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Patent Model of a Press for Card and Ticket Printing
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This patent model demonstrates an invention for a card and ticket press which was granted patent number 48493. The patent details a self-inking press in which a series of flattened surfaces on a large rotating drum provided multiple platens. The type was suspended face down and lowered against the drum. Paper could be fed from a roll, or placed on the flat surfaces, a card at a time, as each platen approached the type. There was also a numbering device.
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Credit linePatent Model of a Press for Card and Ticket Printing. 1865. Sangster, James. National Museum of American History. CC0.