Advance Rumely Ideal Separator, 32 x 52
date: label: date made
content: 1923
name: label: maker
content: Advance Rumely Company
notes: label: Description
content: Ronald Miller of Geneseo, Illinois, donated this threshing machine to the Museum in 1988. The bright red paint that covered the machine when new had faded, but wood and internal parts were in excellent shape, a testament to the care that farmers lavish upon their machines.
label: Description
content: Smithsonian conservators decided to accept the threshing machine without restoration, and this separator threshed oats at the 1991 Smithsonian Folk Festival, pulled by a Rumely Oil Pull 20-40 tractor.
label: Description
content: The 32 x 52 designation refers to a 32-inch cylinder and the 52-inch-wide threshing shoe. The 7-ton machine was designed to have four men pitching bundles of grain into the feeder; it could thresh over 2,500 bushels a day.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, LaPorte
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
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content: Agriculture
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ronald Miller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0371.01
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0371.01
label: accession number
content: 1988.0371
objectType: label: Object Name
content: threshing machine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cast iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green, dark (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 118 in x 104 in x 366 in; 299.72 cm x 264.16 cm x 929.64 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 130 in x 101 in x 360 in; 330.2 cm x 256.54 cm x 914.4 cm