Improvements in Revolving Cotton Lint Rooms. (open access)

Improvements in Revolving Cotton Lint Rooms.

Patent for improvement in cotton-lint rooms. These rooms are used with gins that seperate the seeds from the cotton.
Date: May 13, 1873
Creator: Crenshaw, William T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Transplanters (open access)

Improvement in Transplanters

Patent for an improvement in transplanters, intended for use in transplanting cotton or other plants.
Date: May 28, 1872
Creator: Cook, Henry C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Nail-Extractors. (open access)

Improvement in Nail-Extractors.

Patent for an improved instrument for extracting nails which "will increase its effectiveness in equal ratio with the resistance offered by the object under operation" (lines 13-16) including instruction and illustrations.
Date: May 14, 1872
Creator: Franklin, Edward A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Bale Ties

Patent for an improvement in cotton-bale ties which consists of the construction of the loop-plate.
Date: May 14, 1872
Creator: Franklin, Edward A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Compounds for Destroying Insects on Plants. (open access)

Improvement in Compounds for Destroying Insects on Plants.

Patent for a “combination of flour and cotton-seed meal with paris green, for the destruction of cotton-worms or caterpillars, and other pestiferous insects” (lines 47-50).
Date: May 26, 1874
Creator: Royall, William B.
System: The Portal to Texas History