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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)

John Thomson Press Company · New York City : J. Thomson Press Co. · leaf 21

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The movement of the form-inking carriage has been the sub- ject of prolonged study and careful demonstration, whereby to effect such a design and disposal of the mechanism as to insure durability as well as perfect smoothness of action at any rate of speed possible to feed the press. Suffice it to… … larger diameter; that the "throw" of the cam has been materially reduced; and that the strain lines of the action as a whole have been put into mechanical harmony. We are prepared to guarantee the durability of this action. The slots in the carriage-ways are adapted to receive sliding journal boxes…

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