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Lever-Operated Cutting Mechanism (open access)

Lever-Operated Cutting Mechanism

Patent for lever-operated cutting mechanism, that used leavers to provide a cutting surface that is both adjustable and can be reversibly held, including illustrations.
Date: August 21, 1900
Creator: Orr, William Oliver
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press. (open access)

Hay-Press.

Patent for hay presses with "a construction operable by horse-power in which the plunger will be operated as the sweep is moved in both directions and in which, furthermore, there will be an efficiency of operation and an economy of power" (lines 11-16).
Date: December 18, 1900
Creator: Bryant, Edward R.
System: The Portal to Texas History