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Crank For Drilling Machines (open access)

Crank For Drilling Machines

Patent for a crank used with drilling machines. Illustration included.
Date: December 18, 1906
Creator: Engleman, John Hickman
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator-Tooth Adjuster. (open access)

Cultivator-Tooth Adjuster.

Patent for a cultivator tooth adjuster that can be set to different angles.
Date: December 27, 1910
Creator: Kirk, Carrol D.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaning Cultivator Attachment (open access)

Cotton-Cleaning Cultivator Attachment

Patent for improvements to cotton-cleaning cultivators. The improved cultivator "is designed for cleaning cotton or similar crops so as to eliminate the necessity of hoeing cotton," (line 14-16) uproot unwanted surrounding plants, and level ridges formed while cultivating cotton.
Date: December 29, 1917
Creator: Hasting, Thomas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin or Linting-Machine (open access)

Cotton-Gin or Linting-Machine

Patent for machine to "provide means for removing lint cotton from the gin saw teeth" (lines 11-12) and "provide efficient means for taking care of the cotton after it leaves the saw teeth." (lines 14-19)
Date: December 3, 1918
Creator: Hodo, Wesley A. J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Tramper (open access)

Cotton-Tramper

Patent for
Date: December 14, 1915
Creator: Murray, Russell
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Harrow (open access)

Cotton Chopper and Harrow

Patent for "a cotton chopper, the combination, with the wheeled vehicle, of the side and central section-bars carrying the inclined knives, the handles secured to the central section, and double rack connecting said handles, the adjusting-levers pivoted to the central section, and the pivoted perforated arms connecting the levers and outer section bars" (lines 40-47).
Date: December 26, 1882
Creator: Roberts, George W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Elevator. (open access)

Cotton Elevator.

Patent for a new and improved cotton elevator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a frame, a suction-pipe having one end bent downward to receive the seed cotton and the other end terminating in an upwardly-extending dust flue, and a suction-fan having its suction and discharge at the periphery, of a perforated screening-cylinder, an endless belt which co-acts with the cylinder to deflect the cotton into the discharge pipe, and a blowing-fan in the latter for forcing the seed-cotton to the gins" (lines 48-58).
Date: December 24, 1889
Creator: Swinnerton, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker Finger. (open access)

Cotton-Picker Finger.

Patent that improves on existing design of cotton-picking spindles by using an elastic material instead of bristles. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 12, 1891
Creator: Canuteson, Ole
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator. (open access)

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

Patent for an improved combined cotton chopper and cultivator.
Date: December 15, 1896
Creator: Summers, Dewett C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Handling Apparatus (open access)

Cotton Handling Apparatus

Patent for a cotton handling apparatus. Illustration included.
Date: December 19, 1905
Creator: Tidwell, Albert F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator (open access)

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator

Patent for a cotton chopper and cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date: December 10, 1907
Creator: Higgs, William A. & Hamilton, Morgan S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Compress. (open access)

Cotton-Compress.

Patent for cotton compress that can continuously form cylindrical bales.
Date: December 19, 1899
Creator: Griffin, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin-Saw Cleaner. (open access)

Cotton-Gin-Saw Cleaner.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cotton gin saw cleaners, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 12, 1899
Creator: Mapes, Joseph Calvin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin Feeder and Cleaner (open access)

Cotton-Gin Feeder and Cleaner

Patent for cotton gin feeder and cleaner in which cotton passes over the screening surface by means of a picker-roller.
Date: December 9, 1902
Creator: Seifert, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Compress (open access)

Cotton Compress

Patent for improvements to the cutting mechanism in cotton compresses to "provide positive and reliable means for severing the full-grown or completed bale from the remaining column of compressed material and yieldingly supporting the said remaining column of compressed material under pressure to permit the baling operation to continue" (lines 21-27).
Date: March 26, 1900
Creator: Griffin, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for improvements on cotton choppers, primarily consisting of "a pair of oscillating hoes swinging in opposed relation and supported in vertically adjustable bearings suspended from a main frame" (lines 11-14).
Date: December 14, 1915
Creator: Strong, Harold
System: The Portal to Texas History