Patent Model - Improvement in Towel-Driers
Maker and role
Selim Grout, Patentee
Production date
Mar 16 1869
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Wood, steel, brass
Measurements
1 3/8 x 5 1/2 x 4 1/2" (3.5 x 14 x 11.4cm)
Description
Grout explains that his apparatus "is to be applied to the upright part of a stove-funnel, and over a stove, it being for the purpose of supporting towels, clothes, or other articles for being dried or heated by the heat radiated from such funnel or stove." (Patent Number 87,843)
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Object number
2015.14.978a,b
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