US Patent: 15
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| Cotton-Planter
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Patentee:
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| Henry Blair (exact or similar names) - Glen Ross, Montgomery County, MD |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Aug. 31, 1836 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Abstract:
A beam four feet long, rising in front six inches to the end of which is attached a clevis, and screw wrench mortised into the front ends of the side pieces, three inches from the ends are two cross pieces, the front ns of which is two feet six inches long, three inches broad, and one, and three fourths inches thick. The second six inches deep by two and a half width is tenoned into the side pieces, two feet six inches from the front of the front cross piece, into the center of which is tenoned the beam, one foot three inches back is a similar cross piece, and twelve inches back another, into the centers of which is tenoned a short beam through the center of which beam is let a movable bar ten inches long, with a bolt, and tap, attached to the lower end of which is a concave press cover ten inches long, twelve wide in front, and nine back. Three feet seven inches from the front ends of the side pieces is a dropping glender, two feet eight inches long, and six inches in diameter reduced to a square axle at each end, which is received into the hub of a wheel, three feet high, and dished three inches. The cylinder has holes on its periphery, which may be of any number, and of such size as to contain one or more seed, and grooved one inch from each end, and half inch deep to receive the head blocks, which are twelve inches long, eight deep, and two and a half wide, and the side pieces are cut in to receive the cylinder behind the head blocks, and to the side pieces and framed in the usual way, the handles with the upper ends two feet above the frame.
Claim:
The reversion of the disk of one or both wheels, so as to command the different distances of the rows, and the shifting of the plows from the inside to the outside of the side places, and vice versa, so as to throw a wide or narrow ridge. |
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