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Doffing Brush
Patent for providing "a brush the doffing elements of which are held firmly between the saws and the gin". (Lines 10-12).
Date:
December 5, 1918
Creator:
Wooldridge, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Draft-Equalizer
Patent for a draft equalizer for vehicles drawn by three horses. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 12, 1911
Creator:
Tedder, Iverson, G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Door Check
Patent for door-check
Date:
February 17, 1913
Creator:
Weatherford, Frank. W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Cutter and Insect Killer
Patent for improvements to mechanical cotton stalk cutting and insect destroying apparatus. The machine's object is "cutting the stalks into small pieces, and the crushing the stalks so as to crush and destroy insects which may be upon the withered stalks." (lines 26-29).
Date:
September 5, 1922
Creator:
Batla, Thomas H. & Holan, Heny J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination . . . of the main frame and plow or plows, curved plate slotted and perforated . . . and rigidly secured to said frame, a horizontal lever passing through the slot of the same and pivoted to the main frame, a spring-bolt and operating devices, a vertical bar pivotally suspended from said lever, and a carrying-wheel having one of its spindles bearing in the lower end of the bar, together with a depending bar secured rigidly to the frame and having a pivotal depending link" (lines 1-12).
Date:
September 2, 1890
Creator:
Stuart, Isom & Stuart, Bronick
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Curtain-Hanging Apparatus.
Patent for an apparatus to hang curtains in pairs, designed in a way so that the curtains "may be simultaneously moved in opposite directions to open and close the same" and "to provide improved means for adjustably connecting each curtain to the supporting-pole, and also to provide improved means for hanging the pole" (lines 13-19), including illustrations.
Date:
April 9, 1901
Creator:
Cloud, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "is to provide a device to enable the shovels of the cultivator to yield when they strike an immovable object—such as a stone or stump—and thereby prevent the cultivator-shovels from being broken, and more especially in time-saving in readjusting the shovel for plowing" (lines 14-20).
Date:
April 13, 1886
Creator:
Eubanks, Thomas Jefferson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Separator.
Patent for a new and useful cotton seed separator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 28, 1898
Creator:
Garrett, James Andis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Foot
Patent for a cultivator foot. Illustration included.
Date:
June 11, 1907
Creator:
Ferriott, Charles L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Cutter
Patent for a cotton stalk cutter. This invention is designed for cutting cotton stalks while mounted on an axle, consisting a frame whereby the cutter could be adjusted.
Date:
January 4, 1910
Creator:
Hallmark, Ples C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picking Needle
Patent for a cotton picking needle that relates to machines for picking cotton. More particularly to a novel form of picking needle especially designed for use in connection with a picking machine of that type shown for example.
Date:
June 19, 1917
Creator:
Johnson, Billie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement
Patent for an agricultural implement. This invention is a "novel construction of standard and plow-point, cultivator shovel, rake-tooth, or like implement" (lines 11-14). Illustrations included.
Date:
November 22, 1904
Creator:
Herrod, Howard H., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for an improvement in cotton-press to form cylindrical cotton bales, including illustrations.
Date:
December 31, 1901
Creator:
Bessonette, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton or Hay Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling-press. This design consists in "[a] duplex cotton or other press comprising connected pressing-boxes, each having a loose lower platen and platen-supports on its sides, devices . . . for raising said lower platens, a truck for supporting said boxes, traveling wheels or rollers journaled to said truck and having bevel or V-shaped treads or peripheries, a track mounted upon suitable supports and having a V-shaped or recessed top face to receive and guide said wheels or rollers during the reciprocatory movements of said truck and the thereto-connected boxes" (lines 15-27).
Date:
April 26, 1887
Creator:
Berry, William Robert
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design "consists in the improved machine . . . wherein a series of rods actuated by the main carrying-wheel are intermittently projected beyond the periphery of the latter at or about the time they approach the seed hopper, so that they may enter said hopper and cause the seed to be fed to the drill-tube" (lines 17-24).
Date:
November 12, 1889
Creator:
Johnson, Thomas J. & Mitchell, Joseph L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Planter.
Patent for a cotton planter by using a pivoted spring-actuated tongue that has a feed-slot and regulating-slide to plant cotton or corn seeds easily and quickly. Illustration is included.
Date:
February 3, 1891
Creator:
Schofield, James Drommond
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive cotton press that gets cotton from a gin, forms it into a soft bat, and compresses it into a bale. The operator can tie a band around the bale. It consists of a frame, rollers, and gears.
Date:
February 21, 1893
Creator:
Bessonette, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for an improved, inexpensive, and simple cotton press that is "adapted to compress cotton at the initial point of ginning and in a continuous operation with that of ginning, whereby [the inventor] avoid[s] the expense and labor occasioned by the handling of the cotton during its storage and transportation to the neighboring compress and the expense of said compression, and at the same time produce such compression or condensation of the cotton that I am enabled to secure the cheap rates of transportation accorded cotton which has been compressed to the standard degree of density" (lines 11-22).
Date:
November 21, 1893
Creator:
Bessonette, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker
Patent for cotton picking in relation to the picking needle that is capable of longitudinal movement.
Date:
January 8, 1918
Creator:
Johnson, Billie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press
Patent for Baling Press
Date:
August 4, 1903
Creator:
Jones, Isaac V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press
Patent for a baling press. This invention provides a lever and connection to move the plunger to the sliding fulcrum. Illustration included.
Date:
October 2, 1906
Creator:
Woodward, Lemuel A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Packer.
Patent for a new and improved cotton packer. This design consists in "the combination of a reciprocating plunger having an upright frame formed with a cross-piece at its top, a drum having means for revolving it in opposite directions, a chain attached to the plunger and to the drum winding upon the same, a spring secured at its middle to the cross-piece of the plunger-frame, and chains secured to the ends of the spring and to the drum winding upon the same in opposite direction to the chain from the plunger" (lines 93-103).
Date:
March 1, 1887
Creator:
Dulaney, John Thornton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Compress.
Patent for a cotton-compress in which the "cotton is fed to the compress direct from the gin, and is wound into a dense cylindrical bale, and the said invention consists in certain novel means for adding additional pressure to the bale as it is being rolled up, in readily detaching the finished bale from the machine, in providing a reservoir for the surplus cotton, when the gin is running and the machine has stopped" (lines 14-22).
Date:
November 27, 1894
Creator:
Bessonette, Charles L. & Bessonette, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "wheels, axles, shafts, and plow-beams of a cultivator, of the bar pivoted to the plow-beams, the lever-handle pivoted to the bar, the hoe on the lower end of the lever handle, the [other] shaft, the cam on said shaft, the jointed lever having its forward end forked and its rear end slotted, the gear wheels, the clutch, the [other] lever, and the catch" (lines 66-74).
Date:
October 26, 1886
Creator:
Rector, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History