Cotton Seed Planter. (open access)

Cotton Seed Planter.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-seed planter. This design "is to promote accuracy and uniformity in the planting of cotton-seed and to secure the depositing of the seed in moist soil. The invention consists in the combination, with the frame, the drive-wheel, and the hopper, of gear-wheels connected to the drive-wheel, a shaft, a feed-screw working in the hopper, and a tube inclosing the rear part of the screw, whereby the seeds will be fed out one at a time by the advance of the machine" (lines 17-27).
Date: October 17, 1882
Creator: Hopper, Thomas Pinkney
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Harvester. (open access)

Cotton Harvester.

Patent for improved cotton harvester consisting of the parts, constructions, arrangements, and combinations of parts. Patent includes figures for parts in several views.
Date: October 15, 1912
Creator: Upshaw, Lucius L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a riding cultivator, which has beams that can be swung from side to side.
Date: October 12, 1909
Creator: Upshaw, Foy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Packer. (open access)

Cotton Packer.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-packer. This design "relates to an improved machine having for its object to convey the lint or cotton from the gin-house to the press, and to subject it to a preliminary compressing or packing process, the object being to dispense with the manual labor usually called into requisition for this purpose" (lines 24-30).
Date: October 21, 1884
Creator: Steele, Asa Maxey
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Distributer for Gin-Feeders. (open access)

Cotton-Distributer for Gin-Feeders.

Patent for a cotton-distributor that moves cotton from a wagon or storage and evenly and quickly distributes it to multiple gin feeders in a line.
Date: October 17, 1893
Creator: Davis, Micajah R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churning-Machines (open access)

Improvement in Churning-Machines

Patent for improvement in mechanisms in operating churns. Includes a crank wheel and spindles for churning, as well as a better balanced upright position.
Date: October 14, 1879
Creator: Haile, James T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automobile Windlass. (open access)

Automobile Windlass.

Patent for improved Automobile Windlasses. It is a combination of horizontally disposed tubular sections on the right and left hand, an improvement in the windlass attaching mechanism.
Date: October 11, 1921
Creator: Davis, Marion A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Concrete-Mixer. (open access)

Concrete-Mixer.

Patent for a concrete mixer that keeps the materials low to the ground and has improved mixing and delivery mechanisms.
Date: October 3, 1911
Creator: Foley, Charles H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead Fastening. (open access)

Bedstead Fastening.

Patent for a new and improved bedstead fastening. This design "consist[s] in the locking-pin, the sections which are . . . provided with the laterally projecting alternating studs . . . having aligned vertical perforations to receive the said locking-pin, and their faces provided with the outer beveled flanges at the base of the studs, extending the entire length of the sections, so that when the sections are connected together they will meet each other in angular form, whereby the strain on the locking pin and the lateral studs is equalized" (lines 59-70).
Date: October 7, 1884
Creator: Stewart, John Adkerson
System: The Portal to Texas History