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Mechanism for Sharpening Teeth of Cotton-Gin Saws (open access)

Mechanism for Sharpening Teeth of Cotton-Gin Saws

Patent for a sharpener for cotton gin saws granted to Robert S. Munger. This patent improves upon an earlier patent received by Munger in 1882.
Date: December 30, 1884
Creator: Munger, Robert S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed Cotton. (open access)

Apparatus for Handling Seed Cotton.

Patent for cotton house with bins and conveyors that prevent the cotton from being contaminated.
Date: December 2, 1884
Creator: Munger, Robert S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton. (open access)

Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.

Patent for a "mechanism for handling seed-cotton [...] to provide novel means for conveying said cotton directly from the wagon or from the cotton-house to the ginning mechanism, whereby the cotton is cleansed and dried during its passage" (lines 7-13). It also helps to prevent fires and contamination of ginned cotton, and to reduce labor handling seed-cotton.
Date: December 2, 1884
Creator: Munger, Robert S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton or Other Press. (open access)

Cotton or Other Press.

Patent for "that class of cotton-presses in which duplex bale or press boxes arranged to swing upon centers are adapted to be brought in line with a stationary platen and a movable follower" (lines 7-11), including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 2, 1884
Creator: Munger, Robert S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mechanism for Handling Lint Cotton. (open access)

Mechanism for Handling Lint Cotton.

Patent for a new and improved mechanism for handling lint-cotton. This design "has for its object to avoid the accumulation of dust and light particles of fiber in the atmosphere of the gin-house, to greatly reduce the dangers of destructive conflagrations in ginning establishments, to avoid the repeated handling of the cotton between the gins and the press, and to secure a more perfect separation from the cotton of dust and other foreign substances" (lines 8-16).
Date: December 2, 1884
Creator: Munger, Robert S.
System: The Portal to Texas History