Object Details
- patentee
- Lefferts, Marshall C.
- Description (Brief)
- This patent model demonstrates an invention for printing and decorating the surface of celluloid. A celluloid sheet was printed, and then heated under pressure against a polished sheet to finish the surface. The invention was granted patent number 346376. Model consists of two photogravure specimens.
- The patent rights were assigned to the Celluloid Manufacturing Company, New York. Marshall Clifford Lefferts (born 1848) first worked with the American Telegraph Company. In 1870 he joined with the new Celluloid Manufacturing Company, of which he became president in 1890.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ca 1886
- patent date
- 1886-07-27
- ID Number
- GA.89797.346376
- accession number
- 089797
- patent number
- 346376
- catalog number
- GA*89797.346376
- Object Name
- process, celluloid printing
- specimen, paper
- decorating surface of celluloid
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- Physical Description
- celluloid (overall material)
- Measurements
- part: photograph: 20 cm x 14.9 cm x .1 cm; 7 7/8 in x 5 7/8 in x 1/16 in
- part: celluloid card: 12.3 cm x 7.8 cm x .1 cm; 4 13/16 in x 3 1/16 in x 1/16 in
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Patent Models, Graphic Arts
- Work
- Communications
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Patent Models
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_998933
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-b378-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
