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Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design has an axle "provided with holes, so that the choppers or cultivators may be adjusted thereon to bring them nearer together or place them farther apart, as may be desired, to change the implement from a chopper to a marker or cultivator" (lines 30-35).
Date:
April 26, 1881
Creator:
Lindsey, James E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination of an axle, a frame, a shaft journaled longitudinally in the frame, radial arms mounted on the said shaft, gear connecting the said shaft with the axle, rectangular blades secured upon the ends of the said arms, the said blades being set diagonally, making their side edges parallel with the spiral path of the arms . . . and one blade being narrower than the others . . . whereby each blade will exactly coincide with the spiral path of its motion and stands will be left uncut at equal intervals" (lines 24-36).
Date:
April 13, 1886
Creator:
Ferriott, Charlie L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter
Patent for "a novel planting mechanism for planting either corn or cotton-seed, at the pleasure of the operator, by a simple adjustment of parts, and thereby adapt the machine for sowing different kinds of seeds and save the farmer the expense of two different machines" (lines 19-25).
Date:
April 9, 1889
Creator:
Cathey, Thomas Jefferson
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "the combination, with the axle, of the U-frame having bearings at its ends for the axle and a rearwardly-disposed sleeve, a shaft mounted in the sleeve and projecting beyond the same at each of its ends and provided with choppers at its rear end and a gear at its front end, a master-gear splined upon the axle and having a grooved hub, and a pivoted yoke terminating in the hub and a lever for operating the same to throw the gear into contact with that upon the shaft" (lines 1-12).
Date:
April 1, 1890
Creator:
Stanford, Jeff Hillon
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for "a cheap and simple machine adapted to chop or hoe cotton and simultaneously plow or hill the same; furthermore, to adapt the chopper to form stands composed of any number of plants and at any distance apart, and, finally, to provide means for raising and lowering the plows out of and into operative position and throwing the chopping mechanism into and out of gear, which means are controlled in a convenient manner by the driver or operator" (lines 10-20).
Date:
April 19, 1892
Creator:
Balshaw, David
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 21, 1908
Creator:
Barnett, James Samuel
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a hoe-supported cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 11, 1911
Creator:
Carter, James F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopping Machine
Patent for a cotton "wheeled cultivator" (line 14-15) attachment which allows users to make adjustments to the cultivator blades, including illustrations.
Date:
April 13, 1920
Creator:
Sims, James G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
April 6, 1909
Creator:
Abrams, Frederic
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 5, 1910
Creator:
Thomas, Edward E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a new type of cotton chopper that has the ability to be adjusted in the vertical to make for faster cotton cutting. This is a simpler design making it cheaper to make and easier to repair.
Date:
April 23, 1914
Creator:
Fultz, Deck B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner
Patent for a machine to efficiently remove any "dirt, trash and motes from the cotton fiber" (lines 12-13).
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Garner, James C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Renovator.
Patent for cotton cleaner and renovator, which can also be used for other fibrous materials. The machine is meant to clean and renovate second grade fiber to a degree that it may be rated as first grade on the market. Patent contains illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 18, 1916
Creator:
Garner, James C. & Reynolds, Charles S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History