
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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