Patent Model of a Plate Printing Press
date: label: date made
content: ca 1860
label: patent date
content: 1860-10-23
name: label: maker
content: Oakes, W. H.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for an intaglio system that was designed to speed the operation of copperplate wiping, using an ordinary platen lever press. After paper was pressed against the face of the engraved plate, ink was piped from a reservoir to spaces under the plate and then forced up through holes in the plate into the engraved lines. Here the ink made contact with the paper. Unused ink was then sucked back out of the lines, leaving the plate clean as the platen was lifted again for the next sheet. The invention was granted patent number 30495.
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.89797.030495
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 030495
label: catalog number
content: GA*89797.030495
objectType: label: Object Name
content: patent model; press, printing
label: Object Name
content: Plate
label: Object Name
content: plate relief etching
label: Object Type
content: plate
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: 27.5 cm x 20.3 cm x 23 cm; 10 13/16 in x 8 in x 9 1/16 in