Allen Automatic Injector, Patent Model
date: label: date made
content: 1902
label: patent date
content: 1902-04-15
name: label: inventor
content: Allen, Charles B.
notes: label: Description
content: This model was submitted to the U.S. Patent Office with the application for the patent issued to Charles B. Allen, of Wadsworth, Ohio, April 15, 1902, no. 697770.
label: Description
content: This injector is designed to start itself automatically when supplied with steam and connected to the water supply and to restart automatically if for any reason the jet should be temporarily interrupted. The peculiar feature of the injector is the forcing tube, which is provided with two successive overflows formed in it by a series of laterally opening holes which have a definite areal relation to the smallest cross-sectional area of the combining tube and which are in addition to the usual large overflow between the combining tube and the forcing tube.
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: Ohio, Wadsworth
label: associated place
content: United States: Ohio, Wadsworth
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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.309176
label: catalog number
content: 309176
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 697,770
objectType: label: Object Name
content: injector, steam, automatic, model
label: Object Name
content: patent model, injector, automatic
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in; 10.795 cm x 16.51 cm x 5.715 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall - from catalog card: 4 5/8 in x 6 1/2 in; x 11.7475 cm x 16.51 cm