Railway Cooking Stove Patent Model
date: label: Date made
content: 1844-07-11
label: patent date
content: 1844-07-11
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model (U.S. Patent No. 3,656) of a railway cooking stove made by John B. Chollar and Homer Parmelee of West Troy, NY (now Watervliet) and patented on July 11, 1844; painted black with inventors' names, location and date in gold on oven front and back. Consists of an elevated stationary oven on arched legs that connect to a triangular frame with three rollers that carry a movable stove. Removable grate and center section of stove top. Loose, small diamond- or lozenge-shape cover of unknown purpose. Oven and legs are broken apart. Pieces of two darkened paper tags tied to oven with red or purple wove ribbon are printed and handwritten with patent information and object numbers.
label: Description
content: Chollar and Parmelee's patent is not for the entire stove but just the "new and useful improvements in cooking-stoves applicable to the stove known as Isaac B. Bucklins patent railway cooking-stove and other stoves of similar construction." (Isaac B. Bucklin, also of West Troy, received U.S. Patent No. 825 for his railway cooking stove on July 9, 1838; reissued August 27, 1840.)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Watervliet
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.251448
label: catalog number
content: 251448
label: accession number
content: 48890
label: patent number
content: 3656
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stove, cooking, railway
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (finish material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 55 5/8 in x 4 3/4 in x 7 1/2 in; 141.2875 cm x 12.065 cm x 19.05 cm