Seed Planter. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Seed Planter.

Creator

  • Inventor: Flatau, Louis S.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Flatau, L.S., of Pittsburg, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Hopkins, G. C.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Goodjohn, F. H.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1886-01-12
  • Acceptance Date: 1886-01-12
  • Submission Date: 1885-10-08

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the frame, the rotary funnel-shaped hopper, the gear thereon, the axle and the gear of the inner fixed funnel-shaped pan, around which the hopper revolves, the apertured bottom plate in the hopper-shaped pan, the shaft connected to the hopper and revolving therewith, and a seed-operating device carried by the lower end of the said shaft over the seed-plate" (lines 98-107).
  • 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
  • Keyword: planters

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Camp County - Pittsburg

Relation

  • References: 307283

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: 334223
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth171166

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,223, dated January 12, 1886. Application filed October 8, 1885. Serial No. 179,337. (No model.)"
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