Patent for "an improved machine for making ditches and other excavations, which shall be so constructed as to separate the slice from the soil, raise it, and deposit it at the side of the cut, which will feed itself forward automatically." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
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Titles
Main Title:
Improvement in Ditching and Excavating Machines.
Added Title:
Ditching and Excavating Machines.
Description
Patent for "an improved machine for making ditches and other excavations, which shall be so constructed as to separate the slice from the soil, raise it, and deposit it at the side of the cut, which will feed itself forward automatically." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Physical Description
[2], 3 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 195,263, dated September 18, 1877; application filed July 9, 1877.
De Force, Samuel A.Improvement in Ditching and Excavating Machines.,
patent,
September 18, 1877;
[Washington D.C.].
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth166697/:
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