Bale-Forming Apparatus (open access)

Bale-Forming Apparatus

Patent for an automatic bale forming apparatus that can be set to make a certain size cotton bale and will stop when it reaches that size and send the finished bale out on a conveyer belt and begin the next one.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Reagan, Edgar
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Road Building Machine (open access)

Road Building Machine

Patent for a road building machine comprised of multiple mechanisms including a blast furnace, mixing chambers, and chemical tanks.
Date: December 6, 1921
Creator: Austin, Stephen F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bale-Core-Operating Device (open access)

Bale-Core-Operating Device

Patent for bale core operating device which improves the bale core quality around which the bale is formed, including illustrations.
Date: July 16, 1918
Creator: Taft, John A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a machine that can be drawn along a row of cotton to chop the adjacent plants and cultivate the ground under the machine. The device is height adjustable by the operator.
Date: April 12, 1921
Creator: Schwab, Bruno; Schneider, Richard & Hoegenauer, Haver
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner And Feeder (open access)

Cotton Cleaner And Feeder

Patent for a cotton cleaner and feeder. It is designed with an intermediate of a chute and cotton-gin to feed the cotton to the gin. Illustrations included.
Date: November 24, 1903
Creator: Seward, Marion F. & Seward, Joseph H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Condenser. (open access)

Cotton Cleaner and Condenser.

Patent for a cotton cleaning and condensing machine for cleaning cotton lint and forming it into bats of standard size. Also equipped with a fire-safety mechanism that immediately turns off the machine.
Date: October 1, 1907
Creator: Reagan, Edgar
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper for thinning young cotton plants that is cheaper to make and more efficient than previous models.
Date: March 19, 1907
Creator: Sterling, Rufus Taylor
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
TELEMASP Bulletin, Volume 5, Number 2, May 1998 (open access)

TELEMASP Bulletin, Volume 5, Number 2, May 1998

Monthly bulletin issued to address topics related to law enforcement. This issue discusses "Merging Community-Oriented and Crime-Specific Policing Part Three of Seven" including topics such as targeted enforcement and different programs' descriptions and their effects.
Date: May 1998
Creator: Carter, David
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History