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Patent Model for Platen Printing Press
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This patent model demonstrates an invention for a platen printing press, which was granted patent number 40099. In this invention, one of a series on Gordon's platen presses, the platen was pivoted on long legs. The bed, rocking on its own axis, was locked into vertical position to take the impact of impression. The model is incomplete: the platen assembly is missing.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit linePatent Model for Platen Printing Press. ca 1863. Gordon, George Phineas. National Museum of American History. CC0.
