Cotton Cleaner and Separator. (open access)

Cotton Cleaner and Separator.

Patent for cotton cleaner and separator. This will allow cotton to be cleaned without twisting or tangling, while removing dust, dirt and leaves.
Date: February 14, 1922
Creator: Hillmann, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence. (open access)

Fence.

Patent for a new and improved fence. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the fence-wires, the stay-rods having their lower ends fitted in the ground and provided with a series of steps or rests fitted to the fence wires, a series of tie-wires securing the fence-wires to said steps, and braces twisted around the stay-rods near the upper ends thereof and having their ends secured to buried anchors" (lines 59-66).
Date: February 7, 1888
Creator: Lott, Arthur
System: The Portal to Texas History