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Patch for Cotton Bales. (open access)

Patch for Cotton Bales.

Patent for a patch for cotton bales. The invention provides a solution for the need to cut a slit in a cotton bale to see to the cotton's quality. This cotton bale patch serves as a way to fasten these slits in production to prevent loss or theft of the cotton product.
Date: January 7, 1919
Creator: Louis, Rube B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cutting Apparatus for Corn-Harvesters. (open access)

Cutting Apparatus for Corn-Harvesters.

Patent for a cutting apparatus for a corn harvester, which allows the rotary wheel to be closer to the main driving shaft.
Date: January 7, 1908
Creator: Tilson, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator

Patent for an Acetylene gas generator with an improved building method for holding the carbide tank above the generator tank.
Date: January 7, 1908
Creator: Walsh, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Loading and Weighing Device. (open access)

Cotton Loading and Weighing Device.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient cotton loading and weighing device for wagons. It can be easily put onto or removed from any wagon. This invention has a unique way of "clamping-loop or wire support by means of which the main inclined beam or support of the device is firmly and securely upheld and braced with relation to the tail-gate of a wagon with which said clamping frame or loop is adapted to engage" (lines 25-31).
Date: January 7, 1896
Creator: Paolucci, Henry Emanuel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cotton Plows. (open access)

Attachment for Cotton Plows.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists, "with the plow-stock provided with a staple near the lower end of the standard, having an opening formed with a series of parallel sides, and a staple on the beam . . . consisting of a series of bails of the fender-plate rigidly secured to the rod, the lower end of said rod being formed in cross-section of a series of parallel sides, said end adapted to fit and be adjusted in said staple, the upper end of the rod being adapted to be adjusted in any one of the bails of the staple" (lines 7-18).
Date: January 7, 1890
Creator: Collier, Johnathan T.
System: The Portal to Texas History