National Museum of American History
Patent Model of a Platen Printing Press
Gordon, George Phineas · ca 1861
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a platen press in which the platen had, in addition to the usual rocking motion, a straight-line approach that took it perfectly parallel to the type bed for the impression. The invention was granted patent number 32130.
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