National Museum of American History
Patent model for printers' shooting sticks
Blackwell, Benjamin B. · ca 1870
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a shooting stick, used for driving in quoins, or wedges, to tighten a form in its chase; the invention was granted patent number 107154. These sticks had different-sized notches to fit different quoins, and two wings to help open spaces for the quoins among the furniture.
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