This traditional corn sheller was designed to shell corn kernels to produce animal feed. The device made use of a simple design to save hours of tedious labour.
It operates first by feeding a whole cob of corn into the machine. Then, by turning the hand crank, the cob is pulled between the metal-toothed wheels spinning in opposite directions. The kernels are pulled off the cob and fall through a screen into a bucket placed below the device.
Unlike their hand-held counterparts which had a wider proliferation, this particular model of corn sheller was more efficient and could shell multiple cobs of corn at the same time.