This patent model demonstrates an invention for a typesetting machine; the invention was granted patent number 174901. The patent details a keyboard-operated typesetting machine that set type in a line and then broke the line into column lengths. Patentee Charles Dickinson was at some time a partner in the development of the Burr-Empire line of typesetting machines.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a typesetting machine which was granted patent number 57034. Type was held in cases arranged radially around a rotating "receiver." As each letter was selected at a keyboard it was released to the receiver, lined up, and passed to a galley.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a numbering and paging machine which was granted patent number 112292. The patent details improvements to a numbering machine to be operated by hand, foot, or mechanical power.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a machine for automatically rounding and backing books using two shaped bars--the presser bar and the backing bar; the invention was granted patent number 158679.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for composite printing blocks made up of long pieces of type and short blanks; the invention was granted patent number 10483.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a type-setting machine which was granted patent number 10929. The patent details improvements on Mitchel's earlier patent of 1853 for composing and distributing apparatus. Specifically, the patent covered a method of conveying type to the composer, and a wheel for setting the type in line. The model shows only the composing wheel.
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.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for an intaglio printing press, which was granted patent number 210116. The patent describes a plate wiping mechanism that reproduced the sweeping movement of the human hand. The wiping cloth was in lengths travelling from one storage roller to another, always offering a fresh portion to the plate. Constant Guy was from Paris, France.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for color printing blocks which was granted patent number 172340. The invention included multicolor printing blocks particularly intended for oilcloths, requiring colors to be applied thickly and in an intricate pattern. The blocks were pierced by channels, which conducted the ink from reservoirs of converging tubes surmounting the blocks.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a method of printing large music charts for educational purposes; the invention was granted patent number 78855. The type was made of wood. Each note came with its part of the staff lines, and with shoulders that interlocked and overlapped with those of its neighbors, to produce a continuous line of music.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a flatbed cylinder press which was granted patent number 221459. The patent describes a means of lifting the cylinder of a press by springs, rather than by the usual counterweights, so that the full weight of the cylinder could be used for the impression.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a copper plate press which was granted patent number 245970. The patent describes a flatbed cylinder power press intended for printing bank notes and other high-quality work, with improved wiping apparatus that did not use the customary whiting powder as a polisher. The specification includes a brief discussion of the recent development of plate printing machines, beginning with Neale's first British patent of 1853.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a type-rubbing machine which was granted patent number 13935. Type was passed endwise through the cutters, one piece at a time. This avoided the damage to hairlines or to the face produced by machines that took the type either sideways or in an endwise procession.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a flatbed cylinder press which was granted patent number 124460. The patent describes improved mechanisms for control of the impression cylinder, inking rollers, sheet flier, and feed guides on stop cylinder presses for typographic or lithographic printing. The model is broken and incomplete.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a chase that eliminated the need for furniture; the invention was granted patent number 228201. Four metal bars, matching the inside length and breadth of the chase, were toothed along their outer sides. The bars could be locked in any position in the chase by four matching toothed blocks that fitted at the crossing points.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a printer's lead rack which was granted patent number 135894. The patent describes a cabinet of graded slots, vertically arranged. According to Dearing, leads were usually stored on ordinary type cases adapted for the purpose.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a sheet delivery apparatus which was granted patent number 192954. The patent describes mechanisms to cut, convey, and collect sheets from a web press. One of several Tucker patents dealing with the problem of receiving sheets at high speed. This invention was patented in England in 1873. The application for the U.S. patent was filed in May 1874.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a platen printing press which was granted patent number 255704. The patent describes improvements to the inking and frisket arrangements on a platen press on which the bed is a flattened surface at the front of an ink distributing cylinder. Patentees Henry Trueman and John New were from Birmingham, England.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a hand inking roller which was granted patent number 20710. The patent describes an inking roller supported in a frame that allowed the roller's height to be adjusted against a set of bearing wheels.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a book-stitching machine which passed a needle lengthwise through the folded leaves of books; the invention was granted patent number 184989. Patentee James Crawford Smyth was one of David McConnel Smyth's family. The two worked together on a number of inventions.