Hay Press (open access)

Hay Press

Patent for a hay press. This invention includes a reciprocating plunger with plunger heads and designed to work in separate compressing chambers. Illustrations included.
Date: May 19, 1908
Creator: Biela, Valentine
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter. (open access)

Planter.

Patent for a planter for planting cotton seed, which can be used with a walking or wheeled planter and automatically drops seeds when moving forward but not backward, and which can have the mechanism turned off while in transit.
Date: July 2, 1907
Creator: Vaughn, George Washington
System: The Portal to Texas History