Patent model for printers' quoins
National Museum of American History

Patent model for printers' quoins

Whittlesey, George D. · ca 1878

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

This patent model demonstrates an invention for an elliptical quoin, set between ordinary sidesticks and turned by a wrench to force the sticks apart; the invention was granted patent number 201075.

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