Patent Model for a Rotary Web Press
date: label: date made
content: ca 1853
label: patent date
content: 1853-01-04
name: label: maker
content: Wilkinson, Jephtha A.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for a rotary press using tapered type on its type cylinders along with a special curved composing stick; the web of paper was cut and folded at the same machine, after printing. The invention was granted patent number 468.
label: Description (Brief)
content: According to Stephen D. Tucker’s <I>History of R. Hoe & Company,</I> Wilkinson built a press along these lines for the <I>New York Sun</I> in 1842, but never succeeded in printing the paper at it.
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.11019
label: catalog number
content: GA*11019
label: accession number
content: 48865
label: patent number
content: 009525
label: catalog number
content: GA*48865.009525
objectType: label: Object Name
content: patent model; press, printing
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Other Terms
content: patent model; press, printing; press, web-fed, Wilkinson
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 7 in x 17 1/4 in; 20.32 cm x 17.78 cm x 43.815 cm