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Card-Cutting Attachment for Printing Presses.Speight, (open access)

Card-Cutting Attachment for Printing Presses.Speight,

Patent for a device that can be attached to a printing press, for the express purpose of being able to cut multiple copies of cards from a single sheet of card stock with metal dies.
Date: December 10, 1901
Creator: Speight, Winchester Franklin,
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Harvester (open access)

Corn-Harvester

Patent for a corn harvester "for use in harvesting crops such as corn and cane, the purpose being to provide a machine of this type of simple, durable, and compact construction and which will be light construction and not fatigue the team, since the body or frame supporting the operating parts is balanced upon the ground or supporting wheels" (lines 12-19) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 10, 1901
Creator: Sewalt, Matthew E.
System: The Portal to Texas History