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Patent Model of a Bookbinders' Finishing Roll
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This patent model demonstrates an invention for a bookbinding roll which was granted patent number 156678. The patent details a bookbinding roll, on which the design was cast on a strip "secured to the roller after the fashion of a tire to a wheel." The strip was usually of bronze, and was bent to fit around the wheel. A projection on the back of the strip fit into a groove in the wheel.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit linePatent Model of a Bookbinders' Finishing Roll. ca 1874. Skelton, Daniel J.. National Museum of American History. CC0.
