Patent model for printers' sidesticks and quoins
National Museum of American History

Patent model for printers' sidesticks and quoins

House, Thomas J. · 1869

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

This patent model demonstrates an invention for paired sidesticks, grooved and tapered on the inside surfaces to take matching quoins; the invention was granted patent number 87339. The sticks were held together loosely by dowels.

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