Corn or Cotton Planter. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Corn or Cotton Planter.

Creator

  • Inventor: Armstrong, John Joshua
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Armstrong, J. J., of Weimar, Texas.
  • Inventor: Lowrey, Andrew Stephen
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Lowrey, A. S., of Weimar, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Rogers, A. B.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Thornton, W. J.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1889-04-23
  • Acceptance Date: 1889-04-23
  • Submission Date: 1888-08-02

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the combination, with the hopper and the seed-slide therein having one end projecting from one end of the hopper, of the reciprocating yoke having its rear portion angular in cross-section and its front portion cylindrical in cross-section and having an arm at one end to engage the opening in the projecting end of the seed-slide, the angular and cylindrical bearings for the respective parts of the yoke, whereby the latter may be unshipped from or attached to the seed-slide, and the mechanism to reciprocate the yoke" (lines 71-83).
  • Physical Description: [2], 1 p. : 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

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Colorado County - Weimar

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: 401728
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth172030

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 401,728, dated April 23, 1889. Application filed August 2, 1888. Serial No. 281,762. (No model.)"
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