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Engineer's Level-Rod.
Reissued patent for an improvement in engineer's level which introduces a novel manner of marking the scale upon the face of the rod.
Date:
April 5, 1881
Creator:
Lynch, Michael L.
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 Planter.
Patent for a new and improved cotton planter. This design is for "a cotton-planter, the vibrating agitator having radial flanges and lateral flanges upon its bow, and clamped to the under side of [a] rocking shaft by means of cuffs and [a] clamp-screw, in combination with [a] hopper having [a] removable adjustable bottom" (lines 62-67).
Date:
May 10, 1881
Creator:
Walton, Jacob Gipson
System:
The Portal to Texas History