Fork for Handling Cotton and Other Substances.
Description:
Patent for a new and improved pitchfork. This design "relates to a hand-fork for handling cotton in the seed and cotton-seed at the gins, as well as for other useful purposes; and it consists in the novel construction of the teeth and tines or head, together with the means for fastening the teeth to the head" (lines 9-15).
Date:
August 19, 1884
Creator:
Shannon, Joel J.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department