Patent Model for an Electrotype Printing block for Textile Printing
date: label: date made
content: ca 1859
label: patent date
content: 1859-11-01
name: label: maker
content: Crossley, Thomas
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for an electrotype printing block which was granted patent number 25954. Common textile printing blocks were made of wood. The wooden blocks gave trouble when wet, and their inclined walls tended to spread the color and broaden lines in printing fabric. This patent covered a method of making metal printing blocks with high vertical walls. Matrices were first constructed of numerous pieces of rectangular type of different lengths, then molded in wax, and finally electrotyped.
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.89797.025953
label: patent number
content: 025953
label: accession number
content: 089797
label: catalog number
content: GA*89797.25953
objectType: label: Object Name
content: manufacture, electrotype printing blocks
label: Object Name
content: Block
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Other Terms
content: Block; Printing; Relief
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 cm x 23.2 cm x 23 cm; 1 3/16 in x 9 1/8 in x 9 1/16 in