Foot Warmer Patent Model
date: label: patent date
content: 1862-07-22
name: label: inventor
content: Hunt, Solomon
notes: label: Description
content: Full-size patent model (U.S. Patent No. 35,936) of a foot warmer or stove, made by Solomon Hunt of Danville, IN, and patented on July 22, 1862. Consists of a wooden box with a black-curtained, angled front opening enclosing a slanted, slotted platform with copper plate underneath on which to place one's feet; the opening at bottom back holds a sliding alcohol-burning lamp with loop strap handle. Top has a bail handle at front and rectangular brass plaque at back marked "Solomon Hunt / Danville, Ind". Two small brass-lined ventilation holes at sides. Black plain-weave curtain with a pink, blue and yellow, machine-stitched border is tacked in place.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, Danville
label: associated place
content: United States: Illinois, Danville
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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.251427
label: catalog number
content: 251427
label: patent number
content: 35,936
label: accession number
content: 48890
objectType: label: Object Name
content: warmer, foot
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: mahogany (box material)
label: Physical Description
content: copper (radiator plate material)
label: Physical Description
content: cloth (curtain material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (ventilation holes material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, white (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 9 in x 11 1/8 in; 19.05 cm x 22.86 cm x 28.2575 cm