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Cotton Chopper and Cultivator. (open access)

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

Patent for improvements in cotton choppers and cultivators by using “the shearing action between a rotary hoe and a cutter-bar traveling along beside the row” (lines 20-22) to cut off the cotton. Illustration is included.
Date: June 2, 1891
Creator: Ferriott, Charles L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Ginning Machinery. (open access)

Cotton-Ginning Machinery.

Patent for cotton ginning machinery, which separates cotton faster and more cleanly and continuously feeds cotton into the saws.
Date: June 14, 1910
Creator: Wilson, Ralph E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator. (open access)

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cotton choppers and cultivators, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 7, 1898
Creator: Holland, Joseph J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for an improved type of cotton chopper that thins rows of plants on both flat and rough terrain. Includes illustrations and instructions.
Date: June 10, 1913
Creator: Hellums, Oscar S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Condenser. (open access)

Cotton Cleaner and Condenser.

Patent for a new and improved cotton cleaner and condenser. This design "is to produce a cheap and simple machine of this class which is adapted for use in connection with a cotton-gin and which will rapidly separate the dirt from the cotton and will also condense the cotton, so that it may be easily handled and baled" (lines 10-16). It consists in "[t]he combination of the case or frame having an inlet and its lower end and a hinged downward-curved hood at its upper end with the endless carrier mounted in the said case or frame with its higher end within the curved hood" (lines 47-52).
Date: June 7, 1892
Creator: Wherry, William B. & Smith, William F.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date: June 29, 1909
Creator: Pace, William S. & Pace, James J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper. (open access)

Cotton Chopper.

Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists "[i]n a cotton-chopper, the combination, with a bent axle, wheels on the same, a swiveled bearing on the said axle, a chopping-hoe having its standard fitted in said bearing, and a triangular frame secured to the axle, of a forked operating-lever pivoted to the triangular frame, a collar on the standard of the hoe, and links connecting the collar to the ends of the arms of the said operating-lever" (lines 15-23).
Date: June 14, 1887
Creator: Sacks, Heinrich Wilhelm
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a new cotton chopper with improvements that have the ability to raise or lower the height of the blades and keep them nearly horizontal to the ground, including illustrations.
Date: June 12, 1900
Creator: Smith, Gilbert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper that operates by loosening the earth around the cotton plants and chopping them by row. Illustrations included.
Date: June 22, 1909
Creator: Gesche, Eugene C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, which attaches to a cultivator.
Date: June 14, 1910
Creator: Vickers, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn and Cotton Planter (open access)

Corn and Cotton Planter

Patent for a corn and cotton planter that can plant two rows at a time.
Date: June 11, 1912
Creator: Hooper, Martin T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for a cotton chopper and cultivator which has adjustable cutters.
Date: June 18, 1912
Creator: Cain, James N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Gin Feeder (open access)

Cotton Cleaner and Gin Feeder

Patent for cotton cleaner and gin feeder. Illustration included.
Date: June 28, 1904
Creator: Gooch, James Walter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a new cotton chopper allowing for continuous operation while raising or lowering the device and without requiring additional strain from draft animals during operation, including illustrations.
Date: June 16, 1914
Creator: Hickson, Aaron L.
System: The Portal to Texas History