Patent Model for a Type Rubbing Machine
National Museum of American History

Patent Model for a Type Rubbing Machine

Moore, Daniel · ca 1855

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

This patent model demonstrates an invention for a type-rubbing machine which was granted patent number 13935. Type was passed endwise through the cutters, one piece at a time. This avoided the damage to hairlines or to the face produced by machines that took the type either sideways or in an endwise procession.

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