Patent Model for an Electrotype Printing block for Textile Printing
Patent Model for an Electrotype Printing block for Textile Printing
- Description (Brief)
- This patent model demonstrates an invention for an electrotype printing block which was granted patent number 25954. Common textile printing blocks were made of wood. The wooden blocks gave trouble when wet, and their inclined walls tended to spread the color and broaden lines in printing fabric. This patent covered a method of making metal printing blocks with high vertical walls. Matrices were first constructed of numerous pieces of rectangular type of different lengths, then molded in wax, and finally electrotyped.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- manufacture, electrotype printing blocks
- Block
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- Other Terms
- Block; Printing; Relief
- date made
- ca 1859
- patent date
- 1859-11-01
- maker
- Crossley, Thomas
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 cm x 23.2 cm x 23 cm; 1 3/16 in x 9 1/8 in x 9 1/16 in
- ID Number
- GA.89797.025953
- patent number
- 025953
- accession number
- 089797
- catalog number
- GA*89797.25953
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Patent Models, Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Work
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Patent Models
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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