Patent Model of a Typesetting for Stereotype Plates
date: label: date made
content: ca 1866
label: patent date
content: 1866-01-16
name: label: patentee
content: Paulding, John
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for a typesetter for stereotype plates which was granted patent number 52073. The invention included the use of a "perpetual font of type" for impressing letters into a plastic molding material. Type was stored in a permanent holder, each piece tied by a thin strip of metal. At the touch of a key, type fell to casting position, the faces protruding below the holder. After casting, the type was returned to the storage cell.
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.89797.052073
label: patent number
content: 052073
label: accession number
content: 089797
label: catalog number
content: GA*89797.052073
objectType: label: Object Name
content: machine, typesetting
label: Object Name
content: Machine, Type Composing
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: 20 cm x 17.5 cm x 7.8 cm; 7 7/8 in x 6 7/8 in x 3 1/16 in