National Museum of American History
Patent Model of a Platen Printing Press
Forbush, Walter H. · ca 1869
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a platen jobbing press with stationary vertical type bed below a flat ink distributing surface in the same plane as the type. The lower part of the ink table shifted sideways, for better distribution. The invention was granted patent number 86064.
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