Resource Type

Baling-Press (open access)

Baling-Press

Patent for a bailing press machine designed to be more efficient and durable. Illustrations included.
Date: December 3, 1907
Creator: Jones, Thomas A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for improvements in baling presses. Consists of improvements over prior patents 1197532 and 1229126. These improvements are primarily for operation of the compressor and also the mechanism for actuating the feeder.
Date: December 24, 1918
Creator: North, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Wheel Cultivator And Plow (open access)

Combined Wheel Cultivator And Plow

Patent for improvements to a combined wheel cultivator and plow, "whereby either mold-board plows or shovel-cultivators may be used upon a common frame" (lines 16-18). Includes illustrations.
Date: December 28, 1886
Creator: Wahrmund, Charles, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Seed-Planter, Harrow, and Plow (open access)

Combined Seed-Planter, Harrow, and Plow

Patent for "a combined seeder or planter, harrow, and plow, and to simplify the parts, so that they can easily be put together and taken apart and manufactured at little expense" (lines 16-20).
Date: December 17, 1889
Creator: Russell, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator. (open access)

Combined Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

Patent for improved construction and variability of cotton chopping and cultivating devices. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 8, 1891
Creator: Rains, Columbus R. & Lanier, Madison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Husker. (open access)

Corn-Husker.

Patent for a "simple, inexpensive, and convenient hand-operated machine employing an oscillating knife or cutter for severing the stalk or stem and at at the same time clamping the shucks, so that the ear, when turned, will effect the bursting open of the shucks, thus permitting the ready removal of the ear" (lines 8-15).
Date: December 22, 1896
Creator: Willmann, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for improvement to cylindrical baling-press for packing cotton, cotton-seed hulls, bran and similar objects into cylindrical bales, including illustrations.
Date: December 24, 1901
Creator: Jones, Isaac Van Zandt
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Blocking Attachment. (open access)

Cotton-Blocking Attachment.

Patent for a cotton blocking attachment for cultivators.
Date: December 13, 1910
Creator: Horner, John P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Compress (open access)

Cotton Compress

Patent for improvements to the cutting mechanism in cotton compresses to "provide positive and reliable means for severing the full-grown or completed bale from the remaining column of compressed material and yieldingly supporting the said remaining column of compressed material under pressure to permit the baling operation to continue" (lines 21-27).
Date: March 26, 1900
Creator: Griffin, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History