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In 1890, the Case Company expanded to South America, opening a factory in Argentina. In 1891, the company's founder died. By this time the Case company produced portable steam engines to power the threshing machines, and later went into the steam traction engine business. By the start of the 20th century, Case was the most prolific North ...
Jerome Increase Case (December 11, 1819 – December 22, 1891) was an early American manufacturer of threshing machines.He founded the J. I. Case Company which has gone through many mergers and name changes to today's Case Corporation. [1]
Threshing machine from 1881. The Swing Riots in the UK were partly a result of the threshing machine. Following years of war, high taxes and low wages, farm labourers finally revolted in 1830. They had faced unemployment for years, due to the widespread introduction of the threshing machine and the policy of enclosing fields. No longer were ...
Avery Thresher. One of their inventions was the Avery Thresher, a popular threshing machine in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The thresher was driven from the flywheel of a steam traction engine. A belt from the flywheel drove a wheel found on the thresher, separating the wheat kernels from the wheat stalks.
The Advance-Rumely Company of La Porte, Indiana was an American pioneering producer of many types of agricultural machinery, most notably threshing machines and large tractors. Started in 1853 manufacturing threshers and later moved on to steam engines. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. purchased Advance-Rumley in 1931. The company's main works ...
The drive belt: used to transfer power from a portable engine to a threshing machine. These engines were used extensively in rural North America to aid in threshing, in which the owner/operator of a threshing machine or threshing rig would travel from farmstead to farmstead threshing grain. Oats were a common item to be threshed, but wheat and ...
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[23] [24] Conversions typically involve removing specialized components for threshing and processing crops; they can also include modifying the frame [24] and controls to better suit operation as a tractor (including lowering it closer to the ground). [23] Thresher drives can sometimes be repurposed as power take-offs. [24]