raker's

The raker's work can be compared with that of a plane.

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The raker's seat therefore was just as _original_ an invention as the reel.

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His Patent of 1847, covering some four or five folio pages, is altogether to change "the construction of the machine," to admit of, and to patent the raker's seat; the substance of the whole is comprised within the following brief extract from the patent of 1847:

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1847, C.H. McCormick takes out a patent for the _raker's seat_! this

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"We are not advised at what precise period subsequent to 1843 and previous to 1847 (when C.H. McCormick patented the raker's seat), that he changed the arrangement of his wheels, etc., so as to admit a seat for his raker without 'tipping up the machine' as was unavoidable previously.

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[Sidenote: An Efficient Machine] "It was a conviction of the inefficiency of the machine that led the applicant to make his invention of 1847, which, by a modification of pre-existing elements, provided an advantageous location for the raker's seat.

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