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27. LOOM for WEAVING PALM-LEAF BONNETS. Invented by Abner
Bedell of Union Village, Ohio
28. SILK-REELING MACHINE. Invented by Abner Bedell, 1837.
(Iron vessel and furnace for this machine invented by Thomas Taylor
or Union Village)
29. APPLE-PARER "which quartered and cored the fruit 11 Invented by
Sanford J. Russell
30. REVOLVING OVEN. Invented by Eldress Emeline Hart, Canterbury.
31. METAL PENS. Invented by Isaac Youngs, New Lebanon. The first
pens were made of brass and silver, 1819. "Machinery for rolling
the brass and silver plate and shears for cutting the pens were home
inventions. "
32. Machine "for cutting and bending machine card teeth and punching the
leather for setting. " Invented at New Lebanon by Benjamin Bruce
FLAT BROOM. "Invented" at Watervliet by Theodore Bates
34. Improved LATHE with "screw feeder" for turning broom handles.
Invented at New Lebanon by Jesse Wells
35. Machine for SIZING BROOM-CORN BRUSH. Invented at Harvard.
36. Improved KILN FOR DRYING CORN.
37. Machine for FILLING SEED BAGS. Invented at Watervliet.
38. "PRINTING PRESSES for Printing Seed Bags and Herb Packages"
Invented at Watervliet and improved at New Lebanon.
39. Machine for FILLING HERB PACKAGES. Used and probably invented
at New Lebanon.
Andrews quotes White and Taylor ["Shakerism: Its Meaning and Message"]
as saying "Nearly all of their many valuable inventions have been unpatented.
To the Shaker, patent money savors of monopoly, the opposite of the Golden
Rule. "