National Museum of American History
Patent Model of a Flatbed Cylinder Printing Press
Hawkins, John T. · ca 1879
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a flatbed cylinder press which was granted patent number 221459. The patent describes a means of lifting the cylinder of a press by springs, rather than by the usual counterweights, so that the full weight of the cylinder could be used for the impression.
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