Jenks and Hart Injector, Patent Model
date: label: date made
content: 1886
label: patent date
content: 1886-05-25
name: label: inventor
content: Jenks, James
label: inventor
content: Hart, Thomas J.
notes: label: Description
content: This model was submitted to the U.S. Patent Office with the application for the patent issued to James Jenks and Thomas J. Hart, Detroit, Michigan.
label: Description
content: The principal feature of this injector is the method provided for varying the area of the water passage that surrounds the steam-forcing jet. A conical nut screwed onto threads on the outside of the steam tube forms one wall of the water space. The position of the nut on the tube and the area of the water space are changed by turning the nut. The nut is turned by a handwheel, worm, and worm wheel.
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: Michigan
label: associated place
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
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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.309182
label: catalog number
content: 309182
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 342,604
objectType: label: Object Name
content: injector, steam, model
label: Object Name
content: patent model, injector, steam
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall - from catalog card: 6 in x 6 1/2 in; 15.24 cm x 16.51 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 6 in x 6 3/8 in; 9.525 cm x 15.24 cm x 16.1925 cm