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About A. H. Patch
- Asahel Huntington Patch (November 18, 1825 – January 29, 1909) was an inventor, and manufacturer from Hamilton, Massachusetts. In 1872, Patch patented his first pole-mounted corn sheller.
- It was featured in Scientific American magazine in 1872.
- According to an article in the Clarksville [Leaf Chronicle] dated July 17, 1966, Patch's corn sheller was given the "highest award of the World's Fair" at the 1893 Columbian World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois for ingenuity.
- One of the major themes of the Chicago World's Fair was that of the value of corn as a crop and as a dietary staple. Patch moved to Louisville, Kentucky and later to Clarksville, Tennessee where he also invented other box shellers.
- His most famous sheller was called the "Blackhawk corn sheller."
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