Patent Model - Improvement in Rotary Measuring-Faucets
Maker and role
John Baker (b.1833, d.1901), Patentee
William Harbster (b.1823, d.1885), Patentee
Enterprise Manufacturing Company, Assignee
Production date
Sep 03 1867
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Iron, wood
Measurements
11 x 7 x 6" (27.9 x 17.8 x 15.2cm)
Description
Baker and Harbster's patent consists of improvements made to patents which were "granted to Ira Kinman, May 13, 1859 and to John G. Baker, July 10, 1866. Careful experiments showed that faucets constructed according to those patents varied the quantities measured by them in proportion to the varying density of the fluid measured; that one of those faucets, so gauged as to measure an exact gallon of thick sirup by a given number of turns of the crank, would measure a much larger quantity of a thinner sirup with the same number of turns. This invention is intended more particularly to obviate this defect..." (Patent Number 68,546)
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Object number
2015.14.750a,b
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