Patent model for printers' extension sidesticks
National Museum of American History

Patent model for printers' extension sidesticks

Uhlhorn, John F. · ca 1871

wood (overall material)
National Museum of American History
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of American History

This patent model demonstrates an invention for sidesticks composed of two parts that fitted together, tongue in groove, in such a way that the full length of the stick always pressed on the type, no matter how far the two parts were pulled out. The invention was granted patent number 115136.

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