US Patent: 194,902
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| Improvement in rotary printing-presses
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Patentee:
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| Martial Hainque (exact or similar names) - San Francisco, CA |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
May 21, 1877 |
| Granted: |
Sep. 04, 1877 |
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YouTube video showing a Tait & Hainque printing press in Georgetown, BC
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Description: |
| "The object of my intention is to provide a machine for printing or branding the covers or other parts of wooden boxes, which shall do automatically what has heretofore been done by hand."A rusted hulk of a machine is seen, labeled "PATENTED SEPT 4, 1877 / TAIT & HAINQUE / 115 & 117 / BEALE ST. / S. F." The 1877 D. M. Bishop & Co.'s Directory of the City and County of San Francisco, page 216, lists "Tait & Hainque (A. J. Tait and Martial Hainque) proprs Cyclops Engine and machine Wks, 113-115 Beale".The 1884 "The Industries of San Francisco", by Frederick H. Hackett. "Cyclops Engine Machine Works. / Tait & Hainque, Proprietors, 115 and 117 Beale. / The Cyclops Machine Works, located at Nos. 115 and 117 Beale Street, were established ten years ago by its present proprietors, A. J. Tait, and Martial Hainque. The works are located in a three-story brick building, with a frontage of thirty-seven and a half feet. In addition to the manufacture and repair of all kinds of machinery, the firm is the sold manufacturer of the patent wood-branding and printing press." In later years, into the early 1900s, the Cyclops Machine Works other mainstay business was in building ammonia-based refrigeration systems. |
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