Resource Type

Lint-Cotton Feeder (open access)

Lint-Cotton Feeder

Patent for the collection of cotton, monitoring the amount of cotton lint being received, creating certain actions when those amounts are reached, including detailed instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 20, 1904
Creator: Hague, James Arthur
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Power Press. (open access)

Horse-Power Press.

Patent for improvements in horse-power presses by using a combination of a “frame and a shaft mounted therein, carrying an eccentric provided with a groove, of a packing-rod having a pivoted arm, carrying a roller working in said groove.” (Lines 87-91) This newly designed press is “reversible—that is to say, the eccentric may be rotated to the right or left and the same result produced on the packing-rods and in equally as effective a manner.” (Lines 75-79) Illustration is included.
Date: October 20, 1891
Creator: Willis, William Beale
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn (open access)

Churn

Patent for a churn suspended on a pendulum.
Date: October 20, 1903
Creator: Fitzhugh, Cameron S.
System: The Portal to Texas History