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Patent Model of a Bookbinders' Standing Press
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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.
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Credit linePatent Model of a Bookbinders' Standing Press. ca 1860. Pelletreau, Maltby K.. National Museum of American History. CC0.
