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Gin Attachment for Bolly Cotton (open access)

Gin Attachment for Bolly Cotton

Patent for gin attachment for bolly cotton. This seeks to make the gin stands have automatic control and for disposing of hulls and waste products from the gin.
Date: October 9, 1917
Creator: Becknell, George T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method and Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton. (open access)

Method and Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.

Patent for "a method of and apparatus for treating seed cotton and compromises in its entirety a system of handling cotton as it comes from the field until it leaves the gin" (lines 9-13).
Date: October 9, 1917
Creator: Thompson, George F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Display Advertising-Machine. (open access)

Display Advertising-Machine.

Patent for an advertising display that carries a number of large advertisement sheets that are revolved and held stationary to periodically display each advertisement in repeating succession.
Date: October 9, 1917
Creator: Barnett, John B.
System: The Portal to Texas History