Foot Warmer for Vehicles Patent Model
date: label: patent date
content: 1876-12-12
name: label: inventor
content: Buckland, Henry P.
notes: label: Description
content: Full-size patent model (U.S. Patent No. 185,290) of a foot warmer or stove for vehicles, made by Harold P. Buckland of Stony Ridge, Wood County, OH, and patented on December 12, 1876; painted green. Watertight, hollow body has a recess for placing one's feet and is fitted with an interior triangular chamber, accessed by the hinged doors on both sides, for holding one or more lamps to heat the water. Top has a screw-cap opening for the water and a hole for the smoke escape. Horizontal flanges at sides of top and bottom allow attaching it to the frame of a buggy, sleigh, or wagon. Top back edge has printed letters cut and pasted into the patentee's name "HENRY PETER BUCKLAND".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Stony Ridge
label: associated place
content: United States: Ohio, Stony Ridge
setName: label: See more items in
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.251767
label: catalog number
content: 251767
label: patent number
content: 185,290
label: accession number
content: 48890
objectType: label: Object Name
content: warmer, foot
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 7/8 in x 11 in x 6 3/4 in; 17.4625 cm x 27.94 cm x 17.145 cm