Machine for Putting Ties on Bales. (open access)

Machine for Putting Ties on Bales.

Patent for a new and improved machine for putting ties on bales. This design consists in a "frame-work which is to be placed across the bale . . . a shaft journaled in the frame and provided with a reel at each end, and pawls and ratchets with hooked ropes or chains . . . a double rope which is to be passed around the bale . . . and suitable U-shaped hooks . . . to provide a machine whereby cotton and other bales can be compressed at that point where the tie has come off, so as to allow another tie to be placed around the bale, and thus prevent the loss of material" (lines 16-33).
Date: May 1, 1888
Creator: Dunbar, William E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Motor. (open access)

Mechanical Motor.

Patent for a new and improved motor. This design consists, "with the frame having the side and end slots, of the two drive-wheels and their springs, the movable spring-actuated shaft having the central pinion, the pivoted lever, the catch of the same, the crank-shaft formed with the central crank and having the pinion, the connecting-pitman, the pivoted adjustable fan-rod formed with the series of apertures near its upper end and along its central part, the adjustable weight, and the connecting-rod" (lines 116-126).
Date: May 8, 1888
Creator: Haines, Samuel Alfred
System: The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Packing Cotton. (open access)

Machine for Packing Cotton.

Patent for a new and improved packer. This design consists "[i]n a cotton-packer, the combination of the frame, guides mounted therein, rack-bars moving in the said guides, a press-box and steam-cylinder, and heads secured to the rack-bars and moving in the press-box and cylinder, respectively, cog-wheels of different diameters journaled in the frame and meshing with the rack-bars, and anti-friction rollers pivoted in the guides and bearing against the rack-bars" (lines 4-13).
Date: May 21, 1889
Creator: Brady, Farley
System: The Portal to Texas History