Machine for Cutting off the Soiled Butts of Grain Stalks. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Machine for Cutting off the Soiled Butts of Grain Stalks.

Creator

  • Inventor: Becker, Lothar
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Becker, L., of Galveston, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Reymershoffer, Gustav
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Reymershoffer, Gus.
  • Witness: Kirschner, J. C.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1887-05-03
  • Acceptance Date: 1887-05-03
  • Submission Date: 1886-07-22

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved cutting machine for grain stalks. This design consists in a "table slotted in its middle part and slotted and recessed at or near one edge, the parallel endless bundle-carrying chains working in said slots and having arms, the chain-wheels, the shafts thereof and their supports, the circular saw in the recess at the edge of the table, the mandrel and the gage-plate" (lines 98-105).
  • Physical Description: [2], : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventions
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Science and Technology
  • Keyword: stalk cutters

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Galveston County - Galveston

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: 362244
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth171514

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,244, dated May 3, 1887. Application filed July 22, 1886. Serial No. 208,730. (No model.)"
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