Patent model for printers' quoins
date: label: date made
content: ca 1879
label: date made
content: ca 1878
label: patent date
content: 1879-02-25
name: label: patentee
content: Gillin, Robert F.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for printers' quoins including locking bars which secured the type within the chase, and the chase on the bed of the press, without the use of wooden furniture to pack spaces. One end of the bar was oblique and included a toothed pinion. A short toothed piece with a matching taper fit across the end of the bar to lock against the chase or bed wall, and was tightened by turning the toothed pinion. The invention was granted patent number 212683.
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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.89797.212683
label: patent number
content: 212683
label: accession number
content: 089797
label: catalog number
content: GA*89797.212683
objectType: label: Object Name
content: manufacture, printers quoins
label: Object Name
content: Case, Bodkan and Tweezers
label: Object Name
content: case, bodkan and tweezers
label: Object Name
content: quoins
label: Object Name
content: printers quoins
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (part material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 cm x 30 cm x 28 cm; 13/16 in x 11 13/16 in x 11 in