Improvement in Cotton-Cultivator. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Cultivator.

Patent for improvements in cotton cultivators.
Date: August 13, 1867
Creator: Adams, Jesse
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press. (open access)

Hay Press.

Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists in "the combination, with the side walls, of the stop-blocks comprising the places secured in recesses in the same, and the offsets formed integrally with the said plates, the plunger having recesses in its sides which engage said offsets, the operating-lever, and the pitman connecting the latter to the plunger" (lines 93-100).
Date: September 13, 1887
Creator: Bryant, William Hodges
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for cotton choppers. This invention is adapted to be attached to a double shovel cultivator so that the chopper will rotate so as to protect plants. Illustrations included.
Date: November 13, 1906
Creator: Connell, Alexander Hardee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Gin Flues (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Gin Flues

Patent for a new and improved cotton ginning appartatus using a set a valves to throw lint-cotton into different rooms without stopping the gin (line 2), including illustration.
Date: August 13, 1872
Creator: Gaines, James W.
System: The Portal to Texas History