Patent Model for a Double Cylinder Flatbed Printing Press
date: label: date made
content: ca 1842
label: patent date
content: 1842-05-20
name: label: patentee
content: Hoe, Richard March
label: maker
content: Hoe, Richard March
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for various improvements on the English presses of Applegath, Napier, and others, especially methods of stopping and reversing the press bed in its travel and of raising the impression cylinders to allow the bed to pass underneath. The invention was granted patent number 2629.
label: Description (Brief)
content: This was the patent for Hoe's Pony press, built specifically for the <I>New York Sun</I> to print 5-6,000 impressions per hour. Richard March Hoe (1812-1886) was the son of Robert Hoe, founder of the original company, which he took over in 1833 after his father's death. Among many outstanding inventions, his most famous press was the Lightning of 1846. He was also known for solicitous management of his employees, for whom he set up set up a free but compulsory apprentice school.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view (printing press fragment)
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content: Patent Models
label: Exhibition
content: Art in Industry
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.11023
label: catalog number
content: GA*11023
label: accession number
content: 48865
label: patent number
content: 002629
objectType: label: Object Name
content: patent model; press, printing
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Other Terms
content: patent model; press, printing; press, two cylinder, Hoe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 11 in x 25 1/4 in; 38.1 cm x 27.94 cm x 64.135 cm