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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
WILLIAM C. BROWN, OF DAVILLA, TEXAS.
COTTON-SCOOP.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 495,579, dated April 18, 1893.
Application filed October 11, 1892. Serial No. 448,528. (No model.)To all whom it 7Cnay concern:
Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. BROWN, a
citizen of the United States, residing at Da-
villa, in the county of Milam and State of
5 Texas, have invented a new and useful Cotton-
Scoop, of which the following is a specifica-
tion.
The invention relates to improvements in
cotton scoops.
to The object of the present invention is to
provide a simple and inexpensive scoop de-
signed especially for handling cotton and
adapted to have its tines yield to facilitate its
insertion in a mass of cotton.
15 The invention consists in the construction
and novel combination and arrangement of
parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated
in the accompanying drawings, and pointed
out in the claims hereto appended.
20 In the drawings-Figure 1 is a perspective
view of a cotton scoop constructed in accord-
ance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a longi-
tudinal sectional view.
Like numerals of reference indicate corre-
25 sponding parts in both the figures of the draw-
ings.
1 designates a cotton scoop having a handle
2 and provided with bottom tines 3 arranged
parallel, and having side tines 4 forming op-
30 posite sides disposed perpendicular to the bot-
tom. The tines are resilient and adapted to
readily yield when inserted in cotton to facili-
tate the handling of the same, and their outer
ends are pointed. The bottom tines have
35 their outer portion slightly curved upward to
enable the scoop to be moved over a floor or
other supporting surface without the pointed
ends of the bottom tines sticking into the
same. The scoop is provided at its back with
40 vertical parallel stop prongs 5 forming con-
tinuations of the rear ends of the bottom
tines, and closing the back of the scoop to
hold the cotton therein. The perpendicular
sides and the back stop prongs form a rectan-
45 gular basket of the scoop especially adaptedfor handling cotton. The handle 2 which
may be of any desired form is connected at
its inner end with the scoop by a downward
bend 6. The handle and the tines are secured
together by welding, or other suitable analo- 50
gous means. The outer ones of the bottom
tines 3 are formed of a continuous piece of
metal, and are connected at their inner or
rear ends by a transverse portion 8; and the
top ones of the side tines 4 are constructed 55
of a single piece of metal, and are connected
at their rear ends by a rectangular portion 9.
It will readily be seen that the cotton scoop
is simple and comparatively inexpensive in
construction, and that it greatly facilitates 5o
the handling of cotton.
Changes in the form, proportion, and the
minor details of construction may be resorted
to without departing from the principle or
sacrificing any of the advantages of this in- 65
vention.
What I claim is-
1. A cotton scoop having a handle and form-
ing an approximately rectangular basket com-
prising the parallel bottom tines, the parallel 70o
side tines forming perpendicular sides and
the vertical stop prongs arranged at right an-
gles to the bottom tines and forming the back
of the scoop, substantially as described.
2. A cotton scoop having a handle and form- 75
ing an approximately rectangular basket com-
prising the bottom tines, the side tines of un-
equal lengths forming perpendicular sides
and the upwardly extending stop prongs form-
ing the back of the scoop, arranged at right 80o
angles to the bottom tines substantially as de-
scribed.
In testimony that I claim the foregoing as
my own I have hereto affixed my signature in
the presence of two witnesses.
WILLIAM C. BROWN.
Witnesses:
A. H. KERR,
M. S. PARK.
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Brown, William C. Cotton-Scoop., patent, April 18, 1893; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173384/m1/2/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.