Resource Type

Month

Cotton-Press. (open access)

Cotton-Press.

Patent for "a compress having a continuous operation, whereby one bale of cotton is being formed by the compress all the time the same is working, and thereby rendering it unnecessary to completely stop the working of the entire press for every single bale made until the bale can be wrapped and discharged out of the press." (Lines 15-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 14, 1896
Creator: Griffin, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mergenthaler Linotype-Machine. (open access)

Mergenthaler Linotype-Machine.

Patent for an improvement "to the elevator-arm of the Mergenthaler linotype-machine, and its object is to prevent the rubbing of the matrices against the inner walls of the channel-plates when being raised therefrom." (Lines 9-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 7, 1896
Creator: Sundstrom, Herman Theodor
System: The Portal to Texas History