National Museum of American History
Patent Model for a Flatbed Cylinder Printing Press
Davis, John C. · ca 1857
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a flatbed cylinder press which was granted patent number 16826. The bed on this flatbed cylinder press ran on sloping ways, or tracks. For the impression pass, the bed was powered up the slope and under the cylinder. It was returned by gravity.
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