CC0 · no rights reserved
Patent Model of aType-Cutting Machine
From the collection of National Museum of American History. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a type-cutting machine which was granted patent number 31333. The patent details a machine for sawing type from a solid block of letters by first cutting a strip of letters from the block, then notching the strip, and finally cutting apart the letters. The block could be cast by Smith's patent of 1859.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit linePatent Model of aType-Cutting Machine. ca 1861. Smith, John J. C.. National Museum of American History. CC0.
