Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for improvements to Cotton-Choppers. The invention relates to the agricultural implements and more particularly to machines for thinning rows of cotton, whereby to prevent crowding of the plants and insuring a stocky growth which will under favorable condition produce a good crop.
Date: January 20, 1920
Creator: Ogden, James D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for an adjustable cotton chopper which allows for the chopper to be set to different heights (vertically).
Date: January 8, 1918
Creator: Seamon, Albert H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin Hopper. (open access)

Cotton Gin Hopper.

Patent for swinging adjustable breast for Cotton-Gin Hoppers designed to regulate the density of cotton. Accompanied by illustrations.
Date: January 20, 1883
Creator: Horne, Edward G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Ginning Apparatus. (open access)

Cotton-Ginning Apparatus.

Patent for an improvement to cotton gins, allowing them to be constructed from a series of continuous shafts instead of pulleys, belts, and bearings. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 6, 1891
Creator: Murray, Stephen Douglas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Loading and Weighing Device. (open access)

Cotton Loading and Weighing Device.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient cotton loading and weighing device for wagons. It can be easily put onto or removed from any wagon. This invention has a unique way of "clamping-loop or wire support by means of which the main inclined beam or support of the device is firmly and securely upheld and braced with relation to the tail-gate of a wagon with which said clamping frame or loop is adapted to engage" (lines 25-31).
Date: January 7, 1896
Creator: Paolucci, Henry Emanuel
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper Attachment for Cultivators. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper Attachment for Cultivators.

Patent for a device that will be attached to the frame of the cultivator to be used for chopping cotton, and weeds.
Date: January 13, 1914
Creator: Williams, Roy L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper-Tool-Lifting Mechanism. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper-Tool-Lifting Mechanism.

Patent for a "hand and footlifting mechanism capable of independent operation whereby either the hand or the foot operations may be performed, and the tools or hoes either lifted without disturbing their fixed adjustment or their elevation adjusted as desired," (lines 14-20) including illustrations.
Date: January 8, 1918
Creator: East, Arthur R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Feeder. (open access)

Cotton Cleaner and Feeder.

Patent for "a machine especially adapted for cleaning cotton and distributing the same to one or more gins; and it has for its object to so construct the machine that it will receive the cotton from the usual suction-pipe or equivalent supply, will clean the cotton, shred or separate the same and deliver it to a carrier, which in its turn will distribute the cotton to the hoppers of one or more gins, the distribution being evenly and expeditiously accomplished; and a further object of the invention is to provide for a steady feed of the cotton at the delivery end of the carrier, said device effectually preventing choking at that point." (Lines 7-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 14, 1896
Creator: Moore, Martin L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Strategy: Fiscal Years 2021 to 2025, Articles 1 to 3 (open access)

Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Strategy: Fiscal Years 2021 to 2025, Articles 1 to 3

Compilation of recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2021-2025, prepared for the Texas House of Representatives. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to articles 1 to 3.
Date: January 2023
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2021 to 2025, Article 3 - Higher Education, Higher Education Group Insurance to General Academic Institutions (open access)

Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2021 to 2025, Article 3 - Higher Education, Higher Education Group Insurance to General Academic Institutions

Compilation of recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2021-2025, prepared for the Texas House of Representatives. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to article 3.
Date: January 2023
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Turfgrass Research: 1979-80 (open access)

Texas Turfgrass Research: 1979-80

Consolidated progress report providing a summary of research conducted at the experiment station during the prior year related to grass varieties used as turf, including updates on research, studies on turfgrasses, cultivar characterizations, fungicides, and herbicides.
Date: January 1981
Creator: Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas School and Appraisal Districts' Property Value Study: Preliminary Report, 1994 (open access)

Texas School and Appraisal Districts' Property Value Study: Preliminary Report, 1994

Preliminary findings of a study conducted by the Texas Comptroller's Office to "determine the total taxable value of all property in each school district" (Government Code Section 403.302), to inform the distribution of state funding for public education.
Date: January 1995
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Statistical Supplement to the Texas College and University System Coordinating Board Annual Report: 1984 (open access)

Statistical Supplement to the Texas College and University System Coordinating Board Annual Report: 1984

Statistical report about various data collected on Texas state colleges and universities during fiscal year 198Y such as enrollment, faculty, credit hours, facilities, state appropriations, and student loans.
Date: January 1985
Creator: Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Statistical Supplement to the Texas College and University System Coordinating Board Annual Report: 1983 (open access)

Statistical Supplement to the Texas College and University System Coordinating Board Annual Report: 1983

Statistical report about various data collected on Texas state colleges and universities during fiscal year 198Y such as enrollment, faculty, credit hours, facilities, state appropriations, and student loans.
Date: January 1984
Creator: Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
TexOMBE News, Volume 2, Number 1, January-February 1974 (open access)

TexOMBE News, Volume 2, Number 1, January-February 1974

The newsletter of Texas Industrial Commission discussing Texas industrial businesses, updates, and regulations.
Date: January 1974
Creator: Texas Industrial Commission
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
TexOMBE News, Volume 3, Number 1, January-February 1975 (open access)

TexOMBE News, Volume 3, Number 1, January-February 1975

The newsletter of Texas Industrial Commission discussing Texas industrial businesses, updates, and regulations.
Date: January 1975
Creator: Texas Industrial Commission
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2021 to 2025, Articles 1-3 - Public Education (open access)

Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2021 to 2025, Articles 1-3 - Public Education

Compilation of recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2021-2025, prepared for the Texas House of Representatives. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to articles 1-3.
Date: January 2023
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Strategy: Fiscal Years 2021 to 2025, Articles 4 to 10 (open access)

Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Strategy: Fiscal Years 2021 to 2025, Articles 4 to 10

Compilation of recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2021-2025, prepared for the Texas House of Representatives. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to articles 4-10.
Date: January 2023
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2021 to 2025, Articles 6 to 10 (open access)

Texas House Legislative Budget Estimates by Program: Fiscal Years 2021 to 2025, Articles 6 to 10

Compilation of recommended funding levels for various programs across state government during fiscal years 2021-2025, prepared for the Texas House of Representatives. It includes information about historic expenditures with requested and recommended funding, as well as specific information related to articles 6 to 10.
Date: January 2023
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for improvements a cotton chopper that "consists of a two-wheeled carriage having a hoe situated to thin the cotton and is operated by bevel gear-wheels, a ratchet-wheel, and a spring" (lines 12-15).
Date: January 1, 1901
Creator: Levings, Enoc
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for cotton chopper. This invention is on a wheel mounted frame and is adjustable for cutting out sections at desired intervals. Illustration included.
Date: January 15, 1907
Creator: Walter, William Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. This invention is designed to mounted on a cultivator carriage. It also provides detachable devices by which the cotton chopping mechanism. Illustration included.
Date: January 1, 1907
Creator: Cowart, Stephen A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, which "may be operated from either wheel" (lines 12-13).
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Stepleton, James T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter. (open access)

Corn and Cotton Planter.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in corn an cotton planters. This design is to " provide the same with a sweep or plow which travels in front of the seeder or planter mechanism to open a furrow" (line 13 - 16).
Date: January 25, 1898
Creator: Wendeborn, Ernest Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History