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separator, were made hy Olaf Ohlsson in 1892. Since 

 then many improvements ha\'e been made hy employees 

 of the Vermont Farm Machine Company. The Sharpies 

 Separator Company of West Chester, Pennsylvania, began 

 manufacturing the Sharpies factory sejjarator, as seen in 

 Fig. 19, in 1S89. Aljont tliis time the hand machine was 

 first made as seen in Fig. 20. In 1S94 tliis company 



Fic. 20. — The first Sharpies 

 hand separator. 



Fig. 21. — The first Sharpies tubu- 

 lar factory separator. 



manufactured the tubuhir bowl machine as seen in Figs. 

 21 aiifl 22. The tul)ular macliine was de\-el()ped by 

 Herbert McCornack, P. M. Sharpies, and 1). R. Sharpies, 

 in lS9o or 1894. At about that time D. II. Burrell and 

 Company began to niarnifacture the Simplex separator 

 with the link blade iin'cnted by Hoyt of that factory. 

 Since that time many companies ha\c been organized 

 to manufacture cream separators, until now there are 



