Portable Oven Patent Model
date: label: Date made
content: 1862-03-18
label: patent date
content: 1862-03-18
name: label: inventor
content: Ayers, George W.
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model (U.S. Patent No. 34,726) of a portable bake oven, made by George W. Ayres of Rahway, NJ, and patented on March 18, 1862. Consists of a double-shelled, round-arched body with door at one end on a flat, hollow base containing two furnaces or fireboxes with perforated sides, one running the width of each end, and a diagonal reflector between them. The inner shell is a flue surrounding the oven with two chimneys of smoke pipes. The outer shell is an insulating cavity to be filled with sand; openings for filling and emptying its contents are at the middle of each side. No marks on object, but paper tags tied with red wove ribbon to one smoke pipe and stored with object are printed and handwritten with patent information and object numbers.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Rahway
label: associated place
content: United States: New Jersey, Rahway
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.251517
label: accession number
content: 48890
label: patent number
content: 34726
label: catalog number
content: 251517
objectType: label: Object Name
content: oven, model
label: Object Name
content: oven, bake, portable
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 7/8 in x 7 1/4 in x 11 3/4 in; 22.5425 cm x 18.415 cm x 29.845 cm