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Object ID #

2009.001.010ab

Object Name

Punch, Paper

Title

Portland Multiple Punching Machine for a Bindery Area

Lexicon category

6: T&E For Communication

Date

1910 patent

Year Range from

1910

Year Range to

1920

Made

Southworth Machine Co.

Place of Origin

Portland, Maine, United States of America

Description

PORTLAND MULTIPLE PUNCHING MACHINE. This item of bindery equipment would be used to punch holes in paper, in the bindery area of a printing establishment.
A. Punching Machine
B. Detachable storage drawer with various metal punch pieces inside it. The machine has two smooth-finished wooden table surfaces. Placed horizontally is a round metal bar with an adjustable metal jogger. The lower table has two black-printed, 14-inch rulers at the back (one towards the left, one towards the right), which would help guide the operator as he punched holes. The machine is operated by a foot treadle at the front. It has seventeen wooden dividers inside it. It is intended to store the punching machine's various paper drills. These vary in size, but have a somewhat cylindrical shape, rods, spiral grooving, and knurled areas. The following items are visible:
-376 drill/die
-375 drill/die
-406 drill/die
-408 drill/die
-19 (?) drill/die
-8 drill/dye
-one that has its number obscured beneath grime
-one that has perhaps three digits, with first one being an 8
-250 drill/die
-187 drill/die
-126 drill/die
-218 drill/die
-125 drill/die
-drill/die with 125 (or 195?) impressed in it.
-several metal pieces

Makers mark

Brass manufacturer's label:
"PORTLAND / MULTIPLE / PUNCHING MACHINE / MADE BY / SOUTHWORTH MACHINERY CO. / PORTLAND, MAINE, U.S.A. / PATENTED NOV. 19, 1907 AND JUNE 14, 1910"

Provenance

Manufactured by the Southworth Machine Company, in Portland, Maine. Patented in 1910. Belonged to the Richardson, Bond & Wright printing company in Owen Sound, Grey County. This business was often referred to as "R-B-W", or "RBW". In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Nels Maher (a local, professional printer) and Wayne Landen (Museum Director) worked towards building a collection of vintage printing equipment, in order to someday build a period print shop at the County of Grey-Owen Sound Museum.

Collection

Printing & Bindery Equipment, 20th-c Collection

Material

Cast iron/Metal/Wood/Paint/Black ink

Dimensions

H-119 W-76.5 L-66 cm

Found

Owen Sound, Grey County

Search Terms

RBW
Richardson, Bond & Wright (see RBW)