21H.343J | Spring 2016 | Undergraduate

Making Books: The Renaissance and Today

Image Gallery I - Making the Beaver Press

Image 3 - Top view diagram of the Beaver Press

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A top view diagram of Beaver Press.

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Image 3 - Top view diagram of the Beaver Press
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A line drawing showing the top view of a printing press with words identifying specific parts.
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Spindle - The screw to which the bar of the press is affixed, and which produces the pressure on the platen.

Head - That part of a wooden press in which the nut of the spindle is fixed.

Nut

Credit:
Image by Ken Stone, MIT Hobby Shop.
A line drawing showing the top view of a printing press with words identifying specific parts.

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