Is This a Printing Press?

Laura D
on 25 Jun 14 (14:49)

My father was a lithographer all of his life and I found this pictures (among similar other ones). I don’t even know if it is a printing press (if so the paper is small). Could anyone help me to identify what this is?

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Foolproof546
on 25 Jun 14 (18:23)

I see lots of cylinders and paper winding through the machine, but I don’t see any inking mechanisms anywhere so I would be surprised if this is a printing press.

Rick

typenut
on 25 Jun 14 (18:37)

That is a rare machine, it’s a miniture paper machine, makes a roll of paper and was made as an exhibiton model.

Mick on Monotype
on 25 Jun 14 (18:48)

Updated 25 Jun 14 (18:53)

Early Address-o-graph Machine, web fed, (possibly) ,& is that Compressed air? a few inches from the operators left hand? is his foot, pointing at combined Pressure/Vacuum pump. Why so many heads…..
Silly suggestions,! Apologies.

nagraph
on 25 Jun 14 (19:11)

Paper making machine, often used in teaching situations at the college level and sometimes by the paper companies to experiment. These show up in older Inalnd Printers from the 1930s/40s and there were several of these made.

fritz

AdLibPress
on 25 Jun 14 (19:15)

When I was a student at Miami University in the late 60s the paper technology program had one of these. I even got some paper from it and printed a piece on it.

Bob