National Museum of American History
Patent Model for a Flatbed Cylinder Press
Newbury, Alonzo · ca 1856
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a press with a stationary bed which was granted patent number 15740. The cylinder followed an endless rack that lifted it for the return trip over the bed. This patent covered the Newbury Country Press, a small hand-powered printing machine that was popular with country newspaper shops in the 1860s.
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