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Oral History Interview with Ernest Griffith, November 4, 1982

Description: Interview with Ernest Griffith, owner and operator of Griffith's Independent Ginner. The interview includes Griffith's personal experiences about education in Texola, Oklahoma, part-time employment as cotton picker, and being involved in building cotton gins and operating drug stores. Griffith also talks about his family background, the operation of Griffith and Stith cotton gin, buying cotton and retaining cotton seed, variations in cotton prices, sale of coal to farmers, buying grain for Kimb… more
Date: November 4, 1982
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Griffith, Ernest
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[Letter from I. H. Kempner to Daniel W. Kempner and Harris L. Kempner, January 4, 1954]

Description: Letter from Issac H. Kempner to Daniel W. Kempner and Harris L. Kempner discussing a letter he sent to Tom James with a business inquiry for the Motor Company and discussing the inspection of cotton gins in Mexico by their Sugar Land ginner Phillips.
Date: January 4, 1954
Creator: Kempner, Isaac H. (Isaac Herbert), 1873-1967
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Huller-Gin

Description: Patent for a huller gin that sends the cotton hulls out of the gin machine automatically and runs continuously.
Date: June 4, 1912
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
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[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Joseph R. Bertig, January 4, 1949]

Description: Letter from D. W. Kempner to Joseph R. Bertig discussing the sale of land, mentioning it's a good deal. He also addresses the need for new machinery for gins and doubts regarding profitability of ginning process, issues related to re-ginned cotton and it's impact on sales.
Date: January 4, 1949
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: This is a patent for "new and useful improvements in a combined cultivator and chopper" (lines 5-7). The new improvements include a combination chopper and cultivator that will maneuver on both sides of a row of cotton crop.
Date: September 4, 1897
Creator: Latta, William D.
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Feed Governor for Cotton Gins.

Description: Patent for a new and improved feed-governor for cotton gins. This design "feed[s] to the saws a layer of cotton that is thinner in the center, and the suction of the inner saws will draw in from the thicker edges formed by [this] governor such a portion of cotton as shall make the whole supply to the gin-saws even and regular, thereby preventing all the choking [of existing gins]" (lines 90-96).
Date: December 4, 1883
Creator: Schaefer, Henry P.
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Mattress-Making Machine.

Description: Patent for a mattress making machine for use in cotton gins that fills the mattress tick with a even amount of stuffing without wadding and can be used with any type of cloth mattress tick.
Date: June 4, 1907
Creator: White, Charles W.
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Cotton Tie-Press.

Description: Patent for a cotton tie press, which allows the easy removal of the temporary ties on the cotton bales.
Date: April 4, 1911
Creator: Howlett, Payton Leon
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Cotton-Gin Breast.

Description: Patent for a cotton gin breast that applies pressure to the cotton roll and prevents it from bulging.
Date: July 4, 1911
Creator: Barnes, Peter Benjamin
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Cotton-Loader.

Description: Patent for “improvements in apparatus for loading cotton bales (either gin or compress) onto box cars, especially with a view of utilizing the head room or space usually left unoccupied between the roof of the car and the bales stacked on the floor in the prevailing practice of loading cars” (lines 36-42) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 4, 1915
Creator: Newell, Allen
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Combined Cotton Separator and Distributer.

Description: Patent for a simple and efficient cotton separator and distributor that elevates and moves cotton from a wagon into a gin. It has supply and suction pipes, an air-tight cotton distributing box with an opening on one side and a gravity drop door on the other, a mechanism that moves the box in and out of the line of suction of the pipes, and a group of circular distributing boxes that rotate between the pipes.
Date: September 4, 1894
Creator: Paine, Herbert A.
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Cleaner for Cotton-Gin Saws

Description: Patent for "a new and improved cleaner for removing gummy and other matter from the saws of cotton-gins while the latter are running, thus permitting the saws to work very effectively in removing the lint from the seed" (lines 8-13).
Date: June 4, 1889
Creator: Godwin, John C.
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[Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr. to D. W. Kempner, September 4, 1954]

Description: Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr. to D. W. Kempner acknowledging Kempner's recent cable and discusses various business updates. They enclose a letter from Elsa, a memo of operations for August 1954, and a memo to Harris. Updates include information on cotton stock, purchases, loans, and Government Loan cotton. He notes ginning progress in Matamoros and the return of funds.
Date: September 4, 1954
Creator: Blackshear, A. H., Jr.
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