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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: Lewill2 on October 19, 2012, 07:38:19 PM

Title: Easy Whatsit
Post by: Lewill2 on October 19, 2012, 07:38:19 PM

No cheating looking up the patent. What is it?

Title: Re: Easy Whatsit
Post by: john k on October 19, 2012, 08:03:26 PM

Hmmm, how big are the squares?  one inch, 3 inches?   No clue right now.

Title: Re: Easy Whatsit
Post by: leg17 on October 19, 2012, 08:37:34 PM

Something to do with corn?

Title: Re: Easy Whatsit
Post by: jimwrench on October 19, 2012, 09:43:22 PM

 looks like prestons corn husking implement in jim moffet's book on corn shellers . jim gives patent as 206609. haven't looked up patent to see if this is it.

Title: Re: Easy Whatsit
Post by: Lewill2 on October 20, 2012, 06:53:19 PM

Jimwrench got it. Jim Moffet states that it is often thought to be a corn sheller but the patent states it is a husking tool.

Title: Re: Easy Whatsit
Post by: rusty on October 20, 2012, 07:06:57 PM

I would have never guessed what that was...looks like a shoe horn ;P

The patent elucidates a bit more...

"In husking corn by hand, the hand in which
the ear of corn is held soon becomes bruised
and sore from the ear of corn rubbing against
the top of the band while breaking it from the
stalk.

 As my device is intended to be applied
to the hand in which the stalk is held, this
difficulty is overcome, and the ear is severed
from the stalk by grasping the stalk tightly
between the fingers and shank C, the teeth or
sharpened edge of the top plate penetrating
the stalk, so that by a slight transverse move-
ment of the ear of corn the stalk is readily re-
moved."

I guess that makes it an edge tool ;P