Cotton Planter. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Cotton Planter.

Creator

  • Inventor: Byers, Anthony Walter
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Byers, A.W., of Sherman, Texas.
  • Inventor: Dorser, James Carrol
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Dorser, J.C., of Sherman, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Ruckner, W. H.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Doane, S. O.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1882-01-24
  • Acceptance Date: 1882-01-24
  • Submission Date: 1881-09-10

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton planter. This design "consists in the combination, with the slotted hopper-bottom, of the hinged and curved cut-offs and their spring, whereby the escape of seed will be prevented, except as forced out by the prongs of the feed-wheel" (lines 19-23).
  • Physical Description: [2], : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject

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

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Grayson County - Sherman

Relation

  • References: 233,725

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: 252732
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth170289

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 252,732, dated January 24, 1882. Application filed September 10, 1881. (No model.)"
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