Patent Model - Improvement in Dinner-Pots
Maker and role
Abraham Wolf (b.1844, d.1921), Patentee
Production date
Mar 19 1872
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Iron, wood
Measurements
7 7/16 x 11" (18.8 x 27.9cm)
Description
Wolf's patent "consists in proving a new article of manufacture - viz., a dinner-pot with a lug cast on the side of the pot, said lug consisting of a half disk, with a quarter disk arranged on the half disk midway between the ends of chord and are of the disk, as shown in the accompanying drawing, whereby strength is obtained for the lug with little stock, and economy of room, said lug being provided with an opening for a detachable handle." Wolf says that the advantage of a dinner-pot with a lug and detachable handle "will be apparent to every good housewife..." (Patent Number 124,775)
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Object number
2015.14.1415a,b
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