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Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper that connects to other machines, such as cultivators.
Date: April 22, 1913
Creator: Jones, Martin A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for improvements on cotton choppers, primarily consisting of "a pair of oscillating hoes swinging in opposed relation and supported in vertically adjustable bearings suspended from a main frame" (lines 11-14).
Date: December 14, 1915
Creator: Strong, Harold
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper. (open access)

Cotton Chopper.

Patent for new and useful improvements in cotton choppers. A stronger, more durable, efficient, ease of operation, chopper.
Date: July 18, 1916
Creator: Penn, Joseph R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for improvements to cotton-choppers inculding illustrations.
Date: April 13, 1915
Creator: Hamilton, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a machine to thin and cultivate cotton plants without covering them with debris. Designed to be used with most cultivators and to be inexpensive to construct.
Date: April 24, 1917
Creator: Gunn, Jc. Christon
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.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Loader. (open access)

Cotton-Loader.

Patent for “improvements in apparatus for loading cotton bales (either gin or compress) onto box cars, especially with a view of utilizing the head room or space usually left unoccupied between the roof of the car and the bales stacked on the floor in the prevailing practice of loading cars” (lines 36-42) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 4, 1915
Creator: Newell, Allen
System: The Portal to Texas History