National Museum of American History
Patent Model of a Book-stitching Machine
Tapley, Jesse F. · ca 1882
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a book stitching machine which was granted patent number 265563. The machine includes improvements in sewing signatures of books. Stitches were of varying length, some of them being looped over binding tapes.
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