Process of and Apparatus for Extracting Crystallized Sugar from Bagasse. (open access)

Process of and Apparatus for Extracting Crystallized Sugar from Bagasse.

Patent for a new and improved extractor of crystallized sugar from bagasse. This design "is to save a percentage of [the] loss in the [sugarcane] juice, and also to secure a part, if not all, of the crystallized sugar from the refuse or bagasse or from any other plant producing saccharine matter. To that end [the invention] subject[s] the bagasse to a process which extracts the remaining juice and the crystallized-sugar by suction and atmospheric pressure" (lines 13-21).
Date: February 19, 1884
Creator: Yale, Thomas Blossom
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Scrapers.

Patent for the improvement of a cotton scraper "for general cultivation of drill-husbandry" (lines 17-18) and cotton crops, including illustration.
Date: February 19, 1861
Creator: Shepard, Josiah
System: The Portal to Texas History