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Collection, Preservation and Display of Old Lawn Mowers

Various Cloth Cutter Patents

From Bulletin of The National Association of Wool Manufacturers, published in 1882.

The panel includes a crude drawing of the spiral cutter devised by Lewis (Patent No 3945, 1815) and appears to be the only one included to have this design. This was the concept that was adapted by Budding as the cutter on the first lawnmower.

  • 1490 FIG I - FIG II - FIG III - FIG IV LEONARDO DA VINCI
    1787 FIG VII HARMAR
    1798 FIG  VIII DOUGLAS
    1792 FIG XII DORR
    1793 FIG XIII DORR
    1802-16 FIG 2 AMERICA
    1806 FIG XVI SWIFT
    1811 FIG IX - FIG X JAMES MALLORY
    1815 FIG XIV PRICE
    1815 FIG XV LEWIS
    1822 FIG XXI HOBSON
    1823 FIG XVII SLATER
    1830 FIG XVIII OLDLAND

     

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    Google Books/Bulletin of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers/Vol 12/1882