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Corn Planter

Description: Patent for a corn planter. This invention is simple and compact and does not require manual actuation of the drum for the dropping mechanism. It can be used for corn and similar seeds, including cotton and seeds with fibrous coating. Illustration included.
Date: November 13, 1906
Creator: Robinson, Charles William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car-Coupling.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive automatically car-coupling that holds the link in a horizontal position that the operator does not need to guide the couplings by hand. It can also be uncoupled without going between the cars.
Date: November 13, 1894
Creator: Norcross, George A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Postcard of Orange Groves, San Bernardino, California, November 13, 1955]

Description: Postcard of an orange grove in San Bernardino, California. The photo shows orange trees with hundreds of oranges and gaps of soil where some leaves and oranges have fallen. In the distance a mountain with a snow-tipped peak can be seen in front of a clear blue sky. On the back of the card is a message from George C. Scott to the Kempners discussing a meeting he had with Ralph Morton in Honolulu where Mr. Morton had nice things to say about them.
Date: November 13, 1955
Creator: Scott, George C.
Partner: Rosenberg Library

Corn Planter Attachment.

Description: Patent for a new and improved planter attachment. This design consists "of a suitable hopper which is to be attached to the side of the beam, a spring-actuated seed-slide, an extension or support which projects from one end of the hopper, a pivoted lever placed upon the extension and connected to the seed-slide at one end, a strap connected to the outer end of the lever, and the singletree to which the draft animal is secured . . . to convert any ordinary plow or cultivator into a corn-planter … more
Date: November 13, 1888
Creator: Dean, Robert A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Coin Controlled Electrical Weighing Scale.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coin-operated electrical scale. This design "relates to improvements in electrical weighing-scales that may be tripped by electricity; and the main object of [the] invention is to so arrange the electric circuit that it may be closed for tripping the indicator by inserting within the machine a coin or like-shaped metallic piece" (lines 16-22).
Date: November 13, 1888
Creator: Smith, William R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Mose M. Feld, November 15, 1944]

Description: Letter from I. H. Kempner to Mose M. Feld discussing his change of travel plans because one of the parties he wished to see in Houston will be unavailable on the original date. He also requests that Feld sign the articles of incorporation for the Hillel and return them to Rabbi Friedman.
Date: November 13, 1944
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
Partner: Rosenberg Library
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