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Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "has for its objects to provide a coupling-pin which can be reversed when one end becomes worn, to provide a reversible pin of novel construction, which is adapted to automatically engage the ordinary coupling-link, and to provide a coupling-pin of novel construction, with a device for holding it elevated when it is not desired to engage a coupling-link" (lines 10-18).
Date:
May 15, 1883
Creator:
Fowler, Joseph C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Planter.
Patent for a new and improved seed planter. This design "consist[s] of the hopper, the tapering feed-tube, the distributing-chamber provided with inwardly-projecting radial pins, the discharge-spout, and the shaft provided at its upper end with stirrer pins, at its middle part with a tapering feed-screw, and at its lower part with distributing pins" (lines 9-15).
Date:
July 15, 1884
Creator:
Hopper, Thomas Pinkney
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Planter
Patent for "a device which shall be simple in construction and by meansof which the planting of the seed may be performed in an even and regular manner" (lines 9-13).
Date:
October 15, 1889
Creator:
Cook, John R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Seed Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the combination, with the side bars of the main frame, the plow-standard connecting the front ends thereof, and the covering board connecting the rear ends of the side bars, of the handles secured to the side bars near the front end of the machine, the rectangularly-bent brace-bar secured to the side bars and to the handles, and the centrally-bent brace-bar secured to the side bars and the brace-bar" (lines 86-95).
Date:
October 15, 1889
Creator:
Secrest, Louis Evin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cultivating Machine
Patent to "provide an implement which, in passing once over the row of cotton, will chop, scrape, and cultivate said row" (lines 10-13).
Date:
October 15, 1889
Creator:
Runyon, Edwin Elijah
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the chopper-handle, of the notched-roller, the mortised cross-beam, having the pivot across its mortise or hole, and the spring, attached to an upright, and the handle, whereby the chopper may be operated" (lines 73-78).
Date:
May 15, 1883
Creator:
Pettitt, Francis Alexander.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator
Patent for improvements in the construction and operation of cotton choppers and cultivators.
Date:
October 15, 1889
Creator:
Hutto, George Washington
System:
The Portal to Texas History