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Breast for Cotton-Gins. (open access)

Breast for Cotton-Gins.

Patent for improvements in breasts for cotton gins: " My invention relates to certain improvements in the construction of gin breasts for cotton gins and consists in providing in conjunction with a gin breast an adjustable "up-per circle" to facilitate the formation of the roll, to prevent the seed cotton from overflowing from the gin breast as the roll rotates, and preserve the proper degree of contact between the gin saws and the roll" (lines 12-20).
Date: April 10, 1894
Creator: Schulze, Andrew
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupler. (open access)

Car-Coupler.

Patent for a car-coupler, with illustrations. The purpose of this patent for a car-coupler was to improve existing car-couplings by providing, "safe, convenient, and expeditious means for readily coupling and uncoupling sections of cars with the danger incurred of getting between them" (lines 12-16).
Date: April 5, 1887
Creator: Williamson, John A., Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Stalk-Cutter and Plow. (open access)

Combined Stalk-Cutter and Plow.

Patent for a combined stalk cutter and plow, which has a stalk cutter on the front and a plow on the back.
Date: August 3, 1909
Creator: Peeples, Rufus P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Exterminator (open access)

Boll-Weevil Exterminator

Patent for a boll weevil exterminator, which rids cotton plants and bolls of insects and exterminates them. Illustrations included.
Date: January 14, 1908
Creator: Watkins, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cotton-Weighing Scale. (open access)

Automatic Cotton-Weighing Scale.

Patent for an automatic cotton-weighing scale that is designed "to be used in connection with pneumatic conveyers, and it is of such construction that it will automatically weigh any amount that its scale may be set at, cut off the supply from the conveyer, empty itself, and immediately reset itself, the resetting of the machine opening the supply-valve from the conveyer, so that the weighing operation can be repeated" (lines 13-21).
Date: July 9, 1895
Creator: Schulze, Andrew
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Lister or Breaking Plow and Seed Planter (open access)

Combined Lister or Breaking Plow and Seed Planter

Patent for Combined Lister or Breaking Plow and Seed-Planter.
Date: March 31, 1903
Creator: Sylvester, C.T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History