Ruling machine
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- OBJECT TYPE
- HAND STRIKER/SINGLE BEAM
- DATE
- 1855–1860
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1979.0410.001
- MANUFACTURER
- HICKOK, W.O. MFG. CO.
- MODEL
- HAND STRIKER
- LOCATION
- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 236
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 2
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- FRAME- WOOD (CHERRY)/ MOST METAL MECHANICS- BRASS (IE. HANDLE, GEARS, BEARINGS)/ PENS- STEEL (ORIGINALLY PENS WERE MADE OF BRASS)/ BOLTS- IRON
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 304.8 cm
- Width
- 129.5 cm
- Height
- 216.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Bookbinding
- Category
- Ruling
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- HICKOK
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Pennsylvania
- City
- Harrisburg
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- CA. 1860-1978
- Canada
-
TYPICAL OFEARLY STYLE RULING MACHINE USED IN CANADA AND SPECIFICALLY BY A GUELPH BINDERY FROM THE 1850'S UNTIL 1978. - Function
-
FOR THE RULING OF LINES ON BLANK PAPER (LEDGERS, SCHOOL BOOKS ETC.) - Technical
-
A VERY EARLY STYLE OF RULING MACHINE (CA. 1852) 'THE MACHINE STILL HAS TO BE OPERATED BY HAND & IT WAS STILL NECESSARY TO STOP & START IT IN ORDER TO "SET" THE PEN AT ANY GIVEN POINT ON THE PAPER, BUT INSTEAD OF A SINGLE CLOTH CONVEYOR, IT WAS EQUIPPED WITH TWO CLOTHS..., WHICH PERMITTED THE RULED SHEETS TO DRY AS THEY PASSED THROUGH THE MACHINE & TO BE LAYED AUTOMATICALLY AT THE END IN A RECEIVING BOX, THUS, ELIMINATING THE SERVICES OF THE "LAY-BOY" (REF.1,PG.5). - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- N/A
- Missing
- REQUIRES NEW APRONS; WOODEN PIVOT ON WHICH STRIKER RESTS WAS CRACKED IN TRANSIT; MACHINE APPEARS COMPLETE
- Finish
- Unknown
- Decoration
- N/A
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HICKOK, W.O. MFG. CO., Ruling machine, circa 1855–1860, Artifact no. 1979.0410, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/1979.0410.001/
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