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Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for an improved design for a cotton chopper. The patent includes two sets of blades with opposite rotation and the ability to be stopped by the control of the operator. The design also includes improvements on cultivation and chopping for a more efficient process. Included are instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 25, 1880
Creator:
Busch, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Planter Attachment.
Patent for improvements on cotton or other seed planters with a new design that allows for "simultaneously adjusting-i.e., raising and lowering-the plows in front and in rear of the seed-dropping drum " (lines 29-31) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 25, 1880
Creator:
Willcoxson, Coulmon W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vegetable Grater and Slicer.
Patent for an improvement on vegetable graters or slicers. The design allows for more efficient cutting of the vegetables and allows for gravity to feed the vegetables through the slicer and avoiding injury to the operator. Included are instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 25, 1880
Creator:
Weitzel, Jacob F.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Motor.
Patent for an improved and efficient "in motors adapted especially for domestic use, its object being to provide a cheap, compact, durable, and efficient automatic motive mechanism which may be utilized for drivers various household apparatus" including instructions and illustration.
Date:
May 25, 1880
Creator:
Miller, Noah J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horse-Power Machines.
Patent for new and improved cog-wheel designed to improve horse-powered machines that are used in "flouring mills, and agricultural, and other machines" (lines 16-17) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 25, 1880
Creator:
Hooker, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History