Pneumatic Cotton-Picker.
Description:
Patent for an improved pneumatic cotton-picker that is meant "to produce a simple machine having a cotton receiving box or vacuum box and arranged to use both a blast and suction pipe, these pipes being oppositely arranged and the suction pipe being made to deliver into the cotton box" (lines 10-17). The cotton is sucked from the plants and delivers it into a cotton box. A guide lines the machine up with the row of cotton.
Date:
May 23, 1893
Creator:
Mauermann, Gustav A.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department