Patent Model for a Card Gauge for Platen Printing Press
Patent Model for a Card Gauge for Platen Printing Press
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- Description (Brief)
- This patent model demonstrates an invention for a card guage for a platen printing press; the invention was granted patent number 145101. This invention provided a card feeder for Golding's Pearl press, which was covered by a patent of 1871 taken out by William L. Balch and assigned to Golding and his partner Edward Dennison (Patent 118182). William Golding (1845–1916) was apprenticed to a printer at the age of 15, and set up The Printer Manufactory Company at 23 with his partner, Edward Dennison. The company at first supplied stamps and seals and other stationery goods, but soon moved into the manufacture of small presses for amateurs, such as the Pearl, and then full-sized jobbing presses. Two years after Golding's death, the company was sold to the American Type Founders Company, which continued the manufacture of his presses for some years.
- Object Name
- patent model; press, printing
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- date made
- ca 1873
- patent date
- 1873-11-02
- inventor
- Golding, William H.
- maker
- Golding, William H.
- associated place
- United States
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 20.8 cm x 28.5 cm x 17.7 cm; 8 3/16 in x 11 7/32 in x 6 31/32 in
- ID Number
- 1996.0062.08
- catalog number
- 1996.0062.08
- patent number
- 145101
- accession number
- 1996.0062
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Patent Models, Graphic Arts
- Work
- Communications
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Patent Models
- Exhibition
- Printing at Home
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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