Patent model for printers' quoins
Patent model for printers' quoins
- Description (Brief)
- This patent model demonstrates an invention for quoins slotted together along the oblique side, which included a key for their adjustment; the invention was granted patent number 228410. (Carlo Squintani was from London, England.)
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- patent model
- manufacture, printers quoins
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- date made
- ca 1880
- patent date
- 1880-06-01
- maker
- Squintani, Carlo G.
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 in x 2 in x 6 in; 2.54 cm x 5.08 cm x 15.24 cm
- ID Number
- 1996.0062.17
- patent number
- 228410
- accession number
- 1996.0062
- catalog number
- 1996.0062.17
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Work
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Communications
- Patent Models
- Patent Models, Graphic Arts
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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Alan Runfeldt
Thu, 2019-10-17 08:54