| US Patent: 8,861 
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| Thrashing Machine | 
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| Patentee: |  |
 | Joseph Thompson (exact or similar names) - Chili, Monroe County, NY |  
 
 
 
 
| Manufacturer: |  | Not known to have been produced |  
 
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| Granted: | Apr. 06, 1852 |  
 
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                        Joel Havens
 
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| Description: |  | Abstract:
The nature of my improvements consists in feeding the grain to the machine in a more desirable manner, together with the arrangement for separating the grain from the straw, whereby a more perfect separation and saving of the grain is attained, without injury to the same.
Claim:
The novel arrangement for separating the grain from the straw by which the slats h, h, h, h, provided with teeth have a rotary and lateral motion, said motion produced substantially as described, or in any substantially equivalent manner, in combination with the inclined slats e, e, e, e, whereby by their combined action the grain is perfectly and rapidly separated from the straw. |  |