Hay-Press. (open access)

Hay-Press.

Patent for an improved, inexpensive, and simple hay press that "alternately feed[s] the hay into the chamber, and press the same, the two mechanisms being operated from the same source; to provide for increase of power, and for regulating the tension or mouth of the press at the point of exit of the completed bale" (lines 12-18).
Date: May 2, 1893
Creator: Thompson, Joseph F.; Murphree, Richard L. & Harrison, William D.
System: The Portal to Texas History