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  2. Threshing machine - Wikipedia

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    A threshing machine or a thresher is a piece of farm equipment that separates grain seed from the stalks and husks. It does so by beating the plant to make the seeds fall out. It does so by beating the plant to make the seeds fall out.

  3. Threshers, pedal powered - Wikipedia

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    A simple thresher with a crank can be used to make this work much easier for the farmer. In most cases it takes two people to work these: one person to turn the crank and the other to feed the grain through the machine. These threshers can be built using simple materials and can improve the efficiency of grain threshing.

  4. Combine harvester - Wikipedia

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    IH McCormick 141 self-propelled Harvester-Thresher c. 1954–57, shown in thresher mode, with harvester dismounted For some time, combine harvesters used the conventional design, which used a rotating cylinder at the front-end which knocked the seeds out of the heads, and then used the rest of the machine to separate the straw from the chaff ...

  5. Avery Company - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Threshing - Wikipedia

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    An animal-powered thresher. Threshing or thrashing is the process of loosening the edible part of grain (or other crop) from the straw to which it is attached. It is the step in grain preparation after reaping. Threshing does not remove the bran from the grain. [1]

  7. Case Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Infuriated by the fact that he could not fix the machine himself, he set it ablaze the next day, and sent the owner a brand new thresher machine upon return to Wisconsin. [8] [9] In 1890, the Case Company expanded to South America, opening a factory in Argentina. In 1891, the company's founder died.

  8. Traction engine - Wikipedia

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    They tried again in 1849, this time without the steering horse, but the machine was under-built for threshing work it was designed for. [ 4 ] The commercially successful traction engine was developed from an experiment in 1859 when Thomas Aveling modified a Clayton & Shuttleworth portable engine , which had to be hauled from job to job by ...

  9. Frankie Faison - Wikipedia

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    In 1988, he appeared alongside Eddie Murphy and James Earl Jones in Coming to America in the role of a landlord, and won a minor role in the 1989 Spike Lee film Do the Right Thing. Faison also appeared in 1996's The Rich Man's Wife as Detective Ron Lewis. He also appeared in the 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair as Detective Paretti.