National Museum of American History
Patent model for printers' quoins
Lame, Samuel C. · ca 1874
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a three-part quoin, the parts being held together by a key passing through a slot in the central wedge; the invention was granted patent number 148308. Roughened sides of the quoin prevented slippage on other furniture.
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