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Patent Model for a Double-Ended Press

This patent model demonstrates an invention for a double-ended press; it was granted patent number 2793. The invention included a method of bringing two alternating beds into printing position. The patent could be applied either to a bed-and-platen press or to another cylinder press.

c. 1842

GA.89797.002793

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