Patent Model - Improvement in Stove Pipe Thimbles
Maker and role
Cephas Buttles (b.1829, d.1881), Patentee
Production date
Oct 03 1871
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Tinned sheet iron
Measurements
2 x 9 1/2" (5.1 x 24.1cm)
Description
Buttles received a previous patent in 1869 for a stove-pipe thimble "in which the bearings of the inner band were brought nearer together than those of the outer one in order to prevent waste in cutting the tin. [Buttles] subsequently invented an improvement upon said thimble which consists in strengthening the upper head by radial ribs cast on its under side..." (Patent Number 119,571)
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Object number
2015.14.1364a,b
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