The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1852-05-01
Iscaping Machines.

'''' ~" many fNo''' W. W. IN
N''""'N' WIN i,S"'u w MS o"'''',"s N'
"''' premium Nv '''o '"S' ia'' nc'' AZ lineage
ANU '''o W ''s"" :" NY u''i'nshS 'n us P"'eh',
tor he seems 10 ,lnlm all rights, ana The lh'en
uon and improvement ct all others | thought It
best tu let the community Know who WAS righI
anil where Mr. Mccormick got his Improvement
which IA, b,,st, so ut,ch al.,ut and Ism 10 show
"a IA, r,rr,,,. that th.v b,v. r,or. IN f.,, !,
4 ,,.. g.. n. H., ,,,,,,,,, -, -. -
,'2 - ''s ,i''.'''', ~ ",',."3s VI U,".' pa
,'",N "'" '"'N nave "h almost my o'ht'-'o'
be keeps watch OF all other manufacturing es'
nHl'~hmcnt' through hls agents and II any I'M
movement Is found II IS nj once sent 10 HIM
I'M, know. and can prove To be the case in re-
gard TO nv own and Mr. Green's machines. In
the winter Of 1851 and .. Nr. c. 4 Potter, then
in the employ of Mr. Mccormick In the fall Of
the same year was in Chicago, with my machine,
nt the Fair, and there found my IMPROVEMENT in
Nh NcCmmicks machiuo-al.o some of Mr..
Grerns-wh,h according to Mr. Dunlap's report,
his brother told the committee he &C. H. McCur-
nlicLO had patented. The committee, therefore.
thinking from this statement that was infringing
ON MFR Mccormick. rave him the first premium.
which will be seen hy referring to Mr. Dunlap's
rrpoft IN the April No of the Prairie Farmer
/ have also received "A letter from one of the
Committee acknowledging that they did me
rrcat ipiusti,, hy riyipy him III. gold medal and
lpN kA dome had they been
oruu,ini,d with the f,cts in the case / will
here insert a short extract from his letter:
clam happy 10 hear of your success in obtaining
the patent on the curved finger in your reaper more
particularly 80, as through the statement Of Mr. NJ
ComickS brother, at the lral near Chicago, NE
commute IlI you an hct 'i INJUSTICE ny ENIns nr.
nu' Wv Eu,u ii"u u,, r , j,",
n w, ', " .r ,' % ,n,
dnl Thcrcmm,t,rr also Gave Mr. NCorm,ck The
credit OF the construction OF the slckI, In fact to
sum up. they considered that you had copied after
VIZ Mctonnck'sreapera rs the cutters were SO near
ahSr. go,
q, Now; as 10 Tue ''"HN'u S'INle wn'ch an Nc-
-" t'''N mas IS'''! """l'eT' wiz "e'S .",''' ,ho
'',''n''N 81 "'''t '''t'n''oe men ~ ".'rS''N'
VINO were N''""S 20 my "Nen',nS Wv '.ar'e'
'e" Years NV anu i've I'1'S o''"'' '"' "'0o''
MICK used mem IN MS W''hm,e
EtW"y county M, vet ~ -"
aI" We" "'H"1,"''" WIN vi. Voc. H. mug
OF ottawa, La 9Al.e co, ana ms ih't'"'n Of '"e
crooked Sickle. 1--WE years ago tbs last harvest
Mr. Ho;S constructed a harvester on 'Hc iD''ty
P''h' oH' eoH'" not make IL N","' AMER many
experiments, near 'he close uI Tue harvest ne N.
Ec""" ','e c'ooAe" s'' Ne WINCH va, V''''"efe"
uS AL VINO s"" II Wo'N as " Eff't INVENTION
u'eIe o',n "',u"s In, ~ vac ,"""''! ~ w
winter OF lotN met MI h''nt' NJ '''"h
I'"''' N"'tc ne was WIZ .'"n"l",'" ''uE "'"
,I'nes' ana ne wa. using N'' 'r',''" s','Si.'
wen '''G NUN VI M i''s5 7NN'', anu "'" -
V,"' % ~ '"'S s'"-'' H''"'s'" rue ="
''."' "''"n''' "",n ne '''" me wax MS M
,F,''- ,'' ',"N'H ''"'' W., '' '",' = ,',u,'"
""''' cement l" MN ~ ''N"'''',h '"'u't 10,
using M; When returning with thl" machine |
met ~ lWr''t oi MnGn",n ana ne then '"II
me mat lie considered Nr hugS me inventor 81
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