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Cotton-Picker for Forming Mattress-Bats. (open access)

Cotton-Picker for Forming Mattress-Bats.

Patent for improvements in cotton-pickers for forming mattress-bats is to prepare the cotton to be light and elastic when the cotton is compressed into mattress-bats. Illustration is included.
Date: April 29, 1902
Creator: Morgan, John W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coupling for Connecting Handles to Tools (open access)

Coupling for Connecting Handles to Tools

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Couplings for Connecting Handles to Tools" (lines 5-7) with description and illustration.
Date: July 29, 1902
Creator: Suttle, Willis A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Auger. (open access)

Auger.

Patent for a new auger designed "to provide a construction in which the parts may be adjusted to cut angular holes entirely through a body, and also to cut angular countersinks concentric with cylindrical openings, such as are made for the reception of the square heads of bolts lag screws, &c.," (lines 10-16), which includes illustrations and instructions.
Date: April 29, 1902
Creator: Bundy, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Loco-Exterminator. (open access)

Loco-Exterminator.

Patent for a tool that removes Locoweed and other plants.
Date: April 29, 1902
Creator: Knight, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of Baling Cotton. (open access)

Process of Baling Cotton.

Patent for improvement in process of baling cotton is to “heat the cotton-bat at a point between the gin-condenser and the pressing-rollers, exposing the heated bat while incompact to the action of dry air, then compress the cotton-bat into bale form.” (Page 2, lines 39-43) Illustration is included.
Date: April 29, 1902
Creator: Reagan, Edgar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Scraper for Asphalt Cooking Drums (open access)

Scraper for Asphalt Cooking Drums

Patent for a tool to facilitate the cleaning of the interior of asphalt cooking drums in order to prevent clogging, with illustrations.
Date: July 29, 1902
Creator: Nelson, John P.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Roller-Press. (open access)

Roller-Press.

Patent for roller-presses that form cylindrical bales from cotton-bat delivered from the gin-condenser to the press. The invention is meant to make the structure more compact and lighter, with greater strength and capacity; to relieve friction; to automatically change pressure as the bale increases; to form the bale without a core; and to improve various aspects of completing the bales.
Date: April 29, 1902
Creator: Reagan, Edgar
System: The Portal to Texas History
Jeweler's Tool. (open access)

Jeweler's Tool.

Patent for improvements in jeweler’s tools by “comprising a tubular handle, a reciprocatory punch-stem extending through the handle and beyond both ends thereof, a retracting spring seated within the handle and engaging with the stem, a punch-needle having a socket member detachably engaging one end of the punch-stem, and a cap detachably fitting one end of the handle over the end of the stem opposite the punch-needle.” (Page 2, lines 5-[13]) Illustration is included.
Date: April 29, 1902
Creator: Nilson, Albert A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator. (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator.

Patent for an acetylene gas generator, which is chiefly operated by the fall of a gas-bell.
Date: July 29, 1902
Creator: Ray, Samuel W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a combined cotton-chopper and cultivator.
Date: July 29, 1902
Creator: Forister, John H. & McAda, James N.
System: The Portal to Texas History