Earth Auger. (open access)

Earth Auger.

Patent for a new and improved auger. This design "relates to a new and improved earth-auger made funnel shaped, with side cutting-edges, and adapted to be inverted for emptying the auger; and the invention consists of the construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 7-12).
Date: May 26, 1885
Creator: Porter, Thomas A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Deep Well Pump. (open access)

Deep Well Pump.

Patent for a new and improved well pump. This design consists in "the timber bed arranged on the bottom of the well, in combination with two superposed metallic cylinders connected by a stock, said stock being provided at the bottom with inwardly-turned flanges made fast to said bed" (lines 55-60).
Date: March 22, 1887
Creator: Clark, Alexander Evans
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator Attachment (open access)

Cultivator Attachment

Patent for a cultivator attachment that keeps the cultivator beams properly separated.
Date: July 23, 1912
Creator: Hoetzel, Ernest J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Calf and Cow Weaner. (open access)

Calf and Cow Weaner.

Patent for calf and cow weaner.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Bauer, John T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent provides for an improved "guiding of the cultivator through the movement of the seat" (lines 17-18). The plow is guided by the driver using the seat and his foot to guide the cultivator and plow.
Date: October 1, 1918
Creator: Wilson, William J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Compress (open access)

Cotton-Compress

Patent for a cotton compress. Illustrations included.
Date: September 17, 1912
Creator: Mode, Marshall M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Stalk Puller. (open access)

Cotton Stalk Puller.

Patent for a new and improved cotton stalk puller. This design utilizes "[a] pulling-wheel having radial jaws that are opened and closed by cam devices" when "[i]t is driven astride the [cotton] row, and will be found to operate rapidly and with absolute certainty. It is simple, durable, and may be constructed at a very small expense" (lines 79-84).
Date: March 15, 1881
Creator: Wilson, John C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Planter. (open access)

Cotton Planter.

Patent for a new and improved cotton planter. This design is for "a cotton-planter, the vibrating agitator having radial flanges and lateral flanges upon its bow, and clamped to the under side of [a] rocking shaft by means of cuffs and [a] clamp-screw, in combination with [a] hopper having [a] removable adjustable bottom" (lines 62-67).
Date: May 10, 1881
Creator: Walton, Jacob Gipson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin (open access)

Cotton-Gin

Patent for improvements that may be added to a cotton gin to facilitate the removal of lint from the saw through the use of air suction, increasing ginning efficiency.
Date: January 5, 1915
Creator: Wooldridge, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Scoop. (open access)

Cotton-Scoop.

Patent for a simple and inexpensive cotton scoop and is "adapted to have its tines yield to facilitate its insertion in a mass of cotton" (lines 13-14).
Date: April 18, 1893
Creator: Brown, William C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Harrows (open access)

Attachment for Harrows

Patent for attachment of harrows that facilitate the use of harrows in pilling cotton stalks. This device allows the harrows to be in continuous motion creating efficiency in cotton pilling.
Date: March 11, 1913
Creator: Taylor, David T. & Barker, Felix
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for Cotton Chopper. To help in the aid of chopping cotton instead of using a hoe.
Date: March 1, 1921
Creator: Wilson, William J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner (open access)

Cotton-Cleaner

Patent for an apparatus that is designed to clean cotton before it is placed in a cotton gin. Illustrations included.
Date: February 15, 1910
Creator: Felton, Thomas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a new and improved stalk chopper. This design "consists in the combination of a suitable carrying-frame, which is to be attached to the plow, a shaft on which the chopping-wheel is placed, and which is operated by the revolving axle, and the chopping-wheel having adjustable cutting blades" (lines 13-18).
Date: July 28, 1885
Creator: Miller, Julian Tolbert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter. (open access)

Corn and Cotton Planter.

Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the main frame . . . provided with the hopper, covers, and transporting-wheel, of the vibrating-lever pivoted at its lower end to the side of the frame, and pivoted at its middle to the lateral arm, secured to the feed-slide and operated by means of the pitman, which is connected at its lower end to the crank-axle, the upper end thereof being pivoted to the upper end of the lever" (lines 17-26).
Date: September 8, 1885
Creator: Williams, George W. & Hook, Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, which can be attached to a planter.
Date: October 18, 1910
Creator: Felton, Thomas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History