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Cotton Cleaning and Extracting Machine.

Description: Patent for a new, efficient machine, with a double purpose: "to clean hand-picked cotton and better prepare it for the ginning operation" (lines 11-13) and to extract cotton "from unripe and closed bolls" (lines 14-15).
Date: March 7, 1916
Creator: Blackmon, Enoch J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Filler and Packer for Baling-Presses

Description: Patent for a combined filler and packer for association with a cotton press or baling apparatus and operating to receive lint cotton from a suitable source. The primary objective is to facilitate an automatic direct feed of lint cotton from the cotton separator into the baling apparatus.
Date: August 1, 1916
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Isaacson Cotton Gin Company, El Campo, Texas]

Description: Black and white photograph of a building known as the Isaacson Gin Company, where cotton is processed. The building is made of wood and has several different sections to it. The yard just outside the company is teeming with horse-drawn or animal-drawn wagons. Each wagon is filled with cotton; some of them are covered with a tarp. In the distance, several houses are visible, as are dirt roads that lead to and from the company yard.
Date: September 16, 1916
Creator: El Campo Studio Photo
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

Isaacson Gin Company

Description: Photograph of the Isaacson Gin Company, a cotton gin in El Campo, Texas, taken from a high angle and from a distance, capturing the entire structure and the surrounding homes that surround it. Several horse-drawn wagons are moving in a procession in an arc formation from the south-facing wall of the gin to the north-facing one. Groups of men can be seen directing them. Others are seen on the ground and on platforms near the cotton bales. The gin itself is a large two-story structure with gableā€¦ more
Date: September 16, 1916
Creator: El Campo Studio
Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

Huller-Gin.

Description: Patent for a Huller-Gin. This device has an improvement that reduces the cotton being wasted by getting clogged in the hulling chamber.
Date: August 1, 1916
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Gin

Description: Patent for improved cotton gin, in particular the mote plate and wind guard. The new design allows for the mote plate to easily be adjusted, and for cotton-laden air currents to be cleared regularly.
Date: June 6, 1916
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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