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[News Script: Cotton]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 1957's first bale of cotton grown in North Texas being processed at the Dietz cotton gin at Crandall.
Date: August 7, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Cotton]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about 1957's first bale of cotton grown in North Texas being processed at the Dietz cotton gin at Crandall.
Date: August 7, 1957
Duration: 1 minute 26 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Process of Ginning Cotton.

Description: Patent for a process of ginning cotton that is "based upon the principle of a gradual or successive ginning of the seed, somewhat analogous to the gradual reduction process of grinding wheat or other grain" (lines 28-61). This process improves ginning by over thirty-three percent.
Date: November 7, 1893
Creator: Bachman, Joseph A.
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Means for Making Bats for Mattresses.

Description: Patent for a simple means for making bats for mattresses, and is an improvement on a previous patent (No. 399,041). "I gin into a room or place having the width or the length of the average width or length of a mattress, but extending the necessary length-say twenty or twenty-five feet, more or less to allow the cotton or material used to settle uniformly across it, the top at the extreme end preferably covered with wire-gauze to assist the draft from the gin. The floor and sides of this box or… more
Date: April 7, 1896
Creator: Haynes, Daniel
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Cotton Huller, Cleaner, and Gin-Feeder

Description: Patent for an "improved cotton huller, cleaner, and gin-feeder adapted for separating the hulls and foreign substances from the cotton, ... and feeding the seed-cotton to a gin" (line 8-12) illustrations included.
Date: July 7, 1903
Creator: Larson, Eric B.
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Cotton-Gin.

Description: Patent for a cotton-gin that "has for its object to provide means for operating upon or permitting lint cotton, wool and other fibrous material to be ginned from a roll by means of saws as is commonly done in working seed cotton without injury to the mechanism" (lines 12-17).
Date: August 7, 1894
Creator: Haynes, Daniel
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[Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to I. H. Kempner, August 7, 1951]

Description: Letter from Daniel W. Kempner to I. H. Kempner catching up on business matters such as a letter from the National City Bank, discussions with Leslie Coleman and Al Long, cotton ginning, and a few news clippings that he found interesting. He mentions the funeral of Fanny Hamburger and Mrs. Freund.
Date: August 7, 1951
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
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Seed-Cotton Feeder.

Description: Patent for a gin feeder that carries "the cotton forward, and is provided with some one or more of many additional devices to regulate the amount delivered by the conveyer, independently of the amount that may be in the feeder, provided only that the supply be not to scanty" (lines 13-18). Other feeders do this, but the patent is for an especially simply designed and does not use a belt conveyer. It also does not wear out easily.
Date: November 7, 1893
Creator: Elam, William Erwin
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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.
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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Cotton-Choppers, of which the following is a specification. This invention relates to cotton choppers and the primary object of the invention is to provide a cotton chopper which may be mounted upon any cultivator frame and which will operate easily and efficiently to thin out standing cotton or other plants which are growing in rows" (lines 5-15).
Date: December 7, 1915
Creator: Jones, Martin A.
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Lift for Gin-Breasts.

Description: Patent for safely positioning the gin breast by including a operating lever to raise, swing, or lower the breast.
Date: June 7, 1921
Creator: Pool, Charles R. P.
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Baling-Press

Description: Patent for improvements in bailing presses, for baling cotton and other materials and substances. Baling press have strong and durable organization devices and mechanisms for feeding and pressing cotton.
Date: October 7, 1913
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
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