US Patent: 617,403
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| Plant Setter
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Patentee:
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| Joseph H. Masters (exact or similar names) - Chicago, Cook County, IL |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Jun. 20, 1898 |
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Jan. 10, 1899 |
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Joel Havens
Martin J. Donnelly Antique Tools
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Description: |
| Raymond & Omohundro - patent attorneys
My invention relates to improvements in plant-setters used for setting and planting tobacco, cabbage, tomatoes, and other plants that are first sprouted and grown to an early stage of development in beds and subsequently transplanted and set in rows in the field for complete development. The difficulty in successfully setting such plants is to have them properly set a sufficient depth and the roots covered and watered without damage to the plant, this work being now practically all done by hand, so far as I am informed, which requires the planter to assume a stooping, uncomfortable, and fatiguing position and which results in irregular and uncertain planting even by such method. The object of my invention is a portable plant-setter which enables the operator while in an upright position to form the hole for the plant, drop the plant securely and properly into the hole, water the same, and properly cover the roots thereof without injury to the plant, whereby the work of plant-setting is rendered least laborious, the danger of injury to the plant is reduced to the minimum, uniformity in the depth of planting and relative distance apart of the plants is promoted, and the number of plants set by each operator is greatly increased.
There were two plant setters that were manufactured. One was the Masters Rapid Plant Setter (manufactured in Benton Harbor, MI - a later version of the first) and the other was the Masters Little Giant Plant Setter.
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