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Threshing machine. A threshing machine in operation. 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. Before such machines were developed, threshing was done by hand with flails: such hand threshing was very laborious ...
Feb 9, 2011 · How a Threshing Machine Works. The first threshing methods involved beating grain by hand with a flail, or trampling it by animal hooves. An early threshing machine, patented in 1837 by Hiram A. and John A. Pitts, Winthrop, Maine, was powered by horses walking on a treadmill. Improvements were made to the original machine until late in the 1800s.
Thresher, farm machine for separating wheat, peas, soybeans, and other small grain and seed crops from their chaff and straw. In most farm regions, threshers were largely superseded by combines during the 20th century. Learn more about threshers with this article.
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Thresher is parked and set to the level desired. The two vertical tubes auger and further clean the grain. On the left the straw blower inspection door is open. For it to operate properly the unit must be level sideways with a slight elevation towards the front to assure that the crop is moving back.
Threshing. A farmer in India threshes grain by hand. 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.
Threshing machine. The thrashing machine, or, in modern spelling, threshing machine, was a machine invented by Scottish mechanical engineer Andrew Meikle for use in agriculture. It was designed (c.1796) for the separation of grain from stalks and husks. (image credit) The 1881 Household Cyclopedia said of this machine,
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This separation was done inside the thresher by a combination of a grid which allowed the grain to drop through and a fan which blew the chaff elsewhere. The grain then fell down a shoot into waiting sacks, suspended at one end of the machine as seen in the picture below. Grain being delivered into sacks at one end of a threshing machine.
