Improvement in Cotton-Choppers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Choppers.

Patent for "a device that will chop cotton mechanically" (line 10-11) and require less labor including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 5, 1915
Creator: Crum, Martin A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Storage System. (open access)

Storage System.

Patent for storage system to store goods without using ice or any other material for lowering temperature. This design uses strategic air circulation to achieve the desired low temperature.
Date: August 5, 1902
Creator: Rector, John Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milk Cooler. (open access)

Milk Cooler.

Patent for a new and improved milk cooler. This design "has relation to that class of devices for keeping vessels containing milk or other fluids cool, in which water is drawn by capillary action from a receptacle onto a cloth wrapped around the vessel, cooling the vessel and its contents by evaporation; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a device, and more particularly to the top of the can and the cover for the same" (lines 21-30).
Date: April 5, 1887
Creator: Jowell, George Ratcliff
System: The Portal to Texas History