...During the Civil War, the Confederacy established its own Patent Office which issued 266 patents, a third of which concerned implements of war.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5167580 | Corn husker and method of husking corn A device for husking corn ears is disclosed. The device removes the husks and silks and at the same time avoids substantial damage to the kernels. The device includes a plurality of rollers and drive means which rotate the rollers at selected speeds in se... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5137493 | Corn husking machine A corn husking machine has a hollow cylindrical drum defined by a circumferential wall rotatable about a substantially horizontal longitudinal axis. The drum wall has at least one aperture therethrough which is suitable for unhusked ears of corn to pass t... | 08/11/1992 |
| 4699218 | Beet harvester with elevated, transverse discharge conveyor During the first pass across a field of row-planted sugar or red beets, the apparatus digs the beets from a specific number of rows (six being illustrated but the apparatus herein disclosed can be structured for four or five rows as well), elevates the be... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4471788 | Corn harvester A corn harvester has a chassis adapted to travel along the ground and provided on its front with a device for picking ears off cornstalks. A thresher is provided on the chassis for reducing the ears to fragments including pieces of cob, corn kernels, and ... | 09/18/1984 |
| 4307562 | Tobacco stripper nip roll A tobacco leaf stripping machine is provided having an improved tobacco stripping roller that has a radially contoured nose, a transition area and a base portion which primarily engages the tobacco leaf for stripping so as to permit tobacco leaves to be c... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4278097 | Husking machine A machine having a frame supporting multiple husking rolls which rolls jointly act on the article being processed to remove an exterior portion of the article. The rolls are arranged in pairs with at least two pairs in each processing lane of the machine.... | 07/14/1981 |