Stalk-Cutter. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Stalk-Cutter.
  • Added Title Stalk Cutter.

Creator

  • Inventor: Herring, James H.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: James H. Herring, of Murphy, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Wright, Ely
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Mangan, Thomas
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Sedgwick, C.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Witness for Illustration.
  • Other: Munn & Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: Attorneys.
  • Printer: National Lithographing Company
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: The National Lithographing Company, Washington, D. C.

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1893-12-12
  • Acceptance Date: 1893-12-12
  • Submission Date: 1893-01-28

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for an improved and practical stalk cutter that cuts corn or cotton stalks at their roots "while the machine is drawn along a row of the standing stalks, and simultaneously reduce[s] the latter to small pieces which can be plowed under the soil and serve as a fertilizer, the complete reduction of the stalks to fine fragments adapting them for quick decomposition and prevent them from becoming and obstruction to a plow or harrow used to till the soil" (lines 12-20).
  • Physical Description: [3], 7 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventions
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Science and Technology
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Agriculture - Farming - Corn
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Agriculture - Farming - Cotton
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Agriculture - Processing and Storage
  • Keyword: stalks
  • Keyword: cutters
  • Keyword: harvesting
  • Keyword: combines

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Collin County - Murphy

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

  • Accession or Local Control No: 510789
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth173595

Note

  • Display Note: Application filed January 28, 1893. Serial No. 460,139. (No model.)
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