Heating Stove Patent Model
date: label: Date made
content: 1870-03-29
label: patent date
content: 1870-03-29
name: label: inventor
content: Sexton, Samuel B.
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model (U.S. Patent No. 101,385) of a cylindrical base-burning fireplace stove or heater with square face plate that fills the fireplace opening and radiating flues that form a separate semicircular back, made by Samuel B. Sexton of Baltimore, MD, and patented on March 29, 1870. Stove features a domed cover with oval chute to the magazine, an ornamental collar and large circular air inlet openings in front of firebox. No marks on object, but darkened paper patent tags tied with purple wove ribbon and white string are printed and handwritten with patent information and object numbers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
label: associated place
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.251505
label: catalog number
content: 251505
label: patent number
content: 101,385
label: accession number
content: 48890
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stove, heating
label: Object Name
content: fireplace heater
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: copper (ornamental collar material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 5 in x 3 3/4 in; 11.43 cm x 12.7 cm x 9.525 cm