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2. Ludlow Typograph - Wikipedia

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   Ludlow metal typesetting machine in Gutenberg Museum in Fribourg, Switzerland. A Ludlow Typograph is a hot metal typesetting system used in letterpress printing. The device casts bars, or slugs of type, out of type metal primarily consisting of lead. These slugs are used for the actual printing, and then are melted down and recycled on the spot.

3. Stamping (metalworking) - Wikipedia

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   Stamping (also known as pressing) is the process of placing flat sheet metal in either blank or coil form into a stamping press where a tool and die surface forms the metal into a net shape. Stamping includes a variety of sheet-metal forming manufacturing processes, such as punching using a machine press or stamping press , blanking, embossing ...

4. Automatic center punch - Wikipedia

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   Letter stamp sets; Glass-breaking tools used in rescue work and a common tool for a car thief. Impact tool for hardness testing [21] Pin presses for electronic assembly [22] [23] In many applications, such as hardness testing, the mechanism does not have an adjustment for impulse strength, and may require periodic calibration checks.

5. Punchcutting - Wikipedia

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   The small letters at the base of the matrix are founders marks. Punchcutting is a craft used in traditional typography to cut letter punches in steel as the first stage of making metal type. [1] Steel punches in the shape of the letter would be used to stamp matrices into copper, which were locked into a mould shape to cast type.

6. Addressograph - Wikipedia

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   An Addressograph system of the 1960s was essentially a Graphotype debossing machine for preparing address plates, a cassette-style plate feeder, a heavy-duty, rapidly moving inked ribbon, a platten for hand-feeding the mail piece, and a foot pedal for stamping the address. The individual steel address plates were inserted into card-sized frames ...

7. Punch (tool) - Wikipedia

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   Australian karat stamps for gold (375) and platinum (950). Specially-made stamps used to strike hallmarks for metal, maker, manufacturing date (also known as date letter), city (or county), fineness , or assay office , to certify the content of noble metals —such as platinum , gold , silver .