Patent model for printers' shooting sticks
date: label: date made
content: ca 1870
label: patent date
content: 1870-09-06
name: label: maker
content: Blackwell, Benjamin B.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for a shooting stick, used for driving in quoins, or wedges, to tighten a form in its chase; the invention was granted patent number 107154. These sticks had different-sized notches to fit different quoins, and two wings to help open spaces for the quoins among the furniture.
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0062.03
label: patent number
content: 107154
label: accession number
content: 1996.0062
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0062.03
label: patent number
content: 107154
objectType: label: Object Name
content: patent model
label: Object Name
content: stick, shooting
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.7 cm x 23 cm x 7.7 cm; 1 1/16 in x 9 1/16 in x 3 1/16 in