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Collection
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18,572
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887
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Rescuing Texas History, 2019
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The Civil War and its Aftermath: Diverse Perspectives
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States
Decade
Month
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-Standard
Patent for a cultivator standard which allows the pitch and angle of the cultivator to be adjusted.
Date:
July 2, 1912
Creator:
Yeatts, Edward D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Cultivator
Patent for cultivator. Illustrations included.
Date:
September 20, 1904
Creator:
Harper, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator.
Patent for an improved cultivator that is easy to guide and operate, possesses increased durability, and is inexpensive to construct.
Date:
January 3, 1911
Creator:
Foster, John H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaning Machine
Patent for an improved cotton cleaning machine.
Date:
May 6, 1919
Creator:
Brune, A. & Stone, C. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Delinter
Patent for a durable and inexpensive machine that remove cotton seed from lint.
Date:
October 21, 1919
Creator:
Young, Edwin H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Pest-Poisoner
Patent for an insect destroyer specifically designed for use in the treatment of cotton plants. The cotton-pest poisoner is in the form of a powder that can be scattered over the plants.
Date:
September 28, 1920
Creator:
Saladiner, Joseph M.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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-Treating Machine.
Patent for improved cotton treating machine that separates cotton fibers from seeds. This cotton treater keeps the cotton fibers long when separating the seeds, including illustrations.
Date:
January 21, 1919
Creator:
Cassel, John L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker
Patent for a vehicle-mounted cotton picker.
Date:
March 18, 1919
Creator:
McEachern, S. D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker
Patent for cotton picking in relation to the picking needle that is capable of longitudinal movement.
Date:
January 8, 1918
Creator:
Johnson, Billie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Linter
Patent for a new Cotton-Seed Linter (relates to a new and useful form of cotton seed linter) which operates efficiently in and about oil mills or other places where cotton seed is reduced to commercial products.
Date:
July 8, 1919
Creator:
Voorhies, Felix E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Linter
Patent for the improvement of cotton lint linter parts and construction. Improvements to the parts remove cotton seed lint before entering the lint conveying flue.
Date:
August 20, 1918
Creator:
Henry, Nelson B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Tramper.
Patent for a cotton tramper that allows the plunger mechanism to operate automatically when needed to enhance the item's utility.
Date:
September 7, 1920
Creator:
Jacob, Ernst A. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Linting Machine.
Patent for Improvements of the Cotton-Seed-Linting Machine. This improvement will allow for better stripping and cleaning of cotton lint.
Date:
February 20, 1919
Creator:
Voorhees, Flex E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker.
Patent for a high-yield cotton picker that removes cotton from the bolls without damaging the plants.
Date:
April 15, 1919
Creator:
Johnson, Frank Edward
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Wheel-Plows.
Patent for "invention has relation to improvements in attachments to sulky and other horse-plows" (para. 3). Combines a circle-plate, transverse clamp-ridge, clamps, a bearing plate, a king-bolt, a transverse sleeve, an axle, adjusting collars, and transporting-wheels on said axle.
Date:
December 21, 1878
Creator:
Cummins, John Randolph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Ejector for Presses.
Patent for new and useful Improvements in Bale-Ejectors for Presses
Date:
September 21, 1880
Creator:
Riesel, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Ejector for Presses.
Patent for the improvement in cotton-bale presses or compressors; and it has for its object to provide a means whereby the bale, after being properly compressed, will be automatically ejected from the press, as more fully hereinafter specified.
Date:
December 7, 1880
Creator:
Riesel, Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment to Cotton Gins.
Patent for a new and improved attachment for cotton gins. This design "consists of a lever-frame journaled to the gin-frame and carrying a shaft provided with a friction-pulley which may, by will of the operator, be thrown in contact with the driving-pulley of the gin, thus rotating the shaft, which is provided with a set of cleaning-blades fitting between the gin-saws between which they are, by the said mechanism, made to revolve rapidly, thus cleaning the said saws" (lines 18-27).
Date:
April 26, 1881
Creator:
Steward, Francis Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale Band Tightener.
Patent for a new and improved bale-band tightener. This design "is to produce a device by which one person may with ease draw a band tightly around a bale of cotton or other merchandise, in place of one that has by accident been broken" (lines 12-16).
Date:
January 8, 1884
Creator:
Willis, Robert L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bale ejector for presses
Patent for an improvement in cotton bale compresses
Date:
October 18, 1881
Creator:
Henry Riesel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Box.
Patent for a new and improved baling box. This design consists "[i]n a baling-box, the bottom board having cleats and end board and fixed standards that reach above the end board in combination with the hinged side boards and end board hinged to [another] board, [those] boards being provided with cleats that reach beyond the edges of the boards to receive the loops" (lines 87-94).
Date:
September 23, 1884
Creator:
Bulkeley, Oliver
System:
The Portal to Texas History