Patent Model - Improvement in Spark-Arresters
Maker and role
Meinrad Rumely, Patentee
Production date
Aug 19 1879
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Iron
Measurements
8 x 7 3/4" (20.3 x 19.7cm)
Description
Rumely's patent consists "of a vertical screen-cylinder at the mouth of the stack, through or under the sides of which the products of combustion must escape, a closed top, hollow deflector of imperforate metal acting as a bottom to said cylinder, and a second screen cylinder depending from said deflector with its open bottom of such diameter as to catch the greater part of the sparks and direct them to the interior of the deflector..." (Patent Number 218,643)
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Object number
2015.14.2966a-c
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