Patent Model for a Rotary Perfecting Press
date: label: date made
content: ca 1872
label: patent date
content: 1872-09-10
name: label: maker
content: Tucker, Stephen D.
label: maker
content: Hoe, Richard March
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for a rotary printing press which was granted patent number 131217. The invention offers a new system of feeding, carrying, and delivering sheets for rotary perfecting presses. The model consists of the central group of feeding cylinders. According to Stephen D. Tucker’s <I>History of R. Hoe & Company,</I> a press on this plan was capable of printing 8000 sheets per hour and was used successfully by the New York Daily News.
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.89797.131217
label: patent number
content: 131217
label: accession number
content: 089797
label: catalog number
content: GA*89797.131217
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Press, Printing, Part of
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Other Terms
content: Press, Printing, Part of; Relief
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 cm x 14 cm x 15 cm; 4 5/16 in x 5 1/2 in x 5 7/8 in