Automatic Car-Coupling. (open access)

Automatic Car-Coupling.

Patent for improvements in car-couplers "wherein the link is automatically engaged with the draw-head of a second car and the link can be quickly disengaged when it needed uncoupling." (Lines 10-11) Illustration is included.
Date: June 18, 1901
Creator: Ponton, Henry H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Gathering Cotton Squares (open access)

Machine for Gathering Cotton Squares

Patent for a machine for gathering cotton squares. This invention is designed to gather boll weevil invested cotton and roll the cotton between rollers to kill eggs. Illustration included.
Date: June 2, 1908
Creator: Bunting, Karl Saxton
System: The Portal to Texas History