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Improvement in Machines for Sprinkling Cotton-Plants.
Patent for a wheeled, horse-drawn machine, "whereby plants are firs dampened with water and then overspread with poisonous powder, the latter being caused by the former to adhere to the plant" (para. 9).
Date:
January 6, 1874
Creator:
Robinson, William T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bailing-Presses.
Patent for an improved bailing press consisting of "a novel arrangement of levers, connecting-bars, and cords, in combination with the follower and windlass, whereby the follower is worked in the downward direction for pressing, and in the opposite direction for elevating it to recharge the press, by the said windlass" (lines 5-11).
Date:
January 2, 1872
Creator:
Randolph, Jeremiah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Roller-Index.
Patent for "improvements in combined spring-rollers and cabinet for ledger-index sheets," (lines 10-12) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 6, 1891
Creator:
Nance, John D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk Plow.
Patent for a revolving disk plow that pulverizes the soil. The plow is especially designed to prepare the soil for cotton and cultivating between rows of crops. It has a tongue, a cross-bar with a sloping edge, spindles set at an angle to the cross-bar, disks mounted on the spindles, a double scraper for the disks, a gage-wheel, and a pivoting and locking lever on the tongue.
Date:
January 28, 1896
Creator:
Campbell, Singleton
System:
The Portal to Texas History