This patent model demonstrates an invention for a sheet delivery apparatus which was granted patent number 227599. The patent describes an improved sheet-collecting cylinder and pasting apparatus.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a picture frame for hanging on the wall, combined with a writing desk and toiletries case; the invention was granted patent number 191795. The frame was in the form of a box with compartments for toiletries and writing materials, a central hinged leaf with mirror on one side and a writing surface on the other.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a card printing and numbering machine which was granted patent number 21418. The patent describes a little press with a numbering wheel, designed primarily for the production of railroad tickets. Hill was a pioneer in numbering machines. His city, Buffalo, N.Y., became a center of the rail ticket business.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a type-rubbing machine which was granted patent number 225501. The patent details a machine for smoothing and trueing the surfaces of type, and bringing the type to a proper width. The machine was hand fed, but otherwise automatic.
This tinted lithograph of “Metamorphic Rocks - Borders of the Desert" was produced after an original sketch by expedition artist Charles Koppel (fl. 1853-1865). It was printed as Plate XIII in Volume V, Part II, following page 235, in the "Geological Report by W. P. Blake, Geologist and Minerologist to the Expedition," as part of the “Routes in California, to Connect with the Routes near the Thirty–Fifth and Thirty–Second Parallels, Explored by Lieutenant R. S. Williamson, Corps of Topographical Engineers, in 1853."
The volume was printed as part of the "Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean" in 1856 by A. P. O. Nicholson (1808-1876) of Washington, D.C.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a self-inking platen jobbing press with a vertical bed and platen which was brought together by toggle levers. An inking cylinder sat beneath the bed, and a frisket frame was lifted up between impressions to receive sheets of paper. The invention was granted patent number 3716. This invention first appeared as Gilman's job press, and then from 1846 to 1873 as the Hoe Company's Patent Machine Card Press.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for an apparatus for postmarking and postmark-cancelling; it was granted patent number 219587. The patent details the feeding mechanism for a postmarking machine.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a portable hand press which was granted patent number 16718. The cylinder and handle of this portable roller press are fastened on the end of a long sliding shaft. In the 1870s, patentee Nathaniel Chamberlain, as he spelled his name then, ran a Boston business specializing in office stamps for banks and counting houses.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for an apparatus that delivers sheets printed side up, without risk of smudging when fresh ink came into contact with delivery tapes; the invention was granted patent number 221458.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a book-stitching machine which was granted patent number 197575. The patent details a shuttle sewing machine for stitching productions such as pamphlets, catalogs and periodicals, with a continuously lubricated needle. Patentee Carl Theine was from Minden, Germany.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a sheet-feed apparatus which was granted patent number 100059. The top sheet was lifted by suction cups, the table dropped a little, and jets of air completed the separation of the sheet from the pile.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a paper cutting machine using a guillotine blade drawn through a stack of paper on a slanting downward path. The invention was granted patent number 127226. Model broken.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a self-inking press which was granted number 3917. The press has a vertical bed and platen, and sheet grippers traveling on an endless chain. The model is damaged.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a platen printing press; the invention was granted patent number 188151. The patent describes improvements to the ink fountain and the movement of the platen in a platen jobbing press. Patentees Kritch and Greenwood were from Leeds, England.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a bookbinders standing press which was granted patent number 30243. The press has a platen, or upper follower, lowered in the usual way by an iron screw, and a bed, or lower follower, that was raised by a rack and pinion.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a lithographic printing press which was granted patent number 87950. The flatbed cylinder press included an adjustable bed, an apparatus to lift the rollers from the stone, and a receiving cylinder with grippers to take the sheet from the impression cylinder. Marinoni, a leading French press builder, assigned these patent rights to R. Hoe & Co.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a method of improved ink distribution on flatbed cylinder presses. The patent was granted number 173085.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for quoins that were adjusted by means of concentric projecting spirals on one half, working on concentric grooves in the other. The invention was granted patent number 223192.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for Bryant's hand mold with a double matrix, intended for the casting of "pointed type" as used by the blind. The invention was granted patent number 30293. The letters (not Braille signs) in the matrices were built up from the sharp ends of wires.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a sheet-feed apparatus which was granted patent number 143740. The patent is for a pneumatic feeder adaptable to sheets of different sizes, as well as sheets for printing on both sides.