Patent Model for a Rotary Perfecting Press
date: label: date made
content: ca 1863
label: patent date
content: 1863-04-14
name: label: maker
content: Bullock, William
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for the first of a generation of fast web perfecting presses which was granted patent number 38200. On this press, unlike its successors, the paper was cut into sheets before being printed. According to Stephen D. Tucker’s <I>History of R. Hoe & Company</I>, the web cutting knife had been used years before on a Hoe press, but the concept had not been patented.
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.11027
label: catalog number
content: GA*11027
label: accession number
content: 49064
label: patent number
content: 038200
label: catalog number
content: GA*49064.038200
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 perfecting, Bullock
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 10 in x 20 in; 24.13 cm x 25.4 cm x 50.8 cm