Patent Model for a Double Cylinder Flatbed Printing Press
National Museum of American History

Patent Model for a Double Cylinder Flatbed Printing Press

Hoe, Richard March · ca 1842

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

This patent model demonstrates an invention for various improvements on the English presses of Applegath, Napier, and others, especially methods of stopping and reversing the press bed in its travel and of raising the impression cylinders to allow the bed to pass underneath. The invention was granted patent number 2629.

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