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Cotton Planter. (open access)

Cotton Planter.

Patent for a new and improved cotton planter. This design "consists in a cotton planter constructed with a funnel-shaped hopper, supported by a plate and frame carried by wheels, and an axle driven by a worm and worm-wheel, and held erect by a stationary tube having a flaring upper end, and carrying the furrow-opening plow. With the rotating hopper is connected a screw extending into the stationary tube, so that the seed will be fed out by the revolution of the said hopper" (lines 20-29).
Date: October 28, 1884
Creator: Flatau, Louis S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Single-Trees (open access)

Improvement in Single-Trees

Patent for "a new and Improved Single-Tree and Breast Yoke." (lines 3-4) Includes specifications and illustrations.
Date: October 3, 1876
Creator: Flatau, Louis
System: The Portal to Texas History