Wash Boiler. Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Wash Boiler.

Creator

  • Inventor: Fountain, Henry Stephen
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Fountain, H.S., of Marlin, Texas.

Contributor

  • Witness: Cotten, J. B.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Johnson, W. M.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Witness: Ourand, F. L.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Witness for illustration
  • Witness: Stanton, Edward
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Witness for illustration
  • Printer: Norris Peters Co.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

  • Name: United States. Patent Office.
    Place of Publication: [Washington D.C.]

Date

  • Creation: 1886-10-05
  • Acceptance Date: 1886-10-05
  • Submission Date: 1886-05-17

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Patent for a new and improved laundry boiler. This design consists in "a partition at its lower end slightly above the bottom formed with a screw-threaded neck at its center, a perforated tube fitting with its lower end upon the neck and having its upper end closed, and a number of perforated triangular tubes upon the side of the boiler provided with stoppers at their upper ends and extending from the partition in the lower end of the boiler, and a rack consisting of rings connected at their upper edges by cross-pieces" (lines 76-86).
  • Physical Description: [2], : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventions
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Science and Technology
  • Keyword: boilers
  • Keyword: laundry

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Falls County - Marlin

Collection

  • Name: Texas Patents
    Code: TXPT

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Rights

  • Rights License: pd

Resource Type

  • Patent

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Patent Number: 350356
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth171362

Note

  • Display Note: "SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,356, dated October 5, 1886. Application filed May 17, 1886. Serial No. 202,373. (No model.)"
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