Pneumatic Cotton-Picker. (open access)

Pneumatic Cotton-Picker.

Patent for an improved pneumatic cotton-picker that is meant "to produce a simple machine having a cotton receiving box or vacuum box and arranged to use both a blast and suction pipe, these pipes being oppositely arranged and the suction pipe being made to deliver into the cotton box" (lines 10-17). The cotton is sucked from the plants and delivers it into a cotton box. A guide lines the machine up with the row of cotton.
Date: May 23, 1893
Creator: Mauermann, Gustav A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fan and Motoro Therefor. (open access)

Fan and Motoro Therefor.

Patent for a motor-propelled fan that can attach to any support, especially beds steads and other furniture. The motor is simple and can be easily manipulated.
Date: May 9, 1893
Creator: Sneckner, George A. & Roth, Charles E.
System: The Portal to Texas History