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States
Decade
Month
Cultivator and Harrow.
Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient cultivator and harrow. The cultivator beam has a v-shaped tooth, arms extending forward.
Date:
December 31, 1895
Creator:
White, William C. & Stevens, John C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester.
Patent for a cotton-harvester meant to pick the ripe cotton but leaves the plants or unripe cotton and to improve the construction of cotton-harvesters.
Date:
February 25, 1896
Creator:
Pickering, Charles H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for "a compress having a continuous operation, whereby one bale of cotton is being formed by the compress all the time the same is working, and thereby rendering it unnecessary to completely stop the working of the entire press for every single bale made until the bale can be wrapped and discharged out of the press." (Lines 15-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 14, 1896
Creator:
Griffin, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a cotton-press with "new and useful roller-compresses for making bales of cotton into a cylindrical or roll-form, and also having simple and efficient mechanism for continuously forming a bale all the time the compress is in operation, which result has heretofore been impossible in presses of that character employing only one pair of compressing-rolls" (lines 9-17).
Date:
June 16, 1896
Creator:
Griffin, Thomas J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picking Machine.
Patent for a sack laborers drag around the fields with them to store cotton in. It has a shoulder-strap that fits around the sack's mouth. There are two wheels, and a platform is attached to the axle. The sack is strapped to the platform.
Date:
November 3, 1896
Creator:
Armstrong, Henry T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment.
Patent for an invention "whereby a wheel-cultivator of any style, pattern, or make can be readily converted into a land-marker or planter." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 23, 1897
Creator:
Dayton, William L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Implement.
Patent for "agricultural implements to be used for tilling the soil and planting, either separately or at one and the same operation, and has for its object to reduce the expense incurred by the general practice of first preparing the land for planting and subsequently sowing the seed. By this inventions the land can simultaneously prepared and the grain deposited therein." (Lines 8-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 2, 1897
Creator:
Dycus, George W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent for a cotton press with "a roller bed consisting of a plurality of rollers in conjunction with an overlying pressure roll or cylinder, between which and the roller-bed the bale is formed by winding up the bat, as it comes from the gin-condenser, in the form of a roll" (lines 15-20). The roll-bale is unique in this patent because of its core.
Date:
March 23, 1897
Creator:
Banister, Charles
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Conveyer.
Patent for "an efficient and economical cotton-seed-conveyer system for the removal of cotton-seed from gins or linters by the exclusive and unimpeded action of an air-blast through the exhaust-flue of the fan that is ordinarily employed in connection with the usual elevator from conducting cotton into the gin-feeders." (Lines 9-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 15, 1897
Creator:
Graber, Henry W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator-Cuff
Patent for a cultivator cuff, which is directed to improvements in connections for cultivator beams, and has for its object to so construct a device of this character that the distance between the shovel standard and the beam may be regulated and adjusted, and held in position independently and without molesting the angle or fastenings which control the angle of the shovel standard.
Date:
September 21, 1915
Creator:
Forrester, Robert E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Harvester
Patent for a cotton harvester that aides in picking the most difficult part of cotton to pick by hand. Includes instruction and illustrations.
Date:
January 30, 1917
Creator:
Ford, James
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Puller and Cutter.
Patent for a cotton stalk puller and cutter machine, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1914
Creator:
Hubert, John E. & Hubert, Henry J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment
Patent for a cultivator attachment "of a plurality of cutter blades which are adapted to be adjustably secured to the supporting frame of a cultivator in such a manner as to efficiently cut the weeds and dig into the soil without injuring the plants which may pass therebetween" (lines 12-17), including illustrations.
Date:
December 21, 1915
Creator:
Doak, Clifton
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin.
Patent for an invention relates to cotton gins, and the principal object of this invention is to produce a cotton gin of small dimensions.
Date:
October 20, 1914
Creator:
Morrison, Porter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Air-Blast Cotton-Gin
Patent for airing out the lent from the brushes on the ginn. This also uses less power than the ones before.
Date:
November 21, 1914
Creator:
Ginn, Carrollvernon B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Threshing Machine.
Patent for a cotton threshing machine with wheels designed to be constructed in the cotton field and easily moved to different parts of the field.
Date:
May 29, 1917
Creator:
Patterson, Warren A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Agricultural Machine
Patent for an agricultural machine that consists of a rotary cutter and a fixed horizontal cutter. Illustrations are included.
Date:
May 9, 1916
Creator:
Evans, Lucias S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin
Patent for improved cotton gin, in particular the mote plate and wind guard. The new design allows for the mote plate to easily be adjusted, and for cotton-laden air currents to be cleared regularly.
Date:
June 6, 1916
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the rear of beam, the notched cleat, the handle cross-bar, and the hooks, whereby the hopper may be conveniently attached and detached . . . [and] [t]he pivoted gates, having extensions with a series of holes, with the hopper-bottom plate having holes besides the regular seed-outlet, and the pins" (lines 64-72).
Date:
November 6, 1883
Creator:
Lindsey, William M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Curtain and Shade Support.
Patent for a curtain device that allows for adjusting shades/curtains to different lengths or positions in order to fit the window they cover, without changing or damaging the window casing, curtain pole, or shade roller.
Date:
July 24, 1917
Creator:
Odell, William J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Culvert.
Patent for metal road culvert improvements. Light weight, but sturdy, interlocking metal sheets are used. They can be stacked for cheaper and easier shipping. The culvert allows large amounts of water to flow through.
Date:
April 22, 1913
Creator:
Youngblood, David Franklin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fuel-Oil-Controlling Valve
Patent for a new fuel oil controlling valve for locomotives, with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 27, 1913
Creator:
Sneddon, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for improving attachment for a cultivator whereby an ordinary cultivator and wherein the cutting blade is effectively held against displacement after the attachment has been applied to a beam.
Date:
August 21, 1917
Creator:
Griffice, George D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator
Patent for improvements to cultivators that allow the driver to adjust displacement in order to avoid obstacles without changing the path of operation.
Date:
September 23, 1913
Creator:
Foster, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History