Sheller, corn
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- OBJECT TYPE
- BURRAL
- DATE
- 1840
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1969.1087.001
- MANUFACTURER
- SMART, JAMES
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Brockville, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- CAST IRON/ WOODEN RIM ON DRIVE WHEEL
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 66.0 cm
- Width
- 45.7 cm
- Height
- 100.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Agriculture
- Category
- Crop processing
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- SMART
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Brockville
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
TO SEPARATE THE KERNELS FROM THE COB/ THIS SHELLER HAS HAD ORIGINAL FLYWHEEL REPLACED SO THAT IT CAN BE POWERED BY A GAS ENGINE & OPERATED BY ONLY ONE PERSON - Technical
-
PRIOR TO INVENTION OF CORNSHELLER, SHELLING WAS MOST TIME CONSUMING ASPECT OF CORN HARVEST/ FARMERS WENT FROM SHELLING COMPARATIVELY LITTLE BY HAND TO OVER 40 BUSHELS AT DAYUSING THE CORNSHELLER/ MORE COULD BE SHELLED IN LESS TIME BY FEWER PEOPLE - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- IN RAISED CAST LETTERS ON BODY IS: 'JAMES. SMART/ BROCKVILLE ONT/ THE BURRAL/ CORNSHELLER'/ INSIDE THE CORN SPOUT HANDWRITTEN IN BLACK IS: 'Z-111-D-819'
- Missing
- HANDLE/ FLY WHEEL/ (ORIGINAL FLY WHEEL REPLACED BY SMALLER WHEEL WITH WOOD BLOCK SKIRT)/ END OF BROKEN LEG From CA of 06/23/1997 by Pat Montero: No - Complete
- Finish
- ORIGINAL FINISH WORN AWAY, BARE METAL, RUST COLOURED REMAINS
- Decoration
- IN CENTER OF CORNSHELLER IS A RAISED CAST OF A BEAVER ON A MAPLE BRANCH THAT HAS 3 LEAVES
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SMART, JAMES, Sheller, corn, circa 1840, Artifact no. 1969.1087, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1969.1087.001/
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