Cotton-Picking Shade. (open access)

Cotton-Picking Shade.

Patent for a cotton-picking shade that will furnish a portable shade or shield for the use of cotton-pickers to protect them from the direct rays of the sun while at work.
Date: July 22, 1879
Creator: Benthall, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying Insects. (open access)

Improvement in Apparatus for Destroying Insects.

Patent for an "improvement in devices for destroying ants and burrowing animals of all kinds." (lines 13-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 18, 1879
Creator: Melcher, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fumigating Apparatus for Exterminating Insects. (open access)

Fumigating Apparatus for Exterminating Insects.

Patent for ant extermination device. Injects gas into the entrance of (primarily) ant or insect nests.
Date: March 11, 1879
Creator: Mueller, Onno
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement In Suspender-Buttons (open access)

Improvement In Suspender-Buttons

Patent for an improved suspender button with a description and illustrations attached.
Date: August 19, 1879
Creator: Racer, Martin J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Sprinklers (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Sprinklers

Patent for Improvements to cotton-sprinklers that provides "effective distribution of poisonous liquids upon cotton-plants, for the purpose of destroying the cotton-worm or other destructive insects." (lines 15-18) Includes instructions and illustration.
Date: November 11, 1879
Creator: Schier, John
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Picking Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Picking Machines.

Patent for an improvement in cotton-picking machines including instructions and illustrations.
Date: November 18, 1879
Creator: Trenks, Frederick F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Exterminators. (open access)

Improvement in Insect-Exterminators.

Patent for an improved insect exterminator design with modifications especially suitable for cotton fields, includes illustrations.
Date: June 10, 1879
Creator: Walker, John Z.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvment in Spray-Nozzles (open access)

Improvment in Spray-Nozzles

Patent for an improvement on spray nozzles for use with force pumps. These force pumps are used for spraying insecticide on cotton to protect the crop from cotton-worms and other insects.
Date: September 2, 1879
Creator: Yeager, George
System: The Portal to Texas History