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McCormick Reaper

By: Alan Kriegermeier

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The Inventor

  • Cyrus McCormick was a farm raised boy out in Virginia.
  • His dad made useful farm gadgets to make farming easier.
  • His father tried to make the reaper many times but failed.
  • The reaper is a horse or tractor drawn machine that harvest grain a lot easier.

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Timeline of Inventor

  • Born in virginia on February 15, 1809
  • Later die on May 13, 1884 in Chicago as a very wealthy man
  • He moved to Chicago for the business, it was growing and his product works well in midwest soil.
  • He married a Lady named Nancy Fowler in 1853

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The Invention

  • His dad tried to make the reaper but failed.
  • Cyrus made a Successful reaper in July of 1831.

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The Invention Cont.

  • The Reaper works by the lower blades cutting the crop.
  • The big top blade that rotates sweeps the crop off the bed on the ground in ling stripes so they could pick them up and put on long flat trailer.

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How it Works

Blade sweeps wheat off the Bed.

Bed where wheat lays until sweep off

Blade that cuts base of wheat.

Teeth to have wheat in rows and cut easier.

Seat for driver.

Connects to horse or ox.

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Why the reaper was made

The reaper was made so farmers could harvest their wheat faster and work less. They use to use a thousand year old design that could only be used by hand and only produce a archer or two a day. Reaper could do 12 archers a day or a archer an hour.

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Patent of the reaper

  • They couldn’t use reaper as there patent so they called it the Mechanical Reaper. They got it patent In June of 1834. The business was not the McCormick Brothers they also changed to McCormick Harvesting Machine so other family members can contribute that helped make the reaper like their father Robert.

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The Invention in our world today

  • If we didn’t have the reaper working when it was we wouldn’t have the technology we have today. If you think of the corn combine it has teeth in the front like the reaper

Teeth

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Citation

  • Google Doc of McCormick Reaper by Alan Kriegermeier
  • “Phil Ament”, Reaper History, http://www.ideafinder.com.
  • Google Images