Patent Model of a Type-setting and Type-distributing Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1874
label: patent date
content: 1874-07-07
name: label: maker
content: Reynolds, John A.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for a typesetting machine which was granted patent numbers 152868 and 152869. Type stored in a case of vertical channels was selected and pushed out by keyboard action to a moving belt, then dropped down a slot to be assembled in a composing stick. For distribution, the dead matter was placed in front of the operator who read off and keyed in a line of letters. Each piece of type was pushed in turn onto the moving belt and dropped into its appropriate slot for return to the storage case. The two patents are demonstrated on a single model.
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Patent Models
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.89797.152868
label: accession number
content: 089797
label: catalog number
content: GA*89797.152868
objectType: label: Object Name
content: machine, typesetting
label: Object Name
content: Machine, Type Composing
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Other Terms
content: Machine, Type Composing; Machine, Sorts, Distributing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 31 cm x 34.8 cm x 39 cm; 12 3/16 in x 13 11/16 in x 15 3/8 in