Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper that attaches to a cultivator and cuts the rows of cotton evenly.
Date: October 17, 1911
Creator: Ashlimann, Adolf E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator (open access)

Acetylene-Gas Generator

Patent for an Acetylene gas generator that allows waste to be emptied from the machine without losing any gas.
Date: June 13, 1911
Creator: Finley, Jesse T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Show-Case. (open access)

Show-Case.

Patent for a show-case for cigars that can be opened at various points by levers.
Date: November 14, 1911
Creator: Kainer, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Paper-Hanging Machine. (open access)

Paper-Hanging Machine.

Patent for improvements in paper-hanging machines to "provide a device of this class of simple and improved construction adapted to hold a roll of wall paper, to guide the paper over a trimming device and under a paste applying device, and said machine being also provided with a cutting device for severing the strip of paper after the same has been applied to the wall" (lines 10-18); it includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 7, 1911
Creator: Phillips, Jay V.
System: The Portal to Texas History