Patent Model for a Rotary and Perfecting Web Press
date: label: date made
content: ca 1875
label: patent date
content: 1875-11-09
name: label: patentee
content: Firm, Joseph L.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for a rotary and perfecting web press; the invention was granted patent number 169796. The rotary press has two type cylinders, two impression cylinders, and a knife to cut the sheet from the web of paper before the first impression was made.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Half the rights were assigned to Calvert B. Cottrell and Nathan Babcock, press builders, of Westerly, Rhode Island. Joseph Firm (born 1837) followed an interest in printing from his high school days. Apprenticed to Harper & Row and later employed by Frank Leslie, he was responsible for many patents and particularly concerned with large, fast presses. After 1892 he associated himself with the Goss Printing Press Company, which built some of his presses.
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.24906
label: patent number
content: 169796
label: accession number
content: 1978.1070
label: catalog number
content: GA*24906
objectType: label: Object Name
content: patent model; press, printing
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 3/4 in x 8 1/4 in x 5 in; 29.845 cm x 20.955 cm x 12.7 cm