Portable Steam Engine (open access)

Portable Steam Engine

Patent for a Portable Seam Engine
Date: August 24, 1880
Creator: Kriebel, Hosea K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed-Cotton Cleaner (open access)

Seed-Cotton Cleaner

Patent for a seed-cotton cleaner that has an adapted cleaner attached to it. The cleaner allows the operator to choose whether or not to pass cotton through the cleaner on its way to a cotton gin.
Date: October 24, 1911
Creator: Flowers, Malon I.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopping, Planting, and Cultivating Machine (open access)

Cotton Chopping, Planting, and Cultivating Machine

Patent for "a machine of this class which shall be simple in construction, inexpensive, durable, and easily operated" (lines 11-14).
Date: September 24, 1889
Creator: Piland, David Winfield
System: The Portal to Texas History