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Cotton-Sack Hanger.

Description: Patent for a hanger designed to easily attach and detach from a cotton sack without damaging the sack or the hands of a cotton picker. It is designed to be made of a single piece of material and may be used to hang the sack on a scale for weighing the contents.
Date: July 22, 1919
Creator: Hamrick, Walter
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[The News-Tribune Newspaper Clipping from July 30, 1976]

Description: Newspaper clipping from The News-Tribune with an article written by Mrs. H. W. Godbey; on the reverse side there is a sports article written by Jack Murphy. Godbey's article describes the history of Haslet, Texas and says the last cotton gin in town had been sold and how the state of the town had worsened since 1936 when it had "two grocery stores, one notion store, two or three cafes, two filling stations, two cotton gins, three churches, one drug store and a high school." Murphy's article t… more
Date: July 30, 1976
Creator: Murphy, Jack & Godbey, Mrs. H. W.
Partner: Haslet Public Library

[Letter from T. L. James to D. W. Kempner, July 18, 1951]

Description: Letter from Thos. L. James to D. W. Kempner discussing gin operators for a cotton gin in Plantersville, Texas. James explains that the previous operator, Mr. Phillips, stopped working recently, and that a previously recommended operator would not be available to work. He also offers to locate a new operator for Kempner.
Date: July 18, 1951
Creator: James, Thomas Leroy
Partner: Rosenberg Library

Machine for Sharpening and Gumming Saws.

Description: Patent for a machine that sharpens and gums saws for cotton-gins. It does so quickly and does not fatigue the operator. It automatically feeds "the saws so as to bring the teeth successively into position to be operated upon, and which will cut the teeth uniformly, thereby preserving the circular outline of the saws and preserving the teeth of a uniform length and appearance" (lines 15-20).
Date: July 14, 1896
Creator: Hulme, William A. & Hulme, Thomas B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Method of Forming Round Bales.

Description: Patent for a method making round cotton bales at cotton gins more efficiently by providing a way of winding the bat of cotton into a ball in between press runs.
Date: July 30, 1907
Creator: Reagan, Edgar
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Harvester.

Description: Patent for a cotton harvesting machine used for gathering the cotton from the plant, stripping the bolls or pods, and cleaning the cotton in one continuous operation during the traction of the harvester over a cotton field. This cotton harvester has a rotary picking member disposed forwardly and grabbing arms disposed rearwardly of the rotary picking arms. These rotary picking members are used for receiving the cotton gathered by the said picking arms and depositing it between two vertically … more
Date: July 30, 1918
Creator: Berry, Louis J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Distributer.

Description: Patent for "a new and improved cotton-distributer to provide a means for equalizing the distribution of cotton to a series of connected receptacles and for retaining the cotton in the receptacles until it is desirable to deliver it to the hoppers or feed devices for cotton-gins." (lines 5-10) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 10, 1900
Creator: Parker, Joseph Andrew
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Packer.

Description: Patent for an improved cotton packer, which automatically restarts when it finishes a bale.
Date: July 14, 1908
Creator: Cass, Eral B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Gin.

Description: Patent for an improved method of locating the air blast apparatus for cleaning lint from the saw teeth of saw-type cotton gins, so that the cotton lint does not accumulate on the cleaning apparatus and render it inoperative, including illustrations.
Date: July 24, 1917
Creator: Hopper, James F.; Stephens, George B. & Young, Harry F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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