Patent Model of a Platen Printing Press
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1869
label: patent date
content: 1869-11-23
name: label: maker
content: Gally, Merritt
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for a platen printing press which was granted patent number 87185. The patent covered various improvements on the inventor's earlier Universal press, a popular platen jobber in which the platen had a parallel approach to the bed. Merritt Gaily (born 1838) was apprenticed to a printer at 11, and he built a cylinder and a platen press while in his teens. In 1869 he set up a factory to build his new Universal press.
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.89797.097185
label: patent number
content: 097185
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: catalog number
content: GA*89797.097185
objectType: label: Object Name
content: patent model; press, printing
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Other Terms
content: print; press, platen jobber, Gally
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25.8 cm x 29.5 cm x 21.5 cm; 10 3/16 in x 11 5/8 in x 8 7/16 in