This patent model demonstrates an invention for nippers for holding the paper on a platen jobbing press and then delivering it after printing; the invention was granted patent number 29554. Charles Wells and Henry Barth were owners of the Cincinnati Type Foundry, the company to which this patent was assigned. The patent represents improvements to the CTF Wells Jobber. Henry Barth was later famous for the Barth Type Caster.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for improvements to a type-distributing machine which was granted patent number 174915. The machine was invented by Charles W. Dickinson and was patented in 1872 and 1875. The rights were assigned to Samuel W. Green, who reassigned them to Edward N. Dickerson, trustee for Henry A. Burr. Burr, a hat manufacturer, was the proprietor of the Burr, later Empire, typesetter.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a flat-bed cylinder printing press; the invention was granted patent number 5819. The press featured an improved apparatus governing the motion of the bed on a flatbed cylinder press as well as the gripper fingers and the inking system.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a hand stamp which was granted patent number 45000. The stamp has a sliding bed covering an ink pad. One of the two hand levers pressed the type to the bed. The other pulled the bed back as the type was re-inked at the ink pad.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a pantographic apparatus which was granted patent number 8991. The pantographic apparatus is used for engraving multiple images precisely placed and at extreme reduction; also for the engraving of cylinders for calico printing, and for the decoration of wallpaper. The patentee was Isaac Taylor, from Stamford Rivers, England.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a machine that folds book cloth quickly and neatly over the boards; the invention was granted patent number 10961.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for an apparatus for cleaning and preserving ink rollers. Racks of rollers were lowered into a bath of oil, where the rollers were cleaned and protected until their next use. The invention was granted patent number 120043.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a rotary perfecting printing press which was granted patent number 162651. The press used a web of set-off paper that replaced the usual sheets. The web was used on one side and then the other, repeatedly, allowing the ink time to dry on each side before it was presented again.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for improvements in the action of gripper fingers on press cylinders; the invention was granted patent number 208359.
Nathan Babcock (1824-1902) set up a partnership in 1855 with Calvert B. Cottrell, initially manufacturing wool and cotton machinery, but he quickly turning to printing presses. He retired from the wool and cotton company in 1880, and established the Babcock Printing Press Manufactory in 1882. Model incomplete, all critical parts missing.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a hand-operated printing press which was granted patent number 32242. This press, the Chatauqua Jobber, was a self-inking bench-top press along the lines of the A. and B. Newbury Mountain Jobber of 1859 (Patent 24655).
This patent model demonstrates an invention for rubber plates in which a relief-printing plate of vulcanized rubber was molded directly from an intaglio--but right-reading--image etched into stone or metal. This invention was granted patent number 154230; the model consists of two mounted rubber plates.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a machine to smooth the sides of type; the invention was granted patent number 631. In the inventor's opinion, this foot-driven machine allowed the operator to rub around sixty thousand types in a day, in conditions of less "unhealthiness" than the usual. The model is missing its treadle.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a sheet-feed apparatus for cylinder presses; the invention was granted patent number 12401. Blasts of air were used to separate the top sheet of the pile and carry it to position on the press board.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a rotary press for printing on boards which was granted patent number 193528. The patent describes a press for printing on the flat boards for soap or candle boxes before folding, instead of the usual method of stenciling on the made-up boxes.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a book trimmer which was granted patent number 5523. The machine is for cutting the edges of books, and combines a sliding cutter with a turning and adjustable book holder and an adjustable table.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a sheet-separating apparatus which was granted patent number 9623. The machine was used to separate sheets and pass them to the press board by means of suction tubes, entirely replacing the human sheet feeder.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a typesetting machine which was granted patent number 108980. The patent details a keyboard typesetter with a "branching gravitation type-slide." Patentee De la Pena was an Argentinian living in New York City.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a flatbed printing press; the invention was granted patent number 173295. The patent describes improvements to the movement of the bed, the sheet fly, and the inking table of cylinder presses.
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a sheet-feed apparatus which was granted patent number 21591. The patent details a sheet-feeding apparatus, operating independent of the printing machine, with improved registration.
William Bullock (1813-1867) made himself a name in 1852 with a hand-cranked wooden press to which a self-feeder was attached. He followed this with other fast presses, focusing on the problems of feeding. This led him to his most famous press, the web perfecting press (Patent 38200). In 1867 Bullock was caught in a press he was installing for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, and died from the injuries.