Plow. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Plow.

Creator

  • Inventor: Holland, Joseph J.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Holland, J.J., of Macy, Texas, assignor of one-half to Herbert B. Taliaferro, of same place.

Contributor

  • Witness: Reed, Hugh
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Reed, William
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Assignee: Taliaferro, Herbert B.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

  • Name: United States. Patent Office.
    Place of Publication: [Washington D.C.]

Date

  • Creation: 1881-11-15
  • Acceptance Date: 1881-11-15
  • Submission Date: 1881-06-11

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "has for its object to produce a plow suitable for general purposes, of great durability and efficiency, and provided with a reversible share and landside, which are so arranged that while the point or the one and edge or flange of the other are being worn away or dulled the reversed point of the former and reversed edge or flange of the latter are being pointed and sharpened by contact with the soil through which the plow is driven, thus compensating for the wearing and dullness of the cutting-points and flanges in operation" (lines 23-34).
  • Physical Description: [2], 1 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventions
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Science and Technology
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Agriculture - Farm Equipment - Plows
  • Art and Architecture Thesaurus (Getty): agricultural equipment

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Brazos County - Macey

Collection

  • Name: Texas Patents
    Code: TXPT

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Rights

  • Rights License: pd

Resource Type

  • Patent

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Patent Number: 249727
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth170256

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 249,727, dated November 15, 1881. Application filed June 11, 1881. (No model.)"
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