Resource Type

Mote-Board for Cotton-Gins. (open access)

Mote-Board for Cotton-Gins.

Patent for an invention that improves mote boards for cotton gins by causing the "impurities and dust thrown off by the centrifugal action of the brush to be conducted away by a dust passage" (lines 19-22).
Date: May 29, 1917
Creator: Wooldridge, James L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cut-Out. (open access)

Cut-Out.

Patent for a telephone wire cutout for use in manually grounding the telephone line during a storm.
Date: March 29, 1910
Creator: Smith, James L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator (open access)

Cultivator

Patent for a cultivator for carrying plows. Illustrations included.
Date: November 29, 1910
Creator: Stovall, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History