Resource Type

Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for a wrench designed for right and left-handed users, makes for simpler use of tool by having fewer components than other more standards wrenches.
Date: February 9, 1915
Creator: Wulff, William F. & Wulff, M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Press. (open access)

Press.

Patent for a new and improved press. This design "consists in compressing-rollers placed in suitable bearings, so as to coincide with an inlet-channel which receives and guides the fibrous substance to be baled into the baling-box of a press after the compressing-rollers have given it a preparatory pressing" (lines 10-16).
Date: February 9, 1886
Creator: Holmgreen, Julius H.
System: The Portal to Texas History