Description:
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Texas Cotton Ginners' Association in their 60th annual convention. More than 2,000 people attended the convention.
Date:
February 26, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Description:
Letter from Thos. L. James to D. W. Kempner discussing James' gin operation figures for 1949, which were given in an attached statement, and future operations
Description:
Letter from A. H. Blackshear, Jr.. to D. W. Kempner enclosing position reports, a financial statement, a letter to the Commerce Trust Company of Kansas City, and discussing payments received and cotton production at Plantersville.
Description:
Letter from D. W. Kempner to W. L. Gatz discussing loan details. He explains an oversight regarding loan limit at United States National Bank and mentions the possibility of obtaining a loan secured by collateral. He also requests a detailed list of gins and additional equipment needed.
Date:
January 26, 1949
Creator:
Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Description:
Patent for a new and improved attachment for cotton gins. This design "consists of a lever-frame journaled to the gin-frame and carrying a shaft provided with a friction-pulley which may, by will of the operator, be thrown in contact with the driving-pulley of the gin, thus rotating the shaft, which is provided with a set of cleaning-blades fitting between the gin-saws between which they are, by the said mechanism, made to revolve rapidly, thus cleaning the said saws" (lines 18-27).
Description:
Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design "is to provide certain means whereby the breast and guard can be readily and quickly moved and held out of their normal position for the purpose of clearing or freeing the cotton-roll from the saws, and preventing injury to the operator by said saws" (lines 7-13).
Description:
Patent for improvements to machines used for breaking or crushing cotton bolls "which will initially break the cotton bolls before the cotton with its bolls passes to the cotton gin." (lines 13-15).
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