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1870 - SIDE DELIVERY

 

This is from an extremely rare and very large (nearly poster sized) 1892 steel engraved print illustrating developments over time in the history of hemp and flax harvesters. The engraving was done by Sackett & Wilhelms of New York. The engraving was taken from a very rare volume published in 1892 by The Commissioner of Patents and titled "The Growth of Industrial Art."

 

TEXT ON THIS POSTER INCLUDES:



HEMP AND FLAX HARVESTERS.

Hemp and flax harvesters are reaping machines resembling those for corn in their adaption to operate upon tall top-heavy stalks, and differ from them in cutting low. One form is a puller, which grasps the stalks near the ground and uproots them. Another variety is one with a low platform on wheels, with a cutter bar in front, a reel to gather the stalks to the knives and direct them over into a cradle where they are collected in a bunch. In another form the stalks are caught by an arm till a shock is collected.

The stalk puller consists of a pair of revolving disks on axes, set at an obtuse angle with each other, so as to grip the stalks, which are conducted between them at the lowest part of their revolution, and then open as they rotate, and allow the stalks to fall into a cradle on the ground.

CAPACITY

 

PRIMITIVE MODE.

PRESENT MACHINE.
Acres per day

1 1/2

10
Hands employed per day

1

1

36 Patents Granted by the United States including all scans from this poster except for the grass hook. 


SCANS OF HEMP HARVESTING AND PROCESSING EQUIPMENT:

PRIMITIVE GRASS HOOK

1838: REVOLVING PULLING DRUM & BAND

1850: 2 CUTTERS RECIPROCATING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS

1852: REVOLVING PULLING ROLLER 

 1863: RECIPROCATING PULLING JAW

 1866: STALK PULLER

1870: SIDE DELIVERY

1871: SIDE DELIVERY 

1872: STALK CUTTER

SCANS OF HEMP AND FLAX PROCESSORS:

1500BC EGYPT DRAWINGS

1780: SCUTCHING SWORD AND BLADE

1816: HEMP BRAKE

1878: HEMP AND FLAX BRAKE

1879: HACKLING MACHINE

1879: FIBER CLEANER

1879: RAMIE MACHINE

1892: HEMP HARVESTERS AND PROCESSORS - INDEX PAGE

1880: BREAKER AND SCUTCHER