Patent Model - Improvement in the Construction of Coal-Scuttles
Maker and role
Joseph Scott, Patentee
John Scott, Patentee
William Miller, Patentee
Production date
Nov 19 1867
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Iron
Measurements
4 1/2 x 8 x 5 1/2" (11.4 x 20.3 x 14cm)
Description
Joseph and John Scott and William Miller explain in their patent that "the ordinary or old construction of coal-scuttle, which - and this is a point we desire should be noted - is made up of three parts, to wit, the body, bottom, and base or hoop, the iron requires to be hammered in order to get the bottom in; and as double seaming is resorted to, the metal is necessarily of a superior and expensive quality to stand, without bursting, breaking, or cracking, the bending or abrupt angular formations requisite to effect the same. One of our objects of our invention is to secure an equally serviceable junction of the body, bottom, and base without double seaming, or such angular bending of the metal...which economized construction." (Patent Number 71,226)
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Object number
2015.14.783
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