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Patent Model of a Platen Printing Press
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This patent model demonstrates an invention for a platen jobbing press with stationary vertical type bed below a flat ink distributing surface in the same plane as the type. The lower part of the ink table shifted sideways, for better distribution. The invention was granted patent number 86064.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit linePatent Model of a Platen Printing Press. ca 1869. Forbush, Walter H.. National Museum of American History. CC0.
