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[Goldthwaite Eagle Printing Office]

Description: Photograph of a printing office in Goldthwaite with several type setting stations visible throughout the space and a large printing press in the center of the room. Three men stand in the back of the room, the one on the left wearing a dark waistcoat and light colored shirt and the two on the right wearing hats and aprons over their attire. A typed note is adhered to the bottom edge of the photo card that reads, "Goldthwaite Eagle about 1910. R. M. Thompson & printers. Notice no electric lights… more
Date: 1910~
Partner: Jennie Trent Dew Library

Line-Type-Casting Machine.

Description: Patent for new and useful Improvements in Line-Type-Casting Machines, including illustrations and instructions. This invention relates to the casting of "lines of type on slugs or bars formed in molds from metal supplied by a melting pot" (lines 11-13) for linotype machines and provides "novel and efficient means for holding the used or worn out slugs in position to be fed to a melting pot, improved devices for automatically feeding one or more slugs to the pot as often as necessary, and novel… more
Date: September 4, 1917
Creator: Wilmans, Lloyd I.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Protector for Paper-Rolls.

Description: Patent for adjustable paper roll protector that prevents rolls of paper (such as what is used for newspaper printing) from becoming damaged during shipping and/or handling to prevent waste. Includes illustrations.
Date: May 28, 1918
Creator: Staley, William O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Printing-Press Gripper.

Description: Patent for a device to grip paper being carried between the type bed, rotary platen, and delivery belts of a printing press.
Date: October 30, 1917
Creator: Sadovsky, Nathan
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Printing by Lithography

Description: Patent for improvements in lithography printing that further help reproduce worn or difficult engravings, as well as transfer and make impressions into engravings with slight loss of effect, while also providing a means in which the engraving or stone can be prepared expeditiously and inexpensively. (lines 10-25)
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Ray, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Perforator.

Description: Patent for an improved perforator that attaches to a multigraph and perforates sheets of paper that pass through the multigraph so the sheets can be separated into parts, with illustrations.
Date: May 8, 1917
Creator: Hahl, Harold D. & Lambert, James J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Photographic-Printing Apparatus.

Description: Patent for photographic printing apparatus for printing photographs from film or plate which aims to improve on previous models by making "the printing operation easy and efficient" (lines 20-21) including illustrations.
Date: June 13, 1916
Creator: Welsh, Monte
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Feeding Mechanism For Printing Press

Description: Patent for "an improved mechanism whereby the paper or other material is automatically fed to the press in web or continuous form and automatically cut off in the desired lengths as it passes from the feeding mechanism" (lines 23-26).
Date: June 2, 1914
Creator: Prescott, Sitwell
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Device for Printing Blue-Prints

Description: Patent for a new type of printing press for the printing of large blue-prints. It is to be a more effective method of printing large objects with a curved plate to provide a more continuous and effective result.
Date: May 13, 1919
Creator: Cooper, Christopher Columbus
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Beveled-Rule-Molding Device

Description: Patent for improvements in matrices and devices which are similar to matrices that are used in linotype and intertype or line casting machines. These devices consist of a rule molding mechanism with a bar having the general contour of a matrix. A channel exists in one side with under cut edges. These objects can be operated by matrix molding devices for forming rules for printing purposes.
Date: May 12, 1914
Creator: Markwell, Andrew E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Stop Device for Printing-Presses.

Description: Patent for improvements to safety devices (springs, belt shift levers, guide members, rock shafts) that can be attached to a printing press to create automatic stops. These safety devices can be used to address possible accidents or emergencies by fastening down on a specific section of a printing press.
Date: March 2, 1915
Creator: Brown, John Walter R. & Otey, George S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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