Patent Model for a Hand Printing Press
date: label: date made
content: ca 1857
label: patent date
content: 1857-05-26
name: label: maker
content: Learned, S. D.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for a small self-inking card press which was granted patent number 17405. A traveling frame carried the inking and impression rollers across the fixed type bed and ink plate.
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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.89797.017405
label: accession number
content: 089797
label: patent number
content: 017405
label: catalog number
content: GA*89797.017405
objectType: label: Object Name
content: patent model
label: Object Name
content: press, printing
label: Object Name
content: Delivery Apparatus
label: Object Name
content: sheet delivery apparatus
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: 9.3 cm x 30.1 cm x 15.8 cm; 3 11/16 in x 11 7/8 in x 6 1/4 in