Patent Model for a Chromolithographic Press

ID: 2213 ~ Source: National Museum of American History ~ Creator: August Hoen ~ Date: c. 1869
This file appears in: A. Hoen & Company Lithography Plant

August Hoen made this patent model to demonstrate his design for a chromolithographic press. The patent details a flatbed scraper machine with automatic inking, damping, feeding, and delivery. It printed at the rate of 300 impressions per hour, with the precise registration necessary for multi-color printing.

This file appears in: A. Hoen & Company Lithography Plant

By Sierra Hallmen
In October 1835, Eleanora Weber, her son, Edward Weber, and her nephew, Augustus Hoen, carried pieces of lithographic machinery, lithographic stones, and ink powders from Coblenz, Germany, to America.…