Cooking Stove Patent Model
Cooking Stove Patent Model
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- Description
- Patent model (U.S. Patent No. 3,640) of a cooking stove made by Henry W. Camp of Owego, NY and patented on June 24, 1844; finish resembles wood. Features two ovens, one along bottom and the other above it at one side; top plate of stove has four circular holes for cooking vessels, two above the upper oven and two above the firebox. Missing second firebox with grate that slides under hearth at one end. Several oven doors and all four legs gone. Engraved with the inventor's name and location at end with oval smoke pipe hole. Darkened paper tag with purple wove ribbon is printed and handwritten with patent information and object numbers.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- stove, cooking
- Date made
- 1844-06-24
- patent date
- 1844-06-24
- inventor
- Camp, Henry W.
- place made
- United States: New York, Owego
- associated place
- United States: New York, Oswego
- Physical Description
- metal, sheet (overall material)
- copper (latches, oven bottom material)
- tinned sheet iron (firebox and oven linings material)
- tin (firebox and oven linings material)
- paint (exterior finish material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 in x 6 1/8 in x 4 1/8 in; 7.62 cm x 15.5575 cm x 10.4775 cm
- ID Number
- DL.251450
- catalog number
- 251450
- patent number
- 3,640
- accession number
- 48890
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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