Corn and Cotton Planter. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Corn and Cotton Planter.

Creator

  • Inventor: Williams, John W.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Williams, J.W., of Hubbard, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Williams, W. W.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Bass, W. Augustus
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Bass, W. Aug.
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1886-11-16
  • Acceptance Date: 1886-11-16
  • Submission Date: 1886-09-15

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the upright frame supported on the beam and carrying the two pivoted arms, in combination with the wheel having studs on both sides, the wires, and the lever middle fastened to the agitator-shaft . . . a hopper having the circular excision in its bottom, of the horizontal feed-wheel and arms, fast to a vertical vibratory shaft" (lines 79-88).
  • 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: planters
  • Keyword: seed-planters

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Hill County - Hubbard

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: 352595
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth171391

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,595, dated November 16, 1886. Application filed September 15, 1886. Serial No. 213,618. (No model.)"
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