Patent Model for the Improvement in Picking Cotton
date: label: date made
content: ca 1882
label: patent date
content: 1882-10-31
name: label: inventor
content: Rawl, David
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: David Rawl, of Batesburg, South Carolina, submitted this model with his patent application for an improvement for picking cotton 1882 to the United States Patent Office. The mechanism could be wheeled over the top of a cotton row. A frame is balanced over wheels and as the picker is moved the stalks are guided through spindles where the boll is removed and the cotton drops into a carrier.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: South Carolina, Batesburg
topic: label: Subject
content: Cotton
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture and Natural Resources
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Agriculture
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content: Invention and the Patent Model
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content: Patent Models
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.266884
label: catalog number
content: 266884
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 266,884
objectType: label: Object Name
content: patent model, cotton picker
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tinned iron (overall material)
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content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 cm x 42 cm x 37 cm; 11 1/32 in x 16 17/32 in x 14 9/16 in