Frick Feed-Water Apparatus, Patent Model
date: label: date made
content: 1858
label: patent date
content: 1858-12-14
name: label: inventor
content: Frick, Jacob
notes: label: Description
content: This model was submitted to the U.S. Patent Office with the application for the patent issued to Jacob Frick, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 14, 1858, no. 22284. It is an improvement on the patent issued to Frick, March 18, 1856, no. 14449.
label: Description
content: The model represents a combination of an air chamber, a safety valve, feed-water and blow-off cocks, a feed-water failure alarm, and a water jet just for extinguishing fires, all arranged in one instrument so that all can be secured to the boiler by one attachment only, thereby avoiding the necessity of piercing and “wounding” the boiler in several places.
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: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: associated place
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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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: ER.308661
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: catalog number
content: 308661
label: patent number
content: 22,284
objectType: label: Object Name
content: feed water & blow-off apparatus, patent model
label: Object Name
content: feed water & blow-off apparatus, model
label: Object Name
content: patent model, boiler blow off, steam
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 12 7/8 in x 8 1/2 in; 6.35 cm x 32.7025 cm x 21.59 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall-from catalog card: 14 in; 35.56 cm