Cotton Chopping Machine (open access)

Cotton Chopping Machine

Patent for a cotton chopping machine. This invention is used to thin cotton plants with revolving blades that cut and destroy plants. Illustrations included.
Date: January 29, 1907
Creator: Tucker, Samuel Houston
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper that can be used as a garden hoe. Illustrations included.
Date: January 28, 1913
Creator: Weaver,John Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper that thins out rows of growing cotton plants by destroying the superfluous plants and leaving stands at the proper intervals, including illustrations.
Date: January 6, 1914
Creator: Copeland, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window-Lock. (open access)

Window-Lock.

Patent for locking windows in place at various elevations with illustrations.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Kinsey, Columbus M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stock for Plow Trucks. (open access)

Stock for Plow Trucks.

Patent for a new and improved stock for plow-trucks. This design "provide[s] an improved stock and suitable devices for connecting a plow to any pair of wheels and axle forming a part of a wagon, by which simple additional connections a farmer may construct a sulky-plow in a cheap and simple manner" (lines 8-13).
Date: January 10, 1882
Creator: Hinson, Asa Chandler
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hame Hook. (open access)

Hame Hook.

Patent for a new and improved hame hook. This design "consists of a hook composed of two members hinged together and adapted to be clamped upon a hame-staple, one of the said members being provided with a pin adapted to project into an opening in the opposite member" (lines 14-19).
Date: January 13, 1891
Creator: Dankworth, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planters.

Patent for an improvement in cotton-seed planters, including illustrations.
Date: January 12, 1875
Creator: Miller, Benjamin, F. & Reeves, William J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame. (open access)

Quilting-Frame.

Patent for a portable quilting frame.
Date: January 9, 1912
Creator: Dalton, Gilbert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow (open access)

Plow

Patent for a plow with adjustable handlebars and a better guidance system for depth and position in the ground.
Date: January 29, 1907
Creator: Tucker, Samuel Houston
System: The Portal to Texas History