The Nichols & Shepard Excello Separator and the Reason For Building It
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January/February 1955
MARCUS LEONARD
The frame of a Wood Bros, separator was constructed of straight
steel and the deck was straight. The only noticeable difference in
the design of a Wood Bros, and an Excello frame, was in the shape
of the decks. The deck of the Excello, over the beater, sloped
toward the cylinder, with a short abrupt slope toward the wind
stacker.
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The straw rack of a Wood Bros. separator was of four sections
and rotated on crankshafts. The bottom of the grain-pan was
corrugated, the shoe an end shake and the fan an undershot. All
Nichols & Shepard fans were over-shot. The Wood Bros. separator
was without a beater and the straw rack contained nothing upon
which tough straw could collect or wrap.
An Excello was nearly a duplicate of a Wood Bros, separator. The
only noticeable difference was the front end. The front end was
Nichols and Shepard. The cylinder, concaves, Man Behind the Gun,
beater and tailings elevator were Nichols & Shepard. Wood
Bros., because of the similarity of the machines, stopped Nichols
and Shepard from building Excellos.
Wood Bros. were highly honorable men and liberal in settlement
with Nichols & Shepard Company. That Company paid Wood Bros,
for the making of those Excellos. R. B. Lyman, deceased, manager
for Nichols & Shepard Company at the Kansas City Branch in 1924
said, 'Nichols & Shepard Company paid Wood Bros, by
contracting work done in Wood Bros., shops.' Wood Bros, shops
were more modern than Nichols & Shepard shops.
Nichols & Shepard Co., sold those Excellos and the reports
on them were excellent but when Nichols and Shepard had to pay for
building them that Company built no more Excellos. No company ever
received better advertising than Wood Bros., when Nichols &
Shepard Co., built those Excellos.
The next year, 1925, Nichols and Shepard Company re-designed the
frame of the steel separator. The sills were of one piece and
sloped from the front to the rear. Shafts of the cylinder, beater,
fan, wind stacker, belt tighteners and belt guide were equipped
with Hyatt roller bearings. Nearly all pulleys were fiber. The
straw rack was the regular Nichols & Shepard rack. The hangers
remained inside the separator but moved closer to the sides than in
separators made prior to 1925.
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