Platform for Harvesters. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Platform for Harvesters.

Creator

  • Inventor: Lewis, Thomas E.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Lewis, T. E., of Dublin, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Davies, T. E.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Young, W. R.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

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

Date

  • Creation: 1890-05-27
  • Acceptance Date: 1890-05-27
  • Submission Date: 1888-09-26

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved platform for harvesters. This design "has particular reference to the platform thereof or that portion designed to receive the grain as it is cut by the reaping mechanism; and among the main objects in view is to provide a platform located in rear of the reaping mechanism that is capable of being contracted and extended, and also to provide other parts that may be withdrawn inward, whereby the machine, as a whole, is decreased in width, and its passage through farm-gates from field to field and over unbroken ground is facilitated" (lines 11-22).
  • Physical Description: [2], 1 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventions
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Science and Technology
  • Keyword: harvesters
  • Keyword: platforms
  • Keyword: harvester-binders

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Erath County - Dublin

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: 428683
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth172370

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 428,683, dated May 27, 1890. Application filed September 26, 1888. Serial No. 286,429. (No model.)"
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