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Patent No. 356323A: Machine For Picking And Separating Hops

January 18, 2015 By Jay Brooks

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Today in 1887, US Patent 356323 A was issued, an invention of Franklin Leonard, for his “Machine for Picking and Separating Hops.” There’s no Abstract, and the description is hard to read, as well, but it’s a “new and improved Machine for Picking and Separating Hops from the Vines.”
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Filed Under: Just For Fun, Politics & Law, Related Pleasures Tagged With: Brewing Equipment, Hops, Law, Patent



Comments

  1. Adam says

    January 19, 2015 at 9:33 pm

    Ah, when machines were built to last and labor wasn’t exported to another continent.

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