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Electric Time - Switch (open access)

Electric Time - Switch

Patent for a new and improved electric time switch to "used on any kind of electric circuits" (line 13 - 14).
Date: November 23, 1897
Creator: Williams, Addison B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press. (open access)

Cotton-Press.

Patent for a cotton press with "a roller bed consisting of a plurality of rollers in conjunction with an overlying pressure roll or cylinder, between which and the roller-bed the bale is formed by winding up the bat, as it comes from the gin-condenser, in the form of a roll" (lines 15-20). The roll-bale is unique in this patent because of its core.
Date: March 23, 1897
Creator: Banister, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History