Rexford Fire Grate, Patent Model
date: label: date made
content: 1883
label: patent date
content: 1883-08-14
name: label: inventor
content: Rexford, Philander
notes: label: Description
content: This model was submitted to the U.S. Patent Model with the application for the patent issued to Philander Rexford, of Syracuse, New York, August 14, 1883, no. 283144.
label: Description
content: The model represents a furnace grate made up of long grate bars, which are pivoted midway of their depth and have projecting from the upper part of one side of each bar a series of teeth or ribs. When in their normal positions the bars stand obliquely and the smooth solid back of one bar and the ribbed face of the next form the two sides of a trough across the grate. The solid portion is designed to support very fine coal, while the ribbed portion permits the passage of air for combustion.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: This description comes from the 1939 Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States Museum Bulletin 173 by Frank A. Taylor.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Syracuse
label: associated place
content: United States: New York, Syracuse
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanical and Civil Engineering
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content: Bulletin 173
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
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content: Work
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Frank A. Taylor. Catalog of the Mechanical Collections of the Division of Engineering United States National Museum, Bulletin 173
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MC.309218
label: catalog number
content: 309218
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 283,144
objectType: label: Object Name
content: grate, furnace, model
label: Object Name
content: patent model, furnace grate
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in x 8 in; 8.255 cm x 8.89 cm x 20.32 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall - from catalog card: 3 1/2 in x 7 in x 2 1/4 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm x 5.715 cm