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El Campo Cotton Platform

Description: Photograph taken at El Campo Cotton Platform, which appears to be a kind of property used for the processing and harvesting of cotton. On the platform itself, there are various stacked piles of cotton and hay bales. A procession of horse-drawn wagons on the dirt road in front of the platform are moving forward. Helvig J. Berndt is in one of the wagons, but his actual location hasn't been specified. Additionally, two children can be seen joining the male driver in the front wagon. The photograp… more
Date: 1920/1940
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Partner: Danish Heritage Preservation Society

[Men in cotton field]

Description: Black and white photograph (faded) of three men in cotton field, unidentified. Carruth Studio, Denton. Taken and collected by H.F.Browder, former county agent, Denton County.
Date: 1920~
Creator: Browder, H. F.
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[Sultzer's Cotton Patch]

Description: Photograph of a group of adults, children, and a dog standing in a cotton patch. The reverse side of the photo identifies the people as Mr. Sultzer, Mack Roberson, Mrs. and Mr. Hawkins, and the Sultzer boys.
Date: 1920~
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Partner: Pottsboro Public Library

Linting Machine.

Description: Patent for a linting machine (Carver type) that contains an air pocket at the end of the passage to prevent cotton from clogging the machine.
Date: August 10, 1920
Creator: Woodrow, George N. & Bruce, Thomas D.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Picking Cotton.

Description: Patent for an improved machine for picking cotton that is designed for the purpose of picking cotton fiber from the plants of the row. The machine is adapted to pass along over the row to extract the fiber from the bolls of the plants. The machine's provision allows for discharging the hairy tuft of the cotton seeds into elevating chutes so that the cotton seed can be discharged into a suitable receptacle mounted upon the framework of the machine.
Date: May 18, 1920
Creator: Threadgill, Wilmer
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Cotton Blocking Machine

Description: Patent for an inexpensive attachment to a cotton cultivator/checking machine to improve the intake capacity of the cultivator itself. The blocking machine would be used to replace the manual labor task of chopping cotton before insertion into the cultivator for processing.
Date: October 19, 1920
Creator: Ford, Barnie S.
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Wire-Straightening Tool.

Description: Patent for a wire straightening tool, with illustrations, that relies on a series of levers and cams to apply pressure to the wire as it is pulled through. The patent notes that "the wires can be straightened quickly and with facility, thereby permitting the using of all twisted and bent wire which has heretofore gone to waste and resulting in considerable saving of metal" (page 2, lines 14-18).
Date: January 27, 1920
Creator: Cervenka, Frank L.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Huller

Description: Patent for hullers for removing hulls of shells for seeds or other similar products. The invention "is of especial utility in hullers for cottons seeds." However, it is noted that a cotton seed huller is only one adaptation of the invention.
Date: December 21, 1920
Creator: Vardell, Arthur A. & Highland Gee Vardell
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oil-Expressing Cage and Press.

Description: Patent for improvements to Oil Expressing Cages and Presses "for the extraction of oil from cotton seed cake or the like" (lines 11-12) that allows for multiple oil cakes and press plates which can be "readily inserted in or removed from the press as occasion requires" (lines 22-23).
Date: October 26, 1920
Creator: Henry, Nelson B.
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Gin

Description: Patent for a gin that will strip fiber from the seed, "motes", and other "foreign bodies" (lines 27-28) without damaging the fiber.
Date: January 13, 1920
Creator: Tischer, Edward R.
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Power Reversing Mechanism

Description: Patent for a power reversing mechanism that "provides an automatic means for causing the platen to of the packer to reciprocate continuously...(lines 15-17)."
Date: September 14, 1920
Creator: Cameron, Theodore R.
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Cotton-Picking Nozzle.

Description: Patent for a new cotton picking nozzle that can be used with a suction device to pick cotton more efficiently, including illustrations.
Date: March 30, 1920
Creator: Taylor, Charles E.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Tramper.

Description: Patent for a cotton tramper that allows the plunger mechanism to operate automatically when needed to enhance the item's utility.
Date: September 7, 1920
Creator: Jacob, Ernst A. H.
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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for improvements to Cotton-Choppers. The invention relates to the agricultural implements and more particularly to machines for thinning rows of cotton, whereby to prevent crowding of the plants and insuring a stocky growth which will under favorable condition produce a good crop.
Date: January 20, 1920
Creator: Ogden, James D.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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