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Improvements in Ginning Apparatus (open access)

Improvements in Ginning Apparatus

Patent for improvement to a ginning point that provides support and holds points in position for cotton gin cylinder section.
Date: July 28, 1903
Creator: Fuller, James T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press. (open access)

Cotton-Press.

Patent is for a cotton press adapted to bale cotton and other materials by compression.
Date: June 28, 1903
Creator: Fuller, James T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Fence Building Implement (open access)

Wire Fence Building Implement

Patent for a wire fence building implement. This implement is "adapted to take up slack in an unbroken fence-wire, draw together ends of a broken fence-wire, so as to permit said ends to be spliced together, cut off surplus wire, and pull staples from the fence-posts" (lines 9-15). Illustrations included.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Hall, Ed Francis
System: The Portal to Texas History