Patent Model for a Machine for Cutting Books
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1873
label: date made
content: ca 1864
label: patent date
content: 1864-01-19
name: label: patentee
content: Austin, Jane
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for a machine for cutting books which was granted patent number 41337. There was a guillotine for cutting the top, foot and foredges of books. Two sets of books could be clamped simultaneously, without moving the clamps between cuts. Jane Austin was administratrix to the estate of Frederick J. Austin, inventor of this and other book-binding machines. F. J. Austin, the proprietor of a machine works in New York, also built hand printing presses along the lines of the Washington. The model is incomplete.
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Patent Models
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.89797.041337
label: accession number
content: 089797
label: patent number
content: 041337
label: catalog number
content: GA*89797.041337
objectType: label: Object Name
content: machine, book cutting
label: Object Name
content: Apparatus?
label: Object Name
content: Bindery Machine
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Other Terms
content: Bindery Machine; Bookbinding; Book Trimming
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 cm x 18 cm x 20.5 cm; 9 1/16 in x 7 1/16 in x 8 1/16 in