Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, which has a hoe on one side and a cultivator on the other.
Date: March 15, 1910
Creator: Dittrich, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, which cuts faster and more accurately than other models and sends the waste cotton and weeds to one side.
Date: March 9, 1909
Creator: Winkler, Christoph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "the combination, with a draw-bar, a sliding box, a movable eccentric secured therein, a coupling-rod, and a pivoted locking-jaw, of a locking-plate secured to said box and adapted to lock the jaw against movement" (lines 84-89).
Date: March 8, 1887
Creator: Zedler, Fridrick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collar. (open access)

Collar.

Patent for "improvements in turned down collars, the object of the invention being to effect an improvement in the construction of a turned down collar so that the collar is prevented from getting over the vest, and to also improve the fit of a vest and coat in the back." (lines 8-14)
Date: March 5, 1918
Creator: Rogers, Richard T. & Rogers, R. T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine For Developing Photographic Plates (open access)

Machine For Developing Photographic Plates

Patent for a machine for developing photographic plates. Illustration included.
Date: March 12, 1907
Creator: Brown, William H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stalk Puller (open access)

Stalk Puller

Patent for a stalk puller. This invention is designed to pull cotton stalks from the ground. Illustration included.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Smith, Cullen Rogers
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Cutting Stalks (open access)

Machine for Cutting Stalks

Patent for machines that cuts rows of stalks, severing them into smaller pieces that will fall to the ground.
Date: March 20, 1917
Creator: Smith, Cullen R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sunshade (open access)

Sunshade

Patent for a sunshade to shield field workers from the sun. Illustrations included.
Date: March 10, 1908
Creator: Ridout, William L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tag (open access)

Tag

Patent for a tag. This tag is intended for use with dry goods, material bolts, and like items. Illustration included.
Date: March 17, 1908
Creator: Brown, Sampson H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Cotton Distributer and Feeder. (open access)

Seed-Cotton Distributer and Feeder.

Patent for a new and useful seed cotton distributer and feeder.
Date: March 22, 1898
Creator: Simington, Charley M.
System: The Portal to Texas History