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Improvement in Cotton-Gins.
Patent for improvements in the manner in which cotton is separated.
Date:
July 16, 1878
Creator:
Etheridge, Daniel T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stalk-Cutter.
Patent for "an improved stalk cutter and has for its primary object to provide a very simple, durable, and serviceable device of this character which may be advantageously employed for cleaning a field of corn stalks as the same is plowed." (lines 9-15) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 16, 1915
Creator:
Carnes, Dudley Don
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brick-Machines.
Patent for the improvement of brick-machines, consisting in the arrangement, with the molds, of one or more valves of flood-gates in the bottom of the pugmill, for the purpose of controlling the flow of the clay into the molds, and a roller and knife upon each side of the mill for pressing the clay into the molds and dressing the tops of the bricks. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
July 16, 1872
Creator:
Houghton, Gideon H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Pickers.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Hand-Machines for Gathering Cotton in the Field" (lines 3-5), including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 16, 1856
Creator:
Shields, B. G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Earth-Auger.
Patent for an earth-auger that is more effective than other augers and can be constructed to make different sized holes. It is operated by moving two blades back and forth.
Date:
April 16, 1895
Creator:
Smith, Wiston Allin
System:
The Portal to Texas History