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Sunday, October 5, 2008
The Mystery Machine
What in the world is it?
There's a sack of grain next to it...is it a grain mill?
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
There seems to be a 4 -wheeled wagon. Oh you didn't mean that? There is a "hit-and-miss" motor connecting via a flat belt to a corn sheller. That uppermost sheet metal part that is about 30 degrees off of vertical should be swiveled about 75 degrees to a horizontal position. Ear corn is placed into that sheet metal that is sort of a pan and funnel-like form. One ear of corn is placed into the funnel junction point and inserted at about 45 degrees into an opening. Within that opening are some guide fingers that direct the ear between a rotating 3-foot diameter disk and a fixed surface. Both, the fixed and the rotating surfaces have raised pyramids that project maybe 3/8 inchs from the surfaces. There is about enough clearance to approximate the thickness of a large corn cob. Those raised pyramids "wipe" the kernals off the cob. The shelled corn falls out the bottom, hopefully into a tray or bucket. The cob is roughly transferred up above the centerline of the disk and pushed out the end. In this case, toward the motor. It might take some accumulation to force those cobs upward and outward.
This type of sheller has a flywheel effect, that once it gets turning, it trys to keep turning. This would have some advantage over those small units often found in the south. It would also work better with that "hit-and miss" motor. (both have a flywheel assist).
Grandpa Ed had one with a hand crank. The crank had a spring-loaded nested gear that would permit crank to disconnect it's rotation from that of free spining flywheel and internal disk. The sheller worked pretty well. It was also used to remove the outer green hull from walnuts, which were then left to dry.
That might be to much information.
Like most farm equipment, this could do serious injury if one was incautious.
2 comments:
There seems to be a 4 -wheeled wagon. Oh you didn't mean that? There is a "hit-and-miss" motor connecting via a flat belt to a corn sheller. That uppermost sheet metal part that is about 30 degrees off of vertical should be swiveled about 75 degrees to a horizontal position. Ear corn is placed into that sheet metal that is sort of a pan and funnel-like form. One ear of corn is placed into the funnel junction point and inserted at about 45 degrees into an opening. Within that opening are some guide fingers that direct the ear between a rotating 3-foot diameter disk and a fixed surface. Both, the fixed and the rotating surfaces have raised pyramids that project maybe 3/8 inchs from the surfaces. There is about enough clearance to approximate the thickness of a large corn cob. Those raised pyramids "wipe" the kernals off the cob. The shelled corn falls out the bottom, hopefully into a tray or bucket. The cob is roughly transferred up above the centerline of the disk and pushed out the end. In this case, toward the motor. It might take some accumulation to force those cobs upward and outward.
This type of sheller has a flywheel effect, that once it gets turning, it trys to keep turning. This would have some advantage over those small units often found in the south. It would also work better with that "hit-and miss" motor. (both have a flywheel assist).
Grandpa Ed had one with a hand crank. The crank had a spring-loaded nested gear that would permit crank to disconnect it's rotation from that of free spining flywheel and internal disk. The sheller worked pretty well. It was also used to remove the outer green hull from walnuts, which were then left to dry.
That might be to much information.
Like most farm equipment, this could do serious injury if one was incautious.
Oops, I just cut and pasted the reply from my dad. Obviously, the Grandpa Ed, would be my relative. Sorry. - Krista in LA
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