Patent for a new and useful baling press, including instructions and illustrations.

Patent for a cotton picker. This invention relates to pneumatic cotton-pickers using a suction box for detaching bolls of cotton from pods. Illustration included.

Patent for an apparatus for elevating and cleaning seed cotton

Patent for a cotton-topper, which attaches to a cultivator.

Patent for a new coupling mechanism that will automatically couple railway cars together without human assistance.

Patent for punches and shears combined to cut metal longitudinally.

Patent for improvements to andiron or "fire-dogs".

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Article 7880-74a or Articles 3937 and 3939 controls the amount of compensation the Williamson County Tax Assessor-Collector is to receive for assessing and collecting taxes for Brushy Creek Water Control and Improvement District Number 1 of Williamson and Milam Counties on property located in such district in Williamson County.

Patent for improvements in apparatus for burning lime. To provide reliable and efficient means to extract all the heat units from fuel to be used by providing an increase draft and long blaze.

Patent for a new and improved barrel cart. This design "is to provide an improved barrel rack or truck which can be conveniently and easily loaded and transported from place to place; to provide means for assisting in loading the barrel or receptacle on the truck and for retaining the same on the truck against danger of accidental displacement while the truck and its contents are being moved or transported, and to provide an improved truck which shall be very simple, strong, and durable in construction, thoroughly effective in operation, and cheap and inexpensive of manufacture" (lines 14-26).

Patent for a wire stretcher. Illustration included.

Patent for a device that cuts wood into different sized wedges. This is a device used in the construction industry.

Patent for an insect exterminator to deal with cotton weevils. Illustration included.

Patent for a machine to collect insects such as cotton-bool weevils and other pests from crops.

Patent for a stalk cutter attachment for cultivators.

Patent for a new and improved rain-proof cap for chimneys. This design "is to provide a . . . rain-proof or chimney tube for receiving that part of a stove-pipe that projects above the roof, which rain-proof is so constructed that pipes can be held in the same at different inclinations. The invention consists in a rain-proof formed of a conical tube held on the roof, in the upper end of which conical tube the upper end of the stove-pipe is held. A hood is held on the upper end of the stove-pipe" (lines 8-18).

Patent for an invention to equalize the distribution of cotton into cotton boxes. The invention uses air-draft elevators in-order to relieve jams and chocked conditions in the elevator-shaft. Illustration included.

Patent for "a farm-gate that may be opened and closed from either side of the gate by a person mounted on horseback, or by a person in a vehicle, without its being necessary in either instance for the person to dismount or alight" (lines 18-22).

Patent for a new design for a gate that "will prevent the post to which it is hung from being drawn out of line by its weight" (lines 12-14) and will stay open unaided and "automatically lock itself when closed" (line 18) including instructions and illustrations.