Boll-Weevil Exterminator (open access)

Boll-Weevil Exterminator

Patent for a boll weevil exterminator, which rids cotton plants and bolls of insects and exterminates them. Illustrations included.
Date: January 14, 1908
Creator: Watkins, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trunk-Corder. (open access)

Trunk-Corder.

Patent for "Improvement in Trunk-Corders." (line 5-6) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: Kessee, Walter Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milk Cooler (open access)

Milk Cooler

Patent for a milk cooler. Illustration included.
Date: January 10, 1905
Creator: Walkup, John W. & Walkup, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Governor for Cotton Gins. (open access)

Governor for Cotton Gins.

Patent for a new and improved governor for cotton gins. This design utilizes a moveable suspended roll-breast and a moveable rocking frame to regulate the amount of cotton fed into the roll-box. This design simplifies and cheapens gin production, and it makes the parts of the gin more adaptable to other gins of different sizes.
Date: January 3, 1882
Creator: Forbes, Lycurgus D.
System: The Portal to Texas History