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Copy Holder.

Description: Patent for a new and improved copy-holder. This design "is [for] an improved copy-holder intended especially for holding deeds when being transcribed to the records, and seeks to provide a simple, inexpensive construction by which the deed may be held and to and from which the deed or other paper may be adjusted without difficulty, such construction serving also to mark or indicate the particular line of the paper being copied" (lines 7-15).
Date: August 2, 1887
Creator: Adair, Irvine James

Corn and Cotton Planter.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive and simply constructed corn and cotton planter that has an "improved mechanism for transmitting motion from the drive-wheel to the seed-disk; to so construct said mechanism as to operate only when the planter is being advanced and to remain inoperative when being drawn backward; to provide for a change of speed for the seed-disk so as to plant close together or far apart as may be desired; and to provide a new and improved hood or protector for the gear connection betw… more
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Schofield, James Drommond

Corn Husker and Sheller

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements to corn husker and sheller machines
Date: July 23, 1889
Creator: Whiting, Louis Rossell

Corn or Cotton Planter

Description: Patent for improvements on corn or cotton planters, especially referring to patent no. 692,646. These improvements are meant to "Simplify the means of adjusting the position of the plows and seed-dropper, to improve the frame construction, and in general to simplify and improve the whole machine" (lines 16-19) Includes instructions and illustrations
Date: September 4, 1903
Creator: Simmons, Gideon B.

Cotton and Corn Planter.

Description: Patent for a cotton and corn planter that does not put as much pressure on the tongue of the machine as previous models and that allows the plow attachment to be lifted higher off the ground to avoid obstacles.
Date: June 4, 1907
Creator: Goodnight, Frank H.

COTTON AND CORN PLANTER.

Description: Patent for a machine that assist with cotton and corn farmers with the planting of corn and cotton seed which contains instructions and illustrations on "construction and arrangement of parts" (line 18).
Date: April 20, 1880
Creator: Faucher, George E.

Cotton and Corn Planter

Description: Patent for "a durable and illexpensive planter which will serve to plant both corn and cotton in a perfect manner, and thus combine the two machines in one" (lines 11-14).
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: Letot, Clement

Cotton-Boll Separator.

Description: Patent for "cotton boll threshing machines." "Obejct of the inventions is provide means for crushing, agitating, and opening the dry cotton bolls and removing the fiber of seed cotton,,, without breaking the fiber and lowering the grade of the staple."
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Patterson, Warren A.

Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for a hoe-supported cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date: April 11, 1911
Creator: Carter, James F.

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper, which attaches to a cultivator.
Date: April 12, 1910
Creator: Caldwell, Mack

Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustrations included.
Date: April 21, 1908
Creator: Barnett, James Samuel

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper, which cut the cotton into hills of equal distance apart.
Date: December 7, 1909
Creator: Alexander, Winston B.

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive cotton chopper that is "adapted for simultaneously forming rows and cross-chopping the same, thus bringing plants, such as cotton, &c., to a stand, all in one operation, and thereby avoiding the necessity, as occurs in some cases of plowing or cultivating two ways in a field for the purpose of forming rows and then the stands or for any hand hoeing, as is also commonly done" (lines 12-19).
Date: September 12, 1893
Creator: Schofield, James Drommond

Cotton Chopper.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design "consist[s] of the frame, raised axle, and arch, having at one end the bearing, the transverse shaft carrying the bevel-gear, and journaled in said bearing, and the vertical arm, the said shaft also carrying a sprocket-wheel, which is connected to a similar wheel upon the axle by means of the endless chain, the cutter-shaft, journaled at opposite ends in the arms . . . and the removable cutter" (lines 68-77).
Date: November 4, 1884
Creator: Daniel, William L. & Daniel, Robbert A.

Cotton Chopper.

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in cotton choppers. A stronger, more durable, efficient, ease of operation, chopper.
Date: July 18, 1916
Creator: Penn, J.R.

Cotton Chopper.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a pair of wheels and a main frame mounted loosely thereon, of a shaft journaled therein carrying a pinion and crank-wheel, a hoe adapted to be reciprocated by the crank-wheel, and an operating-lever connected with the shaft and hoe-handle, whereby the shaft is moved laterally and the hoe elevated simultaneously therewith" (lines 41-48).
Date: October 20, 1885
Creator: McGregor, Montague M.

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator

Description: Patent for a simplified and "improved cotton-chopping mechanism which may be readily applied to a straddle-row cultivator of ordinary construction, whereby the cotton may be plowed and chopped at one operation" (lines 10-14). It also allows for the chopping mechanism to be adjusted to regulate the chopping operation and provides better support of the mechanism while operating.
Date: May 9, 1899
Creator: Ledbetter,William H.

Cotton-Chopper Machine.

Description: Patent for for the creation of a mechanism for the cotton chopper machine. The " provision of a cotton chopper machines comprising a wheel supported frame on which is arranged a particular form of revolving and reciprocating hoe mechanism." (lines 12-16)
Date: November 25, 1913
Creator: Penn, Joseph R.

Cotton-Cleaner.

Description: Patent for a cotton cleaner with beater arms attached to the shaft of the machine.
Date: May 2, 1911
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.

Cotton-Cleaner

Description: Patent for a machine to efficiently remove any "dirt, trash and motes from the cotton fiber" (lines 12-13).
Date: April 18, 1916
Creator: Garner, James C. & Garner, James C.

Cotton-Cleaner.

Description: Patent for an improved cotton cleaner including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 31, 1917
Creator: Line, George C.

Cotton Cleaner

Description: Patent for cotton cleaners which serve as accessories in cotton ginning operations and in the present instance are used with a pneumatic cotton distributing elevator or conveying means cooperating with gin feeders.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Murray, S.D.

Cotton-Cleaner.

Description: Patent for machine that cleans seed cotton before it is ginned by removing dirt, twigs, and other foreign matter.
Date: July 15, 1913
Creator: Patterson, Warren A.

Cotton-Cleaner

Description: Patent for a cotton-cleaner with beveled beaters attached to a central shaft. The shape of the beaters and rotation push the cotton outwards and downwards, thus preventing the cotton from clogging or collecting around the central shaft. Patent includes illustrations.
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Stacy, Grover C.
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