Planter. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Planter.

Creator

  • Inventor: Cromer, Thomas L.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Cromer, T. L., of O'Daniel, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Gerdes, Herman
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Schwarz, Heinrich
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1889-01-08
  • Acceptance Date: 1889-01-08
  • Submission Date: 1888-08-22

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a plow, of the board, the clip detachably securing said board to the plow-beam, the hopper secured to the rear end of the board and provided with the openings and brush, the lever pivoted upon the clip, the spring, the seed-slide secured to the end of the rear arm of the lever, and the dropping-tube screwed through its wing to the plow standard" (lines 37-46).
  • 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
  • Keyword: plows

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Guadalupe County - O'Daniel

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: 395694
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth171939

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,694, dated January 8, 1889. Application filed August 22, 1888. Serial No. 283,419. (No model.)"
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