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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

[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

Bale-Tie Buckle

Description: Patent for bale tie buckle that is adapted for use on high density cotton bales, and provide a simple buckle which has requisite strength, can be tied on the bales with great rapidity, can be used at the gins as the bales are first made, can be rapidly removed from the bales of cotton when taken to the compresses without injury to the buckle, and which will be ready for immediate reuse on either the standard bale or the high density compressed bale.
Date: 191X
Creator: Todd, James T. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[News Script: Sen. Eastland]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Texas Cotton Ginners Association's 48th annual meeting.
Date: April 10, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Cotton burs]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about cotton burs being used as fertilizer.
Date: April 26, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The News-Tribune Newspaper Clipping from July 30, 1976]

Description: Newspaper clipping from The News-Tribune with an article written by Mrs. H. W. Godbey; on the reverse side there is a sports article written by Jack Murphy. Godbey's article describes the history of Haslet, Texas and says the last cotton gin in town had been sold and how the state of the town had worsened since 1936 when it had "two grocery stores, one notion store, two or three cafes, two filling stations, two cotton gins, three churches, one drug store and a high school." Murphy's article t… more
Date: July 30, 1976
Creator: Murphy, Jack & Godbey, Mrs. H. W.
Partner: Haslet Public Library
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[News Clip: Webb Cotton Gin Burns]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a fire at a cotton gin.
Date: October 5, 1952
Duration: 1 minute 29 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Process of Ginning, Cleaning, and Bleaching Cotton.

Description: Patent for improvements to the processes of ginning, cleaning, and bleaching cotton, and "particularly to stripping the lint cotton from the seed and for treating cotton with an air treatment after it leaves the saws" (lines 10-13), including illustrations.
Date: June 19, 1917
Creator: Hodo, Wesley A. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Saw-Filing Machine.

Description: Patent for a gin and linter saw filing machine that is fully automatic and can sharpen multiple saws in succession and then stop when finished without resetting the device or manually stopping it. It also can sharpen saws of varying sizes and thicknesses to different levels of sharpness.
Date: March 5, 1907
Creator: Beaver, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Saw Tester

Description: Patent for a device that tests and trains saws for cotton gins. Detects cups and kinks in the saw and prevent the saw from being burned.
Date: January 2, 1912
Creator: Cass, Thomas M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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