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Cleaning Apparatus.

Description: Patent for a vacuum for cleaning cotton gins that attaches to the pneumatic elevators generally found in cotton gins.
Date: April 9, 1907
Creator: Sadler, Arthur E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Gin.

Description: Patent for improved cotton gins through the "construction and arrangement of the roll box and the ginning devices" (lines 11-12).
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Farmers Cotton]

Description: VB-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 24, 1981, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton.

Description: Patent for an improved cotton elevator, separator, and distributor that is meant to move cotton from a wagon or storage, remove dirt, and deliver it to a gin. The "improved apparatus comprises a pneumatic cotton-conveying tube by which the cotton is lifted or carried to the distributor, a separator for removing the cotton from the air current, and a distributor comprising a trunk for receiving the cotton from the separator extending over the two gin feeders, having openings delivering into the … more
Date: October 31, 1893
Creator: Bachman, Joseph A. & Clark, Frank S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Press

Description: Patent for improvements in the construction of steam cotton presses using a change in the frame and use of hydraulic-pressure pumps to operate the press. The pumps are driven by steam
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: Turnpaugh, James William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Condensers.

Description: Patent to improve the compressing-roller design in a cotton gin, to keep the mechanisms from clogging. This is an addition to a previous patent by the same inventor that improved methods of cleaning the cotton. It includes an explanation with references, and illustrations.
Date: December 10, 1878
Creator: Donovan, John T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Handling Lint-Cotton.

Description: Patent for an apparatus for handling lint-cotton that allows air to move freely without back pressure while putting the fiber into a bat. It has a "trunk into which a series of gins deliver, of a primary condenser having a high surface speed, so that it will rapidly remove the fiber and prevent the bat from building up of such thickness as to check the escape of air, and a second condenser having a slower surface speed and arranged to receive the lint from the first condenser and form it into a… more
Date: March 19, 1895
Creator: Campbell, Douglas M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Train engine]

Description: Santa Fe locomotive 4045 (4000 class) pulls into the Sanger depot. Cotton gin in the background and the hand laid brick platform in the foreground.
Date: 1940~
Creator: Fuqua, Idaleene Scheu
Partner: Sanger Public Library

[News Script: Haslet fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a fire near the W.H. Neely Cotton Gin in Haslet.
Date: September 15, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photograph of Cotton Crop at Daniel Bros. Grain Gin]

Description: Photograph of a large group of wooden wagons full of cotton crops sitting in a yard in front of a two-story barn. Two electrical poles with electrical lines running between them and the barn stand in the yard as well. A small column of smoke is visible at the far right, beyond the group of wagons. Handwritten notes on the back of the photo indicate the building is a cotton gin belonging to the Daniel Bros.
Date: unknown
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

[Photograph of W. O. Daniel and O. H. Mcentee Gin]

Description: Photograph of a long, two-story metal barn, with electrical poles outside the front of the barn. A smaller wood building with a window sits in front of the left side of the barn, beyond an automobile. The buildings are situated in the middle of a bleak, barren area of dirt-covered ground. There is a decorative border surrounding the photo.
Date: unknown
Partner: Murphy Historical Society Inc.

Cotton-Gin.

Description: Patent for improvements to Cotton-Gins' brush cylinders that includes "a longitudinal tubular member having a brush cylinder cooperating therewith and which serves as a conduit for the passage of the lint cotton from the gin and also as a connecting means for the legs of the gin frame and as an end outlet for the gin, and leaving the rear of the latter unobstructed and freely accessible" (lines 13-21), including illustrations and instructions.
Date: March 3, 1914
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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