Machine for Putting Ties on Bales.
Description:
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…
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Date:
May 1, 1888
Creator:
Dunbar, William E.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department