Resource Type

Corn or Cotton Planter. (open access)

Corn or Cotton Planter.

Patent for a new, improved combined corn and cotton planter, including illustrations.
Date: February 4, 1902
Creator: Ferriott, Charles L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date: February 4, 1908
Creator: Gauntt, Granville B. & Floeckinger, Frank C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Cultivators. (open access)

Attachment for Cultivators.

Patent for a cotton-chopper attachment for cultivators. It can fit to any cultivator with some modification. It is a wheel that rides "upon the row and presses down into the ground parts of the cotton in the row, leaving the other standing, and of the necessary mechanism for attaching and controlling said wheel" (lines 20-24).
Date: February 4, 1896
Creator: Ray, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History