Object Details
- inventor
- Rawl, David
- Description (Brief)
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ca 1882
- patent date
- 1882-10-31
- ID Number
- AG.266884
- catalog number
- 266884
- accession number
- 89797
- patent number
- 266,884
- Object Name
- patent model, cotton picker
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- Physical Description
- tinned iron (overall material)
- leather (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 28 cm x 42 cm x 37 cm; 11 1/32 in x 16 17/32 in x 14 9/16 in
- associated place
- United States: South Carolina, Batesburg
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Agriculture and Natural Resources
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Agriculture
- Invention and the Patent Model
- Patent Models
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Cotton
- Record ID
- nmah_857214
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b1-ebd6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
