Patent Model - Improvement in Paper-Tube Machines
Maker and role
John Jones (b.1820, d.1876), Patentee
Production date
Apr 20 1875
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Iron, brass
Measurements
12 x 6" (30.5 x 15.2cm)
Description
Jones' patent is for a machine that is capable of producing a paper barrel for dry and liquid purposes. He claims that he is enabled from his "long experience in the paper manufacture to make a paper barrel with great facility and expedition, and so cheaply as to furnish them at a much lower price than has ever been attained." (Patent Number 162,236)
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Object number
2015.14.1930a,b
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