Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. There are no patent drawings available. This patent is in the database for reference only.

For an improvement in the Machine for Shelling Corn, Timothy Wellman, Jr., Brookline, Windham county, Vermont, October 9.

This corn shelling machine is, in all its essential points, the same with that which was first invented, and for which a patent was obtained, upwards of thirty years ago. It consists of a cylinder set with teeth, with a concave similarly armed, and borne up against it by means of springs, to adapt it to ears of different sizes. The claim made is to “the shell (or concave) being made capable of being elevated, or depressed, by large or small ears of corn, which enables it to shell all sizes of corn with equal facility.”

Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 15, May 1835 pgs. 317-318.

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