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Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date: March 2, 1909
Creator: Hyland, Robert R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Topper. (open access)

Cotton-Topper.

Patent for a cotton-topper, which attaches to a cultivator.
Date: July 2, 1907
Creator: Ray, Arthur Taylor
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent for a churn in which a can has an opening in the center of its lid, in which a dasher-staff fits. The can fits in a frame. There are two parts to the frame, the part that rotates the can, and the part that holds the churn in place. The frame also holds the dasher-staff and a crank to rotate the can's frame.
Date: February 2, 1897
Creator: Everhard, Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement. (open access)

Agricultural Implement.

Patent for "agricultural implements to be used for tilling the soil and planting, either separately or at one and the same operation, and has for its object to reduce the expense incurred by the general practice of first preparing the land for planting and subsequently sowing the seed. By this inventions the land can simultaneously prepared and the grain deposited therein." (Lines 8-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 2, 1897
Creator: Dycus, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press. (open access)

Baling-Press.

Patent for a baling-press that means "to provide a simple and efficient power for operating the plunger so constructed as to allow independent return movement of the plunger to avoid loss of time in the operation of the device" (lines 9-13).
Date: June 2, 1896
Creator: Davis, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Listing-Plow (open access)

Listing-Plow

Patent for a new listing plow that is "cheap and simple construction and readily adjustable to form wide or narrow beds and to be used in bedding of cotton or corn" (lines 11-13).
Date: August 2, 1892
Creator: Leatherwood, Calvin Nathaniel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cultivators &c (open access)

Attachment for Cultivators &c

Patent for a stalk cutter attachment for cultivators.
Date: July 2, 1912
Creator: Janosek, John A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Planter and Cultivator. (open access)

Improvement in Combined Planter and Cultivator.

Patent for an improvement in combined planter and cultivator that can be can modified for use in a cultivator, a gang breaker-plow or a seed planter. Includes illustration and description.
Date: September 2, 1879
Creator: Brown, Joseph M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hillside-Plow (open access)

Hillside-Plow

Patent for improvements in the construction and design of hillside-plows.
Date: April 2, 1889
Creator: Bunnell, Marcellus Jackson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Holdback for Vehicle-Thills. (open access)

Holdback for Vehicle-Thills.

Patent for a "simple, inexpensive, and efficient" (lines 12-13) thill. A portion of the harness usually required is not necessary with this thill, and the horse cannot kick an occupant of the vehicle.
Date: March 2, 1897
Creator: Mays, Livingston M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Overalls (open access)

Overalls

Patent for overalls. Illustration included.
Date: March 2, 1909
Creator: Melasky, Seth A.
System: The Portal to Texas History