Corn Sheller

Object/Artifact

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The Cardinal Collection

Name/Title

Corn Sheller

Description

A corn sheller is a hand-held device or a piece of machinery to shell corn kernels off the cob for feeding to livestock or for other uses. The modern corn sheller was patented in 1839, for a freestanding, hand-operated machine that removed individual kernels of corn by pulling the cob through a series of metal-toothed cylinders which stripped the kernels off the cob.