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Cotton Gin.

Description: Patent for a new and improved cotton gin. This design consists of an "endless wire-gauze band or apron, bound at its sides with strips of flexible material, such as leather . . . and provided on its inner side with slats, in combination with the saw-shaft, the condenser-roller, and the upper roller, around which the band passes, provided with longitudinal channels . . . in [a] cylinder and [a] wiper" (lines 81-92).
Date: June 14, 1881
Creator: Edgar, Valentine K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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