Henry Synck
An example of the paddle mechanism is shown from a model 17 spreader. Oppenheim s future son-in-law, Henry Synck, worked with him to perfect the invention. In a complicated series of transactions, Textron subsequently divested New Idea to Allied Corporation, another conglomerate (White-New Idea) who subsequent divested .Why not, pondered Oppenheim, make manure do the same thing—fly out at an angle from a series of paddles? He subsequently developed a model from a cigar box and demonstrated the feasibility of distributing manure in a wide spread pattern . Oppenheim conceived the idea of a practical manure spreader during a game of paddle ball.
Oppenheim s invention was so successful that it spawned a major manufacturing company, the New Idea Spreader Works, later renamed the New Idea Farm Machinery Company in 1899. New Idea celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1999 as a division of AGCO. Henry Synck was born in Saint Sebastian, Ohio.
After months of trial and error it became obvious he (Oppenheim) had solved the problem of manure spreading... C.
Mary Oppenheim died in 1907 New Idea continued to grow and in 1908 the company moved to Coldwater, Ohio, where a railhead existed to ship the completed spreaders. An example of the Model 12 New Idea Manure Spreader demonstrates the general design.
In 1899 Oppenheim with the help of Synck invented the first mechanical manure spreader. The New Idea caught on quickly because it relieved farmers of the back-breaking chore of manually distributing manure from a wagon.
Oppenheim, Theodore Oppenheim (responsible for the development of the two-row corn picker today on display in the Henry Ford Museum), Justin Oppenheim, Wilhelmina Synck (Henry s wife), and Cecilia Selhorst. In his older age, Henry Synck sold New Idea to Avco, a conglomerate that was subsequently acquired by Textron. Oppenheim, J.
Henry Synck remained involved with New Idea. By 1918, these children of Joseph and Mary Oppenheim were on record as the persons engaged in the business of the New Idea Spreader Co.: B. He married Wilhelmina Oppenheim, the daughter of Joseph Oppenheim, a teacher in Maria Stein, Ohio.
He noted that when a player held the paddle-shaped bat at an angle, a foul ball resulted, with the ball careening off at the angle dictated by the paddle. A.
Following his death, his wife, Mary Ellerbrock Oppenheim, invested in New Idea and made decisions to move the company forward. Manure was loaded into the spreader.
He helped his father-in-law, Joseph Oppenheim, develop the first practical manure spreader. that he had created a New Idea ...and that a name and an invention had been born! Oppenheim died in 1901 and was buried in Maria Stein.
A mechanism moved the manure to the rear where it was distributed by paddles. The New Idea Spreader Works was established and built in Maria Stein.
Henry Synck was a pioneering American industrialist who participated in the development of mechanized farming.
