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Patent Model of a Bookbinder's Sewing Table
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This patent model demonstrates an invention for a bookbinders' sewing table that was vertically adjustable, so the sheets could be lowered to a convenient height for the sewer as the pile grew. This avoided the usual practice of “putting blocks or boxes of increasing thickness in the operator's chair." The invention was granted patent number 59240.
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Credit linePatent Model of a Bookbinder's Sewing Table. ca 1866. Lincoln, Marshall T.. National Museum of American History. CC0.
