Heating Stove Patent Model
date: label: Date made
content: 1868-12-01
label: patent date
content: 1868-12-01
name: label: inventor
content: Culver, Stephen
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model (U.S. Patent No. 84,537) of a freestanding, oval cylindrical, base-burning stove on two short feet, made by Stephen Culver of Newark, NY, and patented on December 1, 1868. Tall upper section is topped by a pan or hopper for feeding the magazine and has slotted double doors at its base; short lower section is an ashpit with single slotted door having a sliding shutter. Between the two sections is a grate with divided or double axis handle for horizontal and rotary movement. Rectangular plate engraved with inventor's name, location and invention is attached on front. Tag stored with object is printed and handwritten with patent information.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Newark
label: associated place
content: United States: New York, Newark
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.251494
label: catalog number
content: 251494
label: patent number
content: 84,537
label: accession number
content: 48890
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stove, heating
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: copper (finial, nameplate, doors material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 5 1/4 in x 3 3/8 in; 24.13 cm x 13.335 cm x 8.5725 cm