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Illustrated catalogue and price list of John Thomson Press Company's platen presses : for letterpress and color printing, embossing, bookcover stamping and paper-box cutting and scoring (1896)

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of the platen. It is not, therefore, hable to wear fiat. Moreover, this leaves the platen perfectly free to slide to the impression without the slightest restraint. Take two types betwixt finger and thumb, slide them back and forth, and this will exactly represent the impres- sion action here… … face of the adjuster bar; hence but little strain is imposed upon the bolts, these simply acting to hold the parts together. The adjuster slide is the part to which the adjuster bar and the eccentric sleeves are locked. It is adapted to positively engage a series of teeth milled in the central…

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