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Boll Cotton Gin.

Description: Patent for an improved boll-cotton gin which gathers the cotton bolls without crushing them or intermingling the product with impurities by separating the seed cotton from the bolls and hulls.
Date: June 9, 1914
Creator: Hopper, James F.
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Bailing-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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Cotton-Boll Harvester.

Description: Patent for improvements to the cotton-boll harvesters. "..has for its principal object the production of a structure which will quickly and readily strip the unopened bolls from the cotton stalks"( line 9-14)
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Smith, Millard Elmor & Simmons, J.T.
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Boll Breaking or Crushing Machine.

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).
Date: October 26, 1915
Creator: South, John T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Cotton picking system]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about Ellis County farmer Marvin Borders, utilizing a new type of mechanical cotton picker to revolutionize his business.
Date: September 19, 1951
Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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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

Attachment for Huller-Gins

Description: Patent for the type of cotton gin known as huller gins. It is an attachment intended to force cotton through portions of the huller gin that often becomes blocked by accumulated detritus.
Date: February 12, 1918
Creator: Prichard, William Mathews
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Cotton-Sack Hanger.

Description: Patent for a hanger designed to easily attach and detach from a cotton sack without damaging the sack or the hands of a cotton picker. It is designed to be made of a single piece of material and may be used to hang the sack on a scale for weighing the contents.
Date: July 22, 1919
Creator: Hamrick, Walter
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By-Pass Draft Fan

Description: Patent for bypass draft fans used for the functioning of pneumatic conveyors. Pneumatic conveyors are used to transport solid materials through pipelines with the flow of air or other gases. Most pneumatic conveyors are located in mechanical processing plants.
Date: September 2, 1919
Creator: Martin, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Mills County Planter's Gin]

Description: Photograph of a large, corrugated metal building with four men standing in front of the entrance at the bottom center of the photograph. Writing on the top edge of the photo reads, "Planter's Gin" and text written on the back reads "Planters Gin Mills County". Another line of text on the back is scribbled out.
Date: unknown
Partner: Jennie Trent Dew Library

[Goldthwaite Gin]

Description: Photocopy of two barn-like structures that appear to be close by or attached to one another, with a smokestack coming out of the structure on the right. A wood tower with a large,barrel-shaped container at the top is visible center of the photo between the two buildings. A man is visible standing in a wide opening in the second floor of the building on the left. "Goldthwaite Gin" is written on the back.
Date: unknown
Partner: Jennie Trent Dew Library
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