Improvement in Cotton Scrapers, Choppers, and Dirters. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton Scrapers, Choppers, and Dirters.

Patent for "an improved machine for cultivating cotton" (lines 15-16)including illustrations. The machine is used to "bar off, scrape, chop, and dirt the cotton upon both sides of a row at one passage." (lines 17-19)
Date: December 2, 1879
Creator: De Force, Samuel A. & McConnell, William V.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Loading Apparatus (open access)

Loading Apparatus

Patent for a loading apparatus that uses flexing sections that open and closes. Illustration included.
Date: June 2, 1908
Creator: Lipscomb, William C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Circuit Maker and Breaker (open access)

Automatic Circuit Maker and Breaker

Patent for automatic circuit maker and breaker that automatically cuts off the circuit to electric lights. Also for automatically completing circuits to said lights at the proper time
Date: November 2, 1915
Creator: Scholl, Max
System: The Portal to Texas History