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Baling Press. (open access)

Baling Press.

Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the horizontal driving-screw, the plunger, connections between the plunger and the screw, the endwise-moveable vertical shaft, gearing between the said shaft and the driving screw, the lever supporting said shaft, the [other] lever and the links connecting the [latter] lever with the [former] lever" (lines 33-39).
Date: August 5, 1890
Creator: Nelson, George A.
System: The Portal to Texas History