Grain Binder (Patent No: 212831)

Inventor: Eckert, James R.

Location: Nanton

Comments: see Mosquito Creek Round-up; biographical information; b 1857 Ohio; ranched near Bonners Ferry; m Kittie Kilbury 1893; moved to Nanton 1905; briefly owned livery stable; farmed; 1910 manager of Dyment Farms; civic politics; organizer of Nanton Co-op Association 1916; director of UGG board; d 1925

Description: Allan Thurman Lemley and James R. Eckert, co-inventors, both of Nanton, Alberta, Canada, 9th August, 1921. Filed 11th December, 1920. Receipt No. 339,950.

Claim.—The combination with the deck of a grain binder having slots therein of a shaft having an arm secured thereto against which the band portion of the grain is adapted to be compressed and additional arms adjustably secured thereto and adapted to operate through said slots to support the head portion of the grain.

Claim allowed, 1.