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Apparatus for Handling and Cleaning Seed-Cotton.
Patent for improvements in apparatus for handling and cleaning seed-cotton by “conveying cotton through a pneumatic tube and for automatically delivering therefrom to each of a series of gins an amount of cleaned cotton graduated at all times to the need of each gin. The flow of the main current in the tube is not interrupted by the several subtractions.” (Lines 17-23) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 2, 1891
Creator:
Elam, William E.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for improvements in car-couplings “with means for elevating the coupling-link without the necessity of the brakeman going between the cars, and also to provide means for holding the coupling-pin out of engagement with the link when the cars are uncoupled, said pin being automatically released when the cars come together, so that it will fall by gravity and engage with said link.” (Lines 17-25) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 2, 1891
Creator:
Hamilton, Weston G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Chemise
Patent for improvements in chemises which would relieve wearers “the annoyance of having the garment gather about the limbs while walking which often produces great embarrassment in public places.” (Lines 42-45) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 2, 1891
Creator:
Burt, Emma Ruby
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Sheller.
Patent for improvements in corn-shellers in which it would be easily-operated and consists of “a semi-cylindrical trough having serrations upon the sides and bottom thereof, so that upon pushing the ear back and forth in the trough the corn will be scraped off.” (Lines 22-25) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 2, 1891
Creator:
Townsley, Christopher C.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
Fanning-Machine.
Patent for improvements in fanning-machines by making the fanning-machine portable, so that it “can be placed upon a table or other support or attached to a bed, chair, lounge, or seat of any kind;” (lines 18-21) it also can keep away flies and insects from people. Illustration is included.
Date:
June 2, 1891
Creator:
Wallace, James T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Quilting-Frame.
Patent for improvements in quilting-frames in which it “can be used either with or without a sewing-machine. Several lines can be quilted without having to roll the quilt. The frame is suspended from above, preferably upon a wire or cord, and so arranged that it may be moved in any direction desired.” (Lines 17-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
June 2, 1891
Creator:
Stukes, John Marion
System:
The Portal to Texas History