Cotton Seed Planter. (open access)

Cotton Seed Planter.

Patent for a new and improved seed planter. This design "consist[s] of the hopper, the tapering feed-tube, the distributing-chamber provided with inwardly-projecting radial pins, the discharge-spout, and the shaft provided at its upper end with stirrer pins, at its middle part with a tapering feed-screw, and at its lower part with distributing pins" (lines 9-15).
Date: July 15, 1884
Creator: Hopper, Thomas Pinkney
System: The Portal to Texas History