Patent model for sheet-gripper motions for flatbed cylinder presses
date: label: date made
content: ca 1878
label: patent date
content: 1878-09-24
name: label: maker
content: Babcock, Nathan
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for improvements in the action of gripper fingers on press cylinders; the invention was granted patent number 208359.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Nathan Babcock (1824-1902) set up a partnership in 1855 with Calvert B. Cottrell, initially manufacturing wool and cotton machinery, but he quickly turning to printing presses. He retired from the wool and cotton company in 1880, and established the Babcock Printing Press Manufactory in 1882. Model incomplete, all critical parts missing.
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.89797.208359
label: accession number
content: 089797
label: patent number
content: 208359
label: catalog number
content: GA*89797.208359
objectType: label: Object Name
content: apparatus, sheet gripper motions
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 cm x 20 cm x 10.7 cm; 4 3/4 in x 7 7/8 in x 4 3/16 in