National Museum of American History
Patent Model of a Printers' Lead Racks
Dearing, Octavus A. · ca 1873
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a printer's lead rack which was granted patent number 135894. The patent describes a cabinet of graded slots, vertically arranged. According to Dearing, leads were usually stored on ordinary type cases adapted for the purpose.
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