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Attachment for Ginning-Machines. (open access)

Attachment for Ginning-Machines.

Patent for improvements in attachment for ginning machines: "provide mechanical means for conveying the cotton and seed that is delivered from the gins through pneumatic tubes to the baling room and see house" (lines 15-19).
Date: August 31, 1897
Creator: Coursey, Netter R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Band Tightener (open access)

Bale-Band Tightener

Patent for a bale-band tightener, for "baling-presses; and its object is to provide a new and improved bale-band tightener which is simple and durable in construction and arranged to permit the operator to conveniently place the bands in position and fasten the ends together after the bale is pressed." (Lines 7-13)
Date: October 5, 1897
Creator: Duval, John L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin. (open access)

Cotton-Gin.

Patent for a saw-cleaning attachment for cotton gins. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 20, 1897
Creator: Griffin, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin. (open access)

Cotton-Gin.

Patent for "improvements in cotton-gins, and more particularly to that class of saw-gins in which the brush-cylinder is dispensed with and a combined suction-fan and doffer employed to remove the lint from the gin-saws; and the object is to simplify the construction and at the same time increase the effectiveness of this class of gins." (Lines 11-18)
Date: September 28, 1897
Creator: Heffner, John H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator. (open access)

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

Patent for a machine that allows the user to simultaneously cut down and plow cotton, or perform either task separately. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 5, 1897
Creator: Hargrove, Byron Lafayette
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper with adjustable choppers and axles, so that the distance between the hills of cotton and between rows of hills of cotton can be variable. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: February 9, 1897
Creator: Miller, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton-chopper meant to be the most simply constructed. The hoes are attached to a rotating cylinder in the center of the frame, and the hoes rotating is what chops the cotton.
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Hopkins, Benjamin F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopping wheel which can be attached to any style of plow or cultivator. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 9, 1897
Creator: Rusk, William Thomas.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper that is "cheap, durable, have as few parts as practicable, and be easily assembled" (lines 13-15). The device uses hoe-carrying shafts and a main-drive shaft, and the hoes elevate and depress to chop the cotton.
Date: May 4, 1897
Creator: Moore, John Neally
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a new and improved Cotton Chopper, which explains what it is used for and what the new improvements are.
Date: October 19, 1897
Creator: Hyland, Robert R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton - Chopper. (open access)

Cotton - Chopper.

Patent for a new and useful improvement in cotton choppers machine as the attachment to cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 16, 1897
Creator: Richter, Frank L.
System: The Portal to Texas History