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Patent drawing of a cylindrical decorticating machine showing a vertical section with internal corrugated walls, gears, and crank handle in Figure 1, and a plan view of the large radial-corrugated rotating disk with a hand crank in Figure 2.

DECORTICATING-MACHINE.David Buist and Edward Godfried Schmidt · December 17, 1895

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