Heating Stove Patent Model
date: label: Date made
content: 1875-10-19
label: patent date
content: 1875-10-19
name: label: inventor
content: Raveaud, Louis M. E.
label: inventor
content: Marty, Vincent
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model (U.S. Patent No. 168,992) of a heating stove with undulating front corners and shallow ovoid firebox with perforated grate that is connected to a stove pipe elbow; made by Louis M. E. Raveaud and Vincent Marty of New Orleans, LA, and patented on October 19, 1875. Soft-soldered seams. Draft opening with handled ash-damper below grate. No marks on object, but paper tags tied to smoke pipe with white and purple wove ribbons are printed and handwritten with patent information and object numbers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Louisiana, New Orleans
label: associated place
content: United States: Louisiana, New Orleans
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.251504
label: catalog number
content: 251504
label: patent number
content: 168,922
label: accession number
content: 48890
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stove, heating
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: copper (fireplace front and base material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (fireplace back, firebox material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (fireplace back, firebox material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (grate material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (ash-damper handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/4 in x 5 3/8 in x 3 1/2 in; 14.605 cm x 13.6525 cm x 8.89 cm