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Thursday, March 25, 2021

The New York Capital District, Part 4: Stove Patents 1848-1852

[Link back to Part 3]

Because there were SO MANY patents, particularly Design patents, in this next five-year period, I'm going to experiment with a different way of doing these posts -- basically, including fewer illustrations (maybe just one for every ten patents?).  There are just too many, and they take time to load and lots of space.  What I have done instead is to set up a dedicated Flickr album for ALL of the New York Capital District patents I have copied, and suggest that anybody reading this opens it in another window or tab while looking here, so that you can swap easily from reading the text to seeing the image.  If you're smart you can probably even have the windows side-by-side.  

I have also edited patent titles to add information from the patent itself (about the type of stove, particularly when the official patent title is just "Stove", and even the stove name, when that's provided), doing this within square brackets [...] to make it clear what's extra. 

What I have not done, yet, is to continue giving information, biographical and otherwise, about patentees, assignees, and even some witnesses.  There are just too many, and I am planning to handle this differently in future.  When I have finished (whenever that may be, and whatever "finished" might look like), I will probably do a wrap-up post which draws together the key names -- the most active patentees, assignees, and even witnesses (which will identify the key patent agents and other professionals servicing the Capital District stove industry by mid-century) -- and provides mini-biographies and information about individuals' and companies' contributions. 


1848: 6 Improvement Patents, 18 Designs

No. 5459
Hillson, Robert
Albany
Hot-Air furnace
February 29, 1848
Witnesses: Learned, William L. & Viell, Rufus K.


A large, mostly brick-built installation [Flickr pic].  Its main benefit or innovation was supposed to be creating a draught enabling the heating of rooms at the same level as the furnace, by supplying an air feed to the furnace from the room itself.  It also used sand-insulated double air pipes, to reduce fire risk when passing through partitions etc. as well as increasing efficiency.


No. 5478
Granger, Rensselaer D.
Albany
[Premium] Cooking Stove
March 21, 1848
Witnesses: Greenough, William & Fitzgerald, W.P.N.

"My improvements are chiefly applicable to that description of stove well known among makers and dealers as the 'Premium Stove,' [Flickr pic] in which a single oven is situated immediately in rear of the fire chamber, there being direct flues the full breadth of the stove opening into the fire chamber both above and below the oven, the former communicating directly with the smoke pipe, and the latter connecting with a vertical flue at the back of the stove, which passes up to the smoke pipe. One of the principal objections to the Premium stove has been that when the oven is in use, the principal part of the heat traveled in a direct line and in one body to the smoke pipe, passing through the center of the flue beneath the oven; by which means while the middle portion of this latter is unduly heated and the plates burned out, the sides are left comparatively cool; and this latter difficulty is aggravated by the effects of the increased radiation from these portions owing to their greater exposure to the external air." 

Granger's remedies for these problems were baffles in flues, and a hollow iron cavity behind the oven, with air holes at either side, and additional flues behind the oven, to prevent burning out the plates and for heat equalisation within the oven.  He supplied detailed construction information.


No. 5502
Geer, Gilbert
Troy
Cooking Stove
April 11, 1848
Witnesses: Browne, A.P. & Greenough, J.J.

A 4-boiler stove with two more in the front hearth "Summer Arrangement" [Flickr pic] -- clearly a standard feature by then, "connected with the stove in the usual way..."  Nice floral patterns on the doors.  Smoke pipe at front, i.e. this is a large-oven stove like Davy's ##, bypassing the Buck patent, but at a cost in terms of convenience?  Geer's main claim was "the manner of connecting the summer arrangement with the stove so that the draft thereform can be readily turned either into the fire chamber and thence follow the flue around the oven or into the exit pipe direct without imparting heat to any part of the stove, the dampers being so arranged as to revolve and cover either of the openings at pleasure." 


No. 5954
Bleecker, William E. & Vose, Samuel D.
Albany
[Cook] Stove-Flue
December 5, 1848
Witnesses: Camp, Harry & Mayfield, Isaac

The drawing is titled "Cooking Stove" but only contains images of flues -- the three flues beneath the oven bottom, i.e. a Hathaway, Hermance, or Buck-type stove.  Their objectives were the usual -- "equal distribution of heat; increase of draft; and protection of the flue space from cold air" via a gradual increase in flue size from inlet to exit (i.e. as in the Filley "Charter Oak," ##, see next post), and locating the return flue beneath the oven flues rather than either side of it.  This layout, like many other innovations in stove flue design, was based on experience and observation rather than a very scientific theory of heat or gas flow.


No. 5967
Buck, Darius
Albany
Cooking Stove
December 12, 1848
Witnesses: Keller, Charles M. & Meynig, G.

Buck's last invention (he died in 1849) was a double oven stove [Flickr pic] rather like his rivals Hathaway and Hermance:

 "The nature of my improvements consist, first, in the arrangement of the two ovens, one (that is, the main one) at the back of the fire place, and extending, if desired, partly under it, and the other in front of the main one extending under the open hearth, when this is combined with an arrangement of flues by which the draft is caused to pass over the main oven, down two side, flues at the back, along two side flues at the bottom, then uniting in a single flue under the front oven, up in front thereof over the top and between it and the open hearth, then down a diving flue between the two ovens to a return flue under the main oven and between the two side flues, arid thence up through a middle flue at the back to the chimney-the said central return flue at the bottom of the main oven being provided with a sliding damper which when open permits the draft after passing through the two main flues at the bottom to enter and pass through the said return flue to the chimney without passing around the front oven, so that by means of the sliding damper both ovens or only the main one may be heated. And the second part of my invention consists in making hot air chambers between the central and the two side flues at the back, and the two main and the return flues at the bottom by making the partitions double, that is, of two plates," when this is combined with apertures through the bottom and back plates of the stove for the free admission of air to be heated in these chambers to aid in baking." 

"By my improvements the heat that passes through the flues will heat the air in the chambers formed between them and in that way aid in heating the oven or ovens; and by the arrangement of the flues in combination with the arrangement of the two ovens and the dampers the two ovens can be heated regularly, and the heat carried around one or both ovens at pleasure, and when carried around both it will present the additional advantage of heating the open hearth plate sufficiently to admit of broiling and carrying on other culinary operations, which has not heretofore been done without a separate fire in the hearth."  

The patent also gives extensive attention to the means of ventilating the oven and flues.


No. 5987
Orcutt, Lysander A.
Albany
Cooking Stove
December 26, 1848
Witnesses: Ellison, William S. & Wilson, R.J.

"[S]ubstituting in cooking stoves an open 'Franklin fire place' in lieu of the usual close fire chamber [Flickr pic]; (said open fireplace however being so arranged as to be capable of being converted at pleasure into a close fire chamber); and also in a new arrangement of flues and apertures to create a current of hot air through the oven, to carry off the moisture, &c., generated in the act of baking."  Four boiler holes and one in the front hearth, with the smoke pipe in the center of the top plate.  Supplied with a wood or coal grate -- "the whole arrangement combines all the conveniences of an open fire place for roasting, broiling, &c., as also the cheerfulness of an open fire, when used only for heating, with all the advantages of a close airtight cooking stove."  The stove also introduced hot air to heat/ventilate the oven.


D 164
Smith, Elihu
Albany
[The Capitol Air-Tight Cook] Stove
January 18, 1848
Witnesses: Smith, Henry W. & Law, S.D.
[Flickr images begin here]

"THE CAPITOL. SMITHS (sic) CELEBRATED AIR-TIGHT COOKING STOVE, Summer & Winter, Wood & Coal. TWO STOVES IN ONE. Patented Jany. 18th 1848." 

"[A] new and improved design for the Stove plates of a Stove (called, to distinguish it, the Capitol) of which the following is an exact description. The design or ornament is on the exterior surface of the side and top plates of the stove..." -- "an intertwisted vine with leaves and clusters ... a branching ornament ... an upright flower from which proceed branching stems and from the lower part of which runs a vine ... edging ... an ornamented vase with upright and branching stems .... a tapering plant and curved branches."  

Understandably, this degree of detail in the description of a design was unusual.  Far more common and economical was simply to make reference to the drawings.  Smith's drawings seem to be a bit distorted, exaggerating the width of the stove?  The drawing shows LEARNED as the maker's name.



D 165
Potts, Jesse C.
Albany
[Air Tight] Cooking Stove
January 25, 1848
Witnesses: Shires, William T. [?] & Ellison, William S. [engraver]

A standard 4-boiler stove with a Summer Arrangement; marked as "Air Tight" on the drawing.  The drawing itself has its own witnesses -- Charles L. Hazen and J.B. (??) Walker].  This was not uncommon.


D 169
Morrison, Alexander
Troy
[Air-Tight Cook] Stove
March 8, 1848
Witnesses: Ellison, William S. & Houseman, John H.

Another 4-hole Air-Tight Cook Stove.


D 175
Burgess, John
Troy
[Cook] Stove
April 11, 1848
Witnesses: Geer, Gilbert Jr & Gibbs, Albert B.
Assigned to GEER, Robert

Drawing witnessed by Erastus Geer; no detailed description of the design and ornamentation, just "as seen by the model and drawings."  Submitting a model, as with Improvement patents, was neither required nor yet prohibited, so some designers continued to send in cast-iron plates as well as drawings, to clutter the Patent Office until they were discarded.


D 176
Wager, James
Troy
[Cottage Parlor] Stove
April 11, 1848
Witnesses: Robertson, G. Jr & Phillips, Henry

An oval sheet iron upper section, the rest cast.  Detailed description -- leaves, vines, gothic panneling (arches, pillars) "bordered with Grecian ornaments, ... filled in with arabesque work." 


D 180
Ripley, Ezra
Troy
[Air-Tight Parlor] Stove-Plate
May 16, 1848
Witnesses: Fuller, Jacob E. & Ring, George W.
Assigned to COX & Co., Abram

Checker pattern -- "a bold piece of carved work" -- Gothic.


D 181
Ripley, Ezra
Troy
[Parlor] Stove-Plate
May 16, 1848
Witnesses: Fuller, Jacob E. & Ring, George W.
Assigned to COX & Co., Abram

Shows front and top plates only.


D 182
Davy, John T.
Troy
[Washington Airtight] Cooking Stove
May 30, 1848
Witnesses: Hill, Austin A. & Van Zuyl, A.

A nice decorative scheme for his familiar stove type -- the 4-boiler large-oven cook, with Summer Hearth.





D 188
Sanderson, William L.
Troy
[Parlor] Stove
June 27, 1848
Witnesses: Harwood, L.M. & Hill, Austin A.
Assigned to ANTHONY & others

A square parlor stove covered with repetitive scroll work.


D 190
Green, Jeremiah D.
Troy
[Etna Air Tight Parlor] Stove
July 18, 1848
Witnesses: DeWitt, Richard Varick & McCall, H.S.

Elaborate and highly decorated, topped off with the usual urn.


D 191
Ransom, Samuel H.
Albany
[Vulcan Air Tight Cook] Stove
August 1, 1848
Witnesses: De Witt, Richard Varick & Sanders, James B.

"[T]he back of the stove having no peculiar distinguishing ornament," no drawing of it is included.


D 192
Allen, F.W.
Waterford
[Radiator or Air Tight Parlor] Stove
August 10, 1848
Witnesses: Armsby, J.C. & Cramer, J.

The drawing says "Manuf'd F.W. Allen & Co., Waterford, Sold by [Blank] Troy, NY," i.e. the pattern could be customized for individual wholesale dealers who bought from Allen's foundry.  "The front plate of this stove is cast with a foliated base resting upon ornamented legs having reeded projections at the angles crowned by an enriched foliated entablature, and base panelled and ornamented with various characters of figures and flowers and a circular ornamented register..."  The other plates were described in similar detail.  As noted above, most designers made no attempt to describe their work in so many words.  Perhaps they lacked the vocabulary, or were they just not bothered?  The ornamented plates  made up "a composition when taken as a whole which is entirely new," though like almost all stove designs it was just an assembly of standard elements.  


D 193
Ripley, Ezra
Troy
[American Cottage Air Tight Parlor] Stove
August 10, 1848
Witnesses: Fuller, Jacob E. & Cox, Abram
Assigned to JOHNSON & COX

No picture -- missing.


D 194
Ripley, Ezra
Troy
[American Cottage Air Tight Parlor front] Stove-Plate
August 10, 1848
Witnesses: Fuller, Jacob E. & Cox, Abram
Assigned to JOHNSON & COX


D 200
Ring, George W. & Crandall, Joshua
Troy
[Irving Air-Tight Cook] Stove
September 19, 1848
Witnesses: Fuller, J.E. & Cox, William
Assigned to COX & Co., Abram

Note the (a) dairy or griddle top for the front pair of boiler holes in the top plate, to accommodate a single large boiler, and (b) the Summer Arrangement.


D 201
Gibbs, Samuel W.
Albany
[Diamond Air Tight] Cooking Stove
September 19, 1848
Witnesses: DeWitt, Richard Varick & Younglove, J.G.
Assigned to JACKSON, William

An oblong flat (rather than large-oven) stove.


D 207
Rathbone, John F.
Albany
[Air-Tight Parlor] Stove
December 5, 1848
Witnesses: Kennedy, James C. & DeWitt, Richard Varick

With an Urn.



D 208
Vose, Samuel D.
Albany
[Fountain] Parlor Stove
December 19, 1848
Witnesses: Bleeker, W.E. & Simons/Sessions (?), J.W.

This, like many of his designs, can be seen in his Illustrated Book of Stoves (Albany, 1853), Plate XXI.



1849: 10 Improvements, 24 Designs

No. 6068
Granger, Rensselaer D.
Albany
Cooking Stove
January 30, 1849

Witnesses: Greenough, J.J. & Greenough, William

A 6-boiler stove, oblong (i.e. single oven, not L-shaped), whose oven vents into the firebox.  Claimed innovation: "introducing highly heated air into the oven of a reverberatory or diving flue cooking stove, the air itself being made to pass around three sides of the oven before entering it."  Three-flue smoke flue system described as "an old and well known one, no further description thereof is deemed necessary."  Hot-Air flues around the oven, from an air space behind the firebox, "regulate and reduce the excess of heat at the front and top, and distribute it more equally through the oven, portions only of the top and back plate radiate heat directly into the oven, while all the surplus heat from the fire is carried into the oven, near or at its bottom, to disseminate through it, and is thence conveyed in a heated state, together with the steam and effluvia arising from cooking, directly into the fires, to support combustion."


No. 6069
Granger, Rensselaer D.
Albany
Cooking Stove
January 30, 1849
Witnesses: Greenough, J.J. & Greenough, William

An elevated-oven stove with four boilers; handy cross-sectional drawing.  Has his air-heating tubes under the firebox which help heat the oven. 


No. 6087
Chollar, John B.
Albany
Plate for Boiler-Holes and Tops of Stoves
February 6, 1849
Witnesses: Schuyler, Thomas H. & Marshall, J.W.

A modification to "cross or center pieces to cooking stoves and ranges, thereby greatly increasing their durability and strength," by placing a cast-iron tray underneath them "thereby avoiding the loss of the center or cross piece by its settling when heated." "[A]fter casting the center or cross piece and shell I take them to the grindstone (as the most expeditious) and grind the faces of the parts that are to be placed in contact making a good joint," and rivet them together.  There is a small opening through the top -- for the lifter/handle AND "the admission of air thereby keeping the shell and center piece cool. The great difficulty prior to my invention has been that the cross or center piece by becoming heated warped or settled in such a way as to render said cross or center piece entirely useless. The same difficulty exists if it has not been increased by casting a slight strap on the under side of the cross or center piece."


RE 732
Chollar, John B. [Challar]
Albany
Plate for Boiler-Holes and Tops of Cooking Stoves
Originally February 6, 1849, reissued May 31, 1859 

David Stuart and Richard Peterson, Philadelphia [ASSIGNORS] get the reissue: "they now believe the said patent to be inoperative and invalid by reason of a defective specification." 

* Chollar's invention had been to improve durability and strength of centers/cross pieces by the addition of a hollow projection/chamber beneath [for air circulation, stiffening].  "The usual cross or center pieces ... are made of simple flat plates of cast iron, which, owing to the intense and constant heat to which they are subjected, soon sink in the middle and become so warped and bent, and so unfit for the purpose intended as to require repeatedly replacing with new ones. This evil is obviated..."

* The purpose of reissue is to secure the principle, however precisely designed.


No. 6089
Cobb, William
Albany
C[Cobb's] Cooking Stove [Range] [and Hot-Air Furnace]
February 6, 1849
Witnesses: De Witt, Richard Varick & Sanders, James B.

The original was a multi-colored drawing, for showing the gas flow through the smoke and hot-air flues in red and blue, respectively.  This sort of detail is unfortunately completely lost in the USPTO's rather poor B&W archive copy.  The firebox is on the left, with two ovens (flues under) to its right.


No. 6222
Bleecker, William E.
Albany
[Premium] Cooking Stove
March 27, 1849
Witnesses: Wilson, Henry L. & Sessions, John W.

A STEP or PREMIUM Stove, with air chambers between the back of the firebox and front of the oven.  
Under the front of the bottom of the oven too -- just a modification of the usual "guard plate" design,  vs uneven heating, items burnt in the front of the oven or incompletely cooked in the rear.


No. 6499
Brown, Edward R.
Albany
[Brown's Cabinet-Top] Parlor Cooking Stove
June 5, 1849
Witnesses: Brinsmade, J.B. Jr. & DeWitt, Richard Varick

Two boiler holes in the top plate -- an odd shape, but he prefers it "as being the most ornamental in the furniture of a room." "The usefulness of this improvement I consider to consist in the convertibility of the apparatus in a short time from a cooking stove into an ornamental parlor stove having none of the visible insignia of a cooking concern -- a matter not affected by any of the stoves now in use, and one much to be desired for small families wishing to consult economy in their domestic arrangements and yet maintain a due correspondence in taste between the articles of furniture in their parlors."




No. 6547
Wilson, Rosewell
Albany
Cooking Stove
June 19, 1849
Witnesses: Robbins, Z.C. & Smith, L.S.

 A large-oven stove with a system of flues and dampers enabling gases to go around the oven clockwise (standard) or anticlockwise (down the front flue between the oven and the firebox) or direct under the oven -- depending on whether the user wants to (a) use all boiler holes and have HOT oven and/or gain greatest room-heating effect, or (b) use SOME boilers, and cooler oven, or (c) do least amount of cooking and radiate least amount of heat.  A very 
good drawing;  the first clear picture of a cover lifter.

There is no reference in the patent text to much of the detail (lids, lifters, the bottom of the mechanical grate) shown in the drawing.


No. 6564
Bleecker, William E., Bleecker, Henry, & Vose, Samuel D.
Albany
Cooking Stove
July 3, 1849
Witnesses: Wilson, Henry L. & Sessions, John W.

* A modified premium/step stove with a 
new form of BOTTOM FLUE -- "The inequality of heat between the outside and the central part of the bottom of the oven in a straight horizontal flue is very great." [explains, relying on rather a lot of dodgy physics about the behaviour of heat].  The Bleeckers' new flue was designed to minimize this problem.  
* There was also a sort of false bottom plate in the oven, to move the article to be cooked from the hottest part of the bottom plate (the center) -- "A moderate fire and a slow process of baking are usually required to prevent the center from overcooking, before the outsides cook enough" -- this false bottom enabled a hotter fire/quicker baking. 
* With the plate removed, there was a "false oven" in the bottom -- for baking with a moderate fire; for vegetable cooking; for meats etc. requiring "side heat." 


No. 6718
Bleecker, Henry
Albany
Flue for Cooking Stoves
September 18, 1849
Witnesses: Wilson, Henry S. & Van Sickler, Reuben M.

A modification to the fronts of bottom flues in a standard 3-flue stove; the drawings just show parts of flues.


No. 6719
Wheeler, William
Troy
Cooking Stove
September 18, 1849
Witnesses: Greenough, J.J. & Greenough, William

A peculiar form of the 4-boiler square cook with the firebox in the center of the stove, running front > back, with one oven each side.  Wheeler claimed improved fuel 
economy, amongst other benefits. 


D 210
Fay, Henry C.
Troy
[Eureka Circulating Hot Air Cook] Stove
March 10, 1849
Witnesses: Forsyth, J. & Duncan, R.W.

Shows the side of a double-oven stove -- peculiar shape of doors "like the sides of a gothic arch thereby giving the stoves a more symmitrical (sic) appearance than others..." 


D 211
Gibbs, Samuel W.
Albany
[Old Dominion Air Tight Cook] Stove
March 20, 1849
Witnesses: De Witt, Richard Varick & Sanders, James B.
Assigned to JONES & FINNEY (Pattonsburg, southwest VA -- in Piedmont)

An oblong "square stove" with a Summer Arrangement -- muddy reproduction, except "sections of ornaments." Has long pan/flat griddle.


D 219
Haney, Abram
Troy
[Coal Parlor] Stove
April 17, 1849
Witnesses: Ferris, John A. & Tuthill, D.W.
Assigned to J. & A. MORRISON


D 220
Ransom, Samuel H.
Albany
[Premium Cook] Stove
April 24, 1849
Witnesses: Ellison, William S. & Clark, H.

A nice clear drawing of a Premium stove, with a flat bottom plate and a step up from the hob above the firebox to the plate above the oven. Looks as if it MIGHT have the patent ventilated guard plate of ??? -- same distinctive shape of air vents.


D 221
Haney, Abram
Troy
[Floral Air Tight Wood Parlor] Stove
May 8, 1849
Witnesses: Housman, John A. (?) & Manning, William H.
Assigned to MORRISON & TIBBITS


D 222
Gibbs, Samuel W.
Albany
[Model Air Tight Cook] Stove
June 26, 1849
Witnesses: DeWitt, Richard Varick & Younglove, T.G.
Assigned to QUACKENBOSS, Augustus

A square cook stove with Summer Arrangement.  The picture is entirely black.


D 224
Ransom, Samuel H.
Albany
[Elevated Oven] Stove
June 26, 1849
Witnesses: Brimswade, J.B. Jr. & Richard Varick DeWitt


D 225
Ransom, Samuel H.
Albany
[Air-Tight Parlor] Stove
June 26, 1849
Witnesses: McCall, H.S. & De Witt, Richard Varick

With urn and sculpted heads -- a nice, legible drawing.




D 226
Gibbs, Samuel W.
Albany
[Cook] Stove
July 10, 1849
Witnesses: Parsons, S.H.H. & Emsworth, A.P.
Assigned to NORTH, HARRISON & Co. [Philadelphia]

A square cook with "Summer Hearth" -- clear drawing.


D 230
Sanderson, William L.
Troy
[Waverly Air Tight] Parlor Stove
August 21, 1849
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Clucas, A.W. [?]
Assigned to PEASE, KEARNEY & GAGE

An ENORMOUS urn on top, "scrolls and a Vase of Flowers and Leaves on the Front plate." 


D 232
Wager, James
Troy
[Cook] Stove
September 25, 1849
Witnesses: Jones, P.L. & Morton, H.V.W.

Another four-hole cook stove with two additional holes in the Summer Hearth.




D 233
Wager, James
Troy
[Six-Plate] Stove
September 25, 1849
Witnesses: Wells, J.F. & Learned, John F.

The ornamentation is very floral.



D 235
Chambers, George W.
Troy
[Clinton Parlor No. 4] Stove
October 9, 1849
Witnesses: Kendrick, E.H. & Brundage, E.L.
Assigned to COX & Co., Abram

The one plate shown is a model for the others.


D 236
Chambers, George W.
Troy
[Clinton Parlor No. 3] Stove
October 9, 1849
Witnesses: Kendrick, E.H. & Brundage, E.L.
Assigned to COX & Co., Abram



D 240
Gibbs, Samuel W.
Albany
[Air-Tight Parlor] Stove
October 9, 1849
Witnesses: Brimswade, J.B. Jr & De Witt, Richard Varick
Assigned to CROSS & Sons, J.


D 242
Wager, James
Troy
[Parlor] Stove
October 23, 1849
Witnesses: Wells, J.F. & Learned, John F.

"Grecian style" -- "Corinthian border" ... "Gothic pannelled" ... "cyma-recta and cyma-reversa tracery." 


D 245
Rathbone, John F.
Albany
[Air-Tight Cook] Stove
October 23, 1849
Witnesses: Kennedy, James C. & Dewitt, Richard Varick


D 246
Rathbone, John F.
Albany
[Box] Stove
October 23, 1849
Witnesses: Kennedy, James C. & Dewitt, Richard Varick

Illegible drawing.  A wood stove.


D 247
Rathbone, John F.
Albany
[Republican Air-Tight Cook] Stove
October 23, 1849
Witnesses: Dewitt, Richard Varick & Kennedy, James C.

Poor drawing, but shows the door decorations clearly; a square cook with summer hearth.  


D 248
Haney, A.
Troy
[Diving Flue Grate] Stove
November 6, 1849
Witnesses: Manning, William H. & Hansman/Housman, John H.
Assigned to MORRISON & TIBBITS


D 249
Clark, Samuel
Troy
[Commercial Parlor No. 5] Stove
November 13, 1849
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Cox, Abram
Assigned to JOHNSON, E. & COX, D.B.

Full-size original drawing at RCHS.


D 250
Clark, Samuel
Troy
[Commercial Parlor No. 3] Stove
November 13, 1849
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Cox, Abram
Assigned to JOHNSON & COX

RCHS.


D 251
Clark, Samuel
Troy
[Commercial Parlor No. 5] Stove
November 13, 1849
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Cox, Abram
Assigned to JOHNSON & COX

RCHS.


D 255
Sanderson, William L.
Troy
Parlor Stove
December 18, 1849
Witnesses: Brundage, E.S. & Vedder, Nicholas S.
Assigned to DUNHAM & Co., A.T. [Dunham, Coller (sic), & Sage]

The name on the hearth: A.T. Dunham & Co., 251 River St., Troy NY.  Partial drawing -- "that which is omitted being a repetition of the same and corresponding with that reproduced on the parts left blank in the drawings." 



1850: 8 Improvements, 23 Designs


No. 6985
Greene, Chauncey O.
Troy, West
Coal Grate
January 1, 1850
Witnesses: Abbott, S.E. & Morris, John

For wood or coal -- gives precise measurements.  Consists of a hollow, air-cooled cylinder with fins.  Seems to be the grate in the WILSON Cook Stove, No. 6547 (1848)


No. 7159
Davy, John T.
Troy
Sad-Iron-Heating Furnace
March 12, 1850
Witnesses: Sheldon, Richard S. & Anthony, A.C.

Portable.  This was not the first sad-iron heating furnace, but it was far more sophisticated, and a model for many of those that followed.  Aim: "to construct such an apparatus as would afford a convenient mode of heating the flats (sad-irons) and at the same time throw out but little heat into the room."  Topped by a heating chamber leaving "the handle exposed to the cooling influence of the external air," a revolving drum "by which means the flats can be brought in regular rotation convenient to the ironer."  Sad-iron heaters were a niche product, but it was a large enough potential market to attract considerable inventive attention after Davy blazed the way.



No. 7284
Davy, John T.
Troy
Grate for Cooking-Stoves
April 16, 1850
Witnesses: Bell, E. & Brundage, E.L.

The description explains that it's for use in connection with the SAMUEL PIERCE 1847 Curved Plate patent -- "so that the coals are let down into the summer arrangement for broiling and other purposes and also the fire chamber is of ashes in the same manner." 


No. 7345
Hyde, James R.
Troy
Cooking Stove
May 7, 1850
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Blanchard, H.A.

Another 4-boiler square stove with a 2-boiler summer hearth.

Key features: (1) "constructing the fire box so that it shall not crack in the expansion and contraction to which it is subject from the great and unequal degree of heat to which it is exposed;" (2) the front flue from the summer arrangement, used for broiling &c.; (3) a sliding hearth to get it out of the way [I can't see how this works from drawing].


No. 7356
Atwood, Anson
Troy
[Smoke-Consuming] Stove
May 14, 1850
Witnesses: Greenough, William & Everett, Edward

"Many plans have been devised for the purpose of consuming smoke in the various species of stoves, furnaces, &c., by the admission of air above the fuel, which mixing with the inflammable gases and smoke in a heated state would consume them, provided the gases, &c., were at a sufficiently high temperature to ignite after being mixed with a stream of cold air. This difficulty of maintaining a temperature high enough to ignite the gases, has been the cause of failure in most instances; and another difficulty has been the imperfect intermixture of the inflammable gases with the atmospheric air which prevented their inflammation until they had become too cold to ignite."  Atwood's answer to these problems was an air preheater and his design of air-inlet nozzles in the firebox.


RE 176
Atwood, Anson
Troy
Heating Stove
September 17, 1850
Witnesses: Everett, Edward & Donn, T.C.

Explains why most previous efforts failed / why his works.


No. 7483
Ransom, Samuel H.
Albany
Construction of Cooking Stoves
July 2, 1850
Witnesses: Clark, H. & Wells, George A.

Another 4-hole with summer arrangement; has an air chamber at the top front corner of the oven, behind the firebox.  There is a detailed description of the manner of making the fire bottom and front hearth in ONE PIECE.   "I avoid all the objections to the old modes entirely and am enabled to produce a stove of this class at less cost and which is less liable to derangement than any other stove of this class heretofore made." 


No. 7593
Chollar, John B.
Troy, West
Revolving Coal Grate
August 27, 1850
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Emmons, H.C.

Hollow circular grate-bars with slightly inclined (10 degrees) spiral fins, quite close together.  Chollar describes the defects of earlier similar screw-grates, and how he has overcome them.


No. 7775
Pierce, Samuel
Troy
Cooking Stove
November 12, 1850
Witnesses: Keller, C.W.M. & Browne, Charles T.

Heating the front of an extended oven stove "without the necessity of causing the products of combustion to pass to or around the front oven plate," i.e Pierce was avoiding the BUCK patent.   "The top, back and bottom of the oven are heated by fire flues arranged in the manner of the well known Hoxie and Hathaway stoves," i.e. Pierce was claiming a separate (out-of-patent) origin for those features that his stove shared with Buck's.  His special feature was an air pre-heating chamber between the firebox and the oven, air from which heated the 
lower front of the oven then vented into it and out into rear flue.


D 259
Simmons, Peter J.
Troy
[Cook] Stove
February 5, 1850
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Kendrick, S.

A 4-boiler stove; Fig. 2 shows the side plate of the stove with Simmons' name on it.


D 263
Vose, Samuel D.
Albany
[Premium Cook] Stove
February 12, 1850
Witnesses: Adams, James N. & Gardner, George W.

4-boiler stove with two rear holes bulged out.


D 264
Vose, Samuel D.
Albany
[Hunter's Parlor] Stove
February 12, 1850
Witnesses: Adams, James N. & Gardner, George W.

There is an image of a hunter on the front plate.


D 265
Vose, Samuel D.
Albany
[Parlor Cook] Stove
February 12, 1850
Witnesses: Adams, Janes N. & Gardner, George W.

3 boilers, no oven (cf. ##).


D 267
Green, Jeremiah D. & Warren, George
Troy
Cooking Stove
Witnesses: Bell, E. & Brundage, E.L.

The drawing shows "Green & Warren Patent Troy NY" over the oven door -- "Our Cooking Stove...is of the usual form; the sides, top and bottom plates being plain, and the ornamental design being confined to the various doors with which the sides are fitted, and to the feet by which it is supported." -- arabesques and "leaves radiating from a central elliptical fillet."


D 269
Sanderson, William L.
Troy
[Excelsior] Parlor Stove
February 26, 1850
Assigned to CLUTE & Bros.

Nice drawings -- "scrolls, and a basket of fruit on the front plate."


D 274
House, Samuel A.
Mechanicsville
[Saratoga County Air Tight Cook] Stove
March 26, 1850
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Bell, E.

The name is the front fire doors.  The drawing does NOT show "the hearth or summer arrangement." The stove is "in the usual form of a square Cooking Stove, with rounded corners" and has "arabesque ornamented feet."


D 277
Wager, James
Troy
[Six-Plate] Stove
April 2, 1850
Witnesses: Chum, John H. & Wells, J.F.

"This design is intended for the ordinary six plate Stove, but is applicable to other kinds of stoves."  Consists of "a spread eagle standing upon a shield with a cornucopia of fruit and flowers on each side and over which is a scroll with stars and the motto 'Ne plus ultra'" and the Goddess of Liberty on the front.  In these critical years following the Mexican War there was a good number of stoves with patriotic names and motifs like this.


D 279
Crandall, Joshua
Troy
[Queen of the City Cook] Stove
April 9, 1850
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Palmer, P.U.
Assigned to COX & Co., Abram

Name on the front plate -- "My stove is the usual form of a square, four boiler cooking stove; so shaped in its mouldings and disposition of ornaments, as to constitute a new design and configuration of stove."  It was "elaborately ornamented with arabesque figures." 

RCHS 


D 280
Green, Jeremiah D. & Warren, George
Troy
[Prize Premium] Cooking Stove
April 16, 1850
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Kendrick, E.H.

"[I]n the form of that well known as the 'Prize Premium'." Feet: "voluted border scrolls ... within which are arabesque figures." 


D 288
Davy, John T.
Troy
[Fancy] Coal [Burner] Stove
June 4, 1850
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Emmons, H.C.

Nice square heater, with urn. Marked  DAVY, ANTHONY & PHILLIPS.


D 291
Rathbone, John F.
Albany
[Parlor] Stove
June 18, 1850
Witnesses: De Witt, Richard Varick & Brinsmade, J.B., Jr


D 292
Rathbone, John F.
Albany
[Queen of the West Cook] Stove
June 18, 1850
Witnesses: De Witt, Richard Varick & Brinsmade, J.B., Jr


D 293
Wager, James, Pratt, David, & Richmond, Volney
Troy 
[Cook] Stove
June 18, 1850
Witnesses: Learned, John F. & Wells, J.F.

"The general figure is oblong like most modern stoves for cooking purposes." Principal feature "a star ornament in the centre [of the door] with beaded rays reflecting in every direction." 


D 296
Sanderson, William L.
Troy
[Gem of Troy] Cooking Stove
June 25, 1850
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Kendrick, S.
Assigned to DUNHAM & Co., A.T.

Marked "Manuf'd by Collar, Sage & Dunham, West Troy No. 4"  [all text on front of stove, above/below doors].  "My stove is in the usual form of the square four boiler hole; the ornaments consist of representations of oak leaves and acorns disposed on the doors, pannels (sic) and other parts of the stove, as represented." 


D 297
Crandall, Joshua
Troy
[Premium Cook] Stove
July 2, 1850
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Cox, Abram
Assigned to JOHNSON, E. & COX, D.B.

"The Ornaments consist of stars situated in the centre of the doors and rays issuing therefrom." 


D 306
Rathbone, John F.
Albany
Coal [Cylinder] Stove
August 13, 1850
Witnesses: Kennedy, James C., Sanders, James B., & De Witt, Richard Varick

Partly sheet iron.




D 307
Blanchard, Reuben J.
Albany
[Parlor] Stove
August 13, 1850
Witnesses: Hills, Charles A. & Learned, William L.
Assigned to LEARNED, B.F. & THATCHER, George H.

Ornament "leaves and vines and is all in relief."


D 310
Ring, George W.
Troy
Parlor Stove
August 27, 1850
Witnesses: Bell, E. & Cox, Abram
Assigned to JOHNSON, COX & FULLER

"The design of my stove consists in style of gothic architecture" -- RCHS.


D 321
Blanchard, Reuben J.
Albany
[Parlor Cook] Stove
September 24, 1850
[Witnesses?]
Assigned to LEARNED, Billings P. & THATCHER, George H.

Plates only.  Fig. 4 is the "cover or griddle plate" with a "cornucopia & the fruits & flowers... vines & leaves... scrolls."  Final page (with witness names) omitted.


D 327
Ripley, Ezra
Troy
[No. 1 Parlor] Stove
October 22, 1850
Witnesses: Ware, C.L. & Brundage, E.L.
Assigned to EDDY, George W. [Waterford, NY]


D 328
Ripley, Ezra
Troy
[Parlor] Stove
October 22, 1850
Witnesses: Ware, C.L. & Brundage, E.L.
Assigned to EDDY, George W. [Waterford, NY]

p. 3 "The distinguishing feature ... is a representation of a town clock face combined with ornaments & mouldings." 


D 332
Blanchard, Reuben J.
Albany
[Albany Cooking] Stove
November 12, 1850
Witnesses: Learned, William L. & Wilson, G.L.
Assigned to LEARNED, Billings P. & THATCHER, George H. [Albany]

Oven door -- "the sides of which are ornamented and strengthened with heavy mouldings, and the centre of which is ornamented with a design representing a bunch of leaves tied together with a band or ribbon." "This door and foot being the only ornamented parts of the Stove, the remainder of the stove is not represented in the drawings."


D 338
Pierce, Samuel
Troy
[Union of the States Cook] Stove
December 3, 1850
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Cruikshank, R.
Assigned to JOHNSON, COX & FULLER

Name on the front, J, C & F's name on the side above oven door; decoration rosettes surrounded by sunbursts (rays) with arabesques.  RCHS.



1851: 8 Improvements, 31 Designs


No. 7909
Thatcher, George H.
Albany
[Heating] Stove
January 21, 1851
Witnesses: Elliott, William P. & Johnson, A.E.H.

Looks like a 6-plate, but with a coal grate and 2 doors to close it (sliding: disappear when open; air tight joints when closed).  Object: "to combine the advantages of an open grate and a close stove." 


No. 7914
Smith, Elihu
Albany
Stove [Light Reflector and Evaporator]
January 28, 1851
Witnesses: De Witt, Richard Varick & Sanders, James B.

There is a mirror behind the urn.  Description: "a new useful & ornamental apparatus for exhibiting & disseminating the light of stove-fires & for the arrangement of a water-evaporating vessel to operate in connection therewith, which I call 'Smith's Stove-Light Reflector & Evaporator."  There were mica-covered lids for the boiler holes in the top plate, so that the light of fire comes up and is reflected by the mirror and refracted by the water in the evaporator "diffusing a pleasant light to illuminate the room .... a clearer light than is usually produced from the lateral glass openings commonly used in stoves, as the light of the burning materials is less obstructed by ashes, clinkers, &c., on the top than at the sides of the fire." 


No. 7973
Granger, Rensselaer D.
Albany
[Granger's] Air-Tight Franklin [Stove]
March 11, 1851
Witnesses: Browne, Alexander Porter & Bishop, William

"The great objection to Franklin stoves heretofore made has been their liability to smoke when without doors, or with doors swinging on hinges, since the quantity of air admitted could not be controlled to meet the capacity of the stove and flues, and the smoke would escape from the stove."  Granger's answer: hot-air chambers; sliding doors -- "convert [the stove] at pleasure into an air-tight stove for economy in fuel and safety and convenience in use." 


No. 8043
Spoor, Abraham D.
Troy
Agitating Grate-bars [The Economical Grate]
April 15, 1851
Witnesses: Wilson, Joseph & Robertson, G. Jr.

For open or closed fireplaces -- "would prove itself of advantage in locomotive, marine, or stationary boiler furnaces as well as in stoves and replaces generally." 


No. 8104
Pierce, Samuel
Troy
Hot-Air Furnace
May 20, 1851
Witnesses: Bishop, William H. & Browne, Casper

Excellent drawing -- huge, non-portable type, in brick enclosure.  The distinctive feature is Pierce's design of efficient multi-stage heat-exchangers, set out horizontally.



No. 8263
Thatcher, George H.
Albany
Stove with Portable Oven
July 29, 1851
Witnesses: Elliott, William P. & Johnson, A.E.H.

"[A] hand oven adapted to the fire-chamber or upper flue of any ordinary cooking stove;" "being so simple in its construction that it may be made by an ordinary tinman to suit any ordinary stove."  Looked a bit like an inverted bread-bin, sitting over front two boiler holes; takes hot gas from the top of the firebox, circulates it around the oven in a tin jacket, passes back down into top flue.


No. 8277
Thatcher, G.H.
Albany
Quadrant [Turning] Hinged Grate
August 5, 1851
Witnesses: Elliott, William P. & Johnson, A.E.H.

"[D]umped or cleared with great ease" -- without having to open a stove door.  Thatcher (or his agent) writes a very clear specification so as to distinguish his grate from prior examples.


No. 8523
Gardner, George W.
Albany
Stove Grate Bar
November 18, 1851
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Stewart, Philo Penfield

The bars are vibrated laterally -- drawing shows this fitting set under the firebox of a stove.


RE 1685
Gardiner, George P.
Albany & Troy
Stove Grate-Bar
November 18, 1851
Witnesses: Hall, Benjamin H. & Norton, Marcus P.
Assigned to STEWART, Philo P.

Assigned to PHILO P. STEWART on 1 July 1863 -- and it's STEWART who makes this Reissue application.  (1) Agitation via a lever moved horizontally to and fro to "crush and liberate cinders or clinkers."  (2) "[V]ery convenient for use in cooking-stoves and furnaces which have but small space below the grate for the falling ashes and cinders" -- especially when the front of the oven extends under the firebox (tho I couldn't understand exactly why...) 


D 343
Smith, Elihu
Albany
[Smith's Mirror] Stove
January 7, 1851
Witnesses: Sanders, James B. & De Witt, Richard Varick

Shows a parlor stove with his mirror device on top.  Description -- "the annexed drawings are full & accurate delineations of the ornamental parts, with their several ornaments; the end plate not represented being similar to the one represented, and when portions of the plate are shown, the portions not shown being symmetrical with them & similarly ornamented." 


D 345
Gibbs, Samuel W.
Albany
[Cook] Stove
January 21, 1851
Witnesses: Groot, P.W. & Gibson, David H.
Assigned to NORTH, HARRISON & Co. [Philadelphia]

4-boiler, 2 in summer hearth, bulged front of top plate.


D 346
Gibbs, Samuel W.
Albany
[Monarch Air Tight Cooking] Stove
January 21, 1851
Witnesses: Brinsmade, J.B. Jr. & De Witt, Richard Varick
Assigned to JAGGER, Ira, TREADWELL, William B. & PERRY, John S.


D 348
House, Samuel A.
Mechanicsville
Cooking Stove
February 4, 1851
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Emmons, H.C.


D 349
House, Samuel A.
Mechanicsville
Parlor Stove
February 4, 1851
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Emmons, H.C.


D 356
Gibbs, Samuel W.
Albany
[Six-Plate] Stove
March 4, 1851
Witnesses: Brinsmade, J.B. Jr. & De Witt, Richard Varick
Assigned to JAGGER, TREADWELL & PERRY

A fancy box; has JAGGER TREADWELL PERRY on the hearthplate.


D 357
Gibbs, Samuel W.
Albany
[Forest Queen Cooking] Stove
March 4, 1851
Witnesses: Sanders, James B. & De Witt, Richard Varick
Assigned to JAGGER, TREADWELL & PERRY

With Elevated Oven. A dark image, barely readable.


D 358
Perry, John S.
Albany
[Cook] Stove
March 4, 1851
Witnesses: Ellison, William S. & Adams, Roland

Quite a nice drawing.



D 359
Gibbs, Samuel W.
Albany
[Air-Tight Box] Stove
Mar. 4, 1851
Witnesses: Ellison, William S. & Hazen, Charles H.
Assigned to JAGGER, TREADWELL & PERRY


D 366
Gibbs, Samuel W.
Albany
[Cooking] Stove
April 8, 1851
Witnesses: Brinsmade, J.B. Jr & De Witt, Richard Varick
Assigned to JAGGER, TREADWELL & PERRY

The second page of drawings contains half of the front and back plates.


D 373
Wager, James, Pratt, David, & Richmond, Volney
Troy
[Coal] Stove
May 20, 1851
Witnesses: Low, John A. & Robertson, G. Jr

Main feature: a Gothic window.




D 377
Ripley, Ezra
Troy
[Regulator] Parlor Stove
May 27, 1851
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Bell, E.
Assigned to STAFFORD & Co.

Covered with the usual "arabesque figures."


D 379
Sanderson, William L.
Troy
Cooking Stove
June 3, 1851
Witnesses: Vedder, Nicholas S. & Mosher, M.J.
Assigned to: FINCH, REUBEN R. [Peekskill]

Nice drawing -- another Square Cook, with a very detailed description.


D 380
Gibbs, Samuel W.
Albany
[Cooking] Stove
June 10, 1851
Witnesses: Brinsmade, J.B. Jr & De Witt, Richard Varick
Assigned to: JAGGER, TREADWELL & PERRY


D 382
Cox, Abram, Johnson, Elias, & Cox, David B.
Troy
[Irving Airtight 
Improved No. 5 Cook] Stove
June 10, 1851
Witnesses: Fuller, Joseph W. & Phillips, Ralph

No assignment -- all three partners of Cox & Co. shared the patent.  Drawing shows Irving Airtight Imp'd No. 3 Pat'd 1851 A. Cox & Co. Troy N.Y. prominently on front -- "This Design consists in a peculiarly constructed set of ornamental figurework composing an ornamental pattern." Detailed description, and front and side [i.e. fire-door] views.  RCHS.


D 383
Cox, Abram
Johnson, Elias, & Cox, David B.
Troy
[Domestic Air Tight Cook] Stove
June 10, 1851
Witnesses: Fuller, Joseph W. & Phillips, Ralph

RCHS.  Drawing shows "J. LIDDLE 220 WATER ST N.Y." on the front -- Johnson, Cox, & Fuller's New York wholesaler?


D 384
Rathbone, John F.
Albany
[Six-Plate] Stove
June 10, 1851
Witnesses: Kennedy, James C., Sanders, James D. & Richard Varick De Witt


D 388
House, Samuel A.
Mechanicsville
[Box] Stove
June 24, 1851
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Bell, E.

Printed.


D 389
Rathbone, John F.
Albany
[Elevated Oven] Cooking Stove
July 8, 1851
Witnesses: Brinsmade, J.B. Jr & De Witt, Richard Varick


D 394
Gibbs, Samuel W.
Albany
[Cook] Stove
July 8, 1851
Witnesses: Paddock, L. Jr & Lettle, I/J. M. (?)
Assigned to NORTH HARRISON & CHASE [Philadelphia]




D 395
Rathbone, John F.
Albany
[Parlor] Franklin Stove Plate
July 8, 1851
Witnesses: Johnson, J.J. & Dewitt (sic), Richard V.


D 396
Rathbone, John F.
Albany
[Premium] Cooking Stove
July 8, 1851
Witnesses: Brinsmade, J.B. & De Witt, Richard Varick


D 401
Blanchard, Reuben J.
Albany
[Parlor] Stove
July 29, 1851
Witnesses: Learned, Tom L. & Kip, Leonard
Assigned to LEARNED & THATCHER

Half of end plate, quarter of top plate.


D 402
Blanchard, Reuben J.
Albany
[Parlor] Stove
July 29, 1851
Witnesses: Learned, Tom L. & Kip, Leonard
Assigned to LEARNED & THATCHER

Half of the end and top plates -- parlor stove??  Ornament in relief -- vines & leaves.  "Upon the scroll in the front plate is the name of the maker of the stove, which is omitted in the drawings as forming no part of the invented ornament." 


D 403
Blanchard, Reuben J.
Albany
[Parlor?] Stove
July 29, 1851
Witnesses: Learned, Tom L. & Kip, Leonard
Assigned to LEARNED & THATCHER

Half of end and front, and quarter of top plates.  Decoration: "looped up drapery and tassels ... a vine like ornament ... a kind of batswing ornament" -- in relief.


D 404
Vedder, Nicholas S.
Troy
[Fashion of Troy Cook] Stove
July 29, 1851
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Riley, R.H.
Assigned to DUNHAM & Co., A.T. [Troy]

Star patterns on doors, starbursts, and diamonds.


D 416
Ripley, Ezra
Troy
[Grecian Parlor] Stove-Front
September 30, 1851
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Bell, E.

High-quality image of a parlor heater -- the usual "rosets (sic) and arabesques." 


D 421
Ripley, Ezra
Troy
[Boston Casket Cook] Stove
October 28, 1851
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Hyde, H.J.
Assigned to CHOLLAR, GAGE & DUNHAM [W. Troy]

High quality drawing -- decoration is the usual "roseats...bead mouldings...arabesques."


D 422
Gibbs, Samuel W.
Albany
[Coal Parlor] Stove
November 11, 1851
Witnesses: Crump, John & Jones, Augustus T.
Assigned to NORTH, HARRISON & CHASE [Phila.]

Refers to a model ans well as including  NINE figures including two sections of "moulding" (top and hearth plates).  "The design of the cover and foot, not being original with me, I do not claim them as any part of my invention, except when they are used in combination with the parts of my design above referred to." 




D 426
Ripley, Ezra & Vedder, Nicholas S.
Troy
[Severe Air Tight] Parlor Stove
November 25, 1851
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Snyder, A.
Assigned to LOW & HICKS

Heater, nice drawing -- Gothic arches and diamond pattern.


D 428
Green, Jeremiah D.
Troy
[Cook] Stove
December 9, 1851
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Snyder, A.
Assigned to BACKUS BACON & Co.



1852: 2 Improvements, 30 Designs


No. 8832
Thatcher, I.M.
Troy (Lansingburgh)
Air-Heating Stove
March 23, 1852
Witnesses: Allen, G.B. & Dougrey, James

Drawing title: Hot-Air Furnace -- unusual heat-exchanger structure, concentric flues.  Ever built?  Never caught on. 


No. 9212
Blanchard, Reuben J.
Albany
Cooking Stove
August 24, 1852
Witnesses: De Witt, Richard Varick & Ghert, T.W.

Long critique of stoves with two descending flues in front corners of stove -- which, HJH?? Solution = "separators" to divide/reunite gas flows in descending/ascending flues, with top and bottom of oven served by single sheet flues.  N.B. design problem = stove pipe emerges at top of front plate, so there's no front hearth for broiling etc. UNLESS that's on a side hearth in front of firebox door? No reference to a Summer Arrangement.  So probably a design dead-end?


D 433
Burnam, Sanford
Waterford
[Parlor Cook] Stove
January 6, 1852
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Bell, E.
Assigned to EDDY, George W. & Himself [crossed out on drawing]

Fig. 1 shows as COOK STOVE, Fig. 2 = top for PARLOR.  Decoration  "gothic arches ... oak branches, leaves & acorns ... prominent arabesque clusters ... columns." "When the stove is not used in cooking the ornamental top in fig 2 is placed upon the stove, which shall give it an entire appearance of a parlour stove."  Stove top can be cast with openings [to place upon cook top] or closed "for an exclusively parlour stove as a permanent fixture." 


D 437
Wager, James, Pratt, David, & Richmond, Volney
Troy
[Franklin Parlor] Stove
January 13, 1852
Witnesses: Learned, John F. & Shumway, Henry J.

"[O]pen front or Franklin Parlor Stove" -- detailed description; language of architecture / cabinetwork employed.  The Blower is Gothic, but there are also Grecian elements (e.g. acanthus leaf).


D 439
Burgess, John
Troy
[Pagoda] Coal [Burner] Stove
January 13, 1852
Witnesses: Chum, A.W. & Geer, Erastus
Assigned to GEER, CHAFFEE & RICHMOND [Troy]

"[P]rincipally of Gothic architecture and arabesque figures." 


D 449
Vedder, Nicholas S. & Sanderson, William L.
Troy
[Saratoga Coal Burner No. 3] Parlor [or Office] Stove
February 24, 1852
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Snyder, A.
Assigned to WARREN, SWETLAND & LITTLE [Half Moon Village, NY]

Square Column stove with Urn on top.  "Gothic Window and door arches ... and arabesque ornaments mouldings &c disposed on the various parts of the stove as represented." 


D 451
Savage, J.J.
Troy
[New York and Erie] Cooking Stove
April 13, 1852
Witnesses: Peckham, Reuben & Hammond, John H.
Assigned to MORRISON, Alexander & TIBBETTS, Thomas M.

"[D]rop oven door, the panel of which is ornamented with a locomotive engine, tender and passenger car, represented as being in motion."  Also "a locomotive engine, tender & passenger car, crossing a bridge & river."  Decoration includes a "Romanesque rosette." 

RCHS.



D 458
Vedder, Nicholas S. & Sanderson, William L.
Troy
[Mohawk Valley Air Tight, Elevated Oven] Cook Stove
May 18, 1852
Witnesses: Brundage, E.L. & Savage, John J.
Assigned to CLUTE, Peter J. [Schenectady]

Four boiler-hole stove with "arabesque figures" and "mouldings." 


D 462
Vose, Samuel D.
Albany
Parlor Stove
June 22, 1852
Witnesses: Adams, James D. & Prendergast, E.

Rectangle on a plinth, with Urn -- cf. "Souvenir" in 1853 Catalogue.


D 463
Vose, Samuel D.
Albany
Coal [Burner] Stove
June 22, 1852
Witnesses: Adams, James N. & Prendergast, E.


D 464
Vose, Samuel D.
Albany
Box Stove
June 22, 1852
Witnesses: Adams, James N. & Prendergast, E.


D 465
Vose, Samuel D.
Albany
Parlor Cook Stove
June 22, 1852
Witnesses: Adams, James N. & Prendergast, E.


D 466
Sanderson, William L.
Troy
[Cottage Air Tight Parlor and] Dining-R
oom Stove
June 22, 1852
Witnesses: Vedder, Nicholas S. & Goodman, D.E.
Assigned to FINCH, Reuben R. (Sr & Jr) [Peeksville (sic), i.e. Peekskill]

Topped with a "water evaporating vase"; decoration "scroll work and festoons of leaves."


D 467
Gibbs, Samuel W.
Albany
[Premium] Cooking Stove
June 22, 1852
Witnesses: Bender, M.W. & Puddock, S. Jr
Assigned to NORTH, HARRISON & CHASE [Philadelphia]




D 469
Green, Jeremiah D.
Troy
[Ida] Parlor Stove
July 6, 1852
Witnesses: Savage, John J. & Snyder, A.
Assigned to MORRISON, Alexander & TIBBITS, Thomas M.

RCHS  -- nice drawing.  "[A]rabesque scroll work & leafs (sic)", plus a big Urn.


D 471
Vose, Samuel D.
Albany
[Air Tight] Cooking Stove
July 13, 1852
Witnesses: Adams, James N. & Prendergast, E.


D 489
Perry, John S.
Albany
[Black Diamond] Cooking Stove
August 17, 1852
Witnesses: Jenkins, John J. & De Witt, Richard Varick
Assigned to JAGGER, TREADWELL, & PERRY

Image unusable, all black


D 490
Perry, John S.
Albany
[May Flower] Cooking Stove
August 17, 1852
Witnesses: Jenkins, John J. & De Witt, Richard Varick
Assigned to JAGGER, TREADWELL, & PERRY

Nice drawing -- sunburst panels.



D 491
Ripley, Ezra
Troy
[Kossuth] Parlor Stove
August 31, 1852
Witnesses: Savage, John J. & Savage, E.W.M.
Assigned to VEDDER, Nicholas S. 

A wood stove, i.e. a typical Troy decorated rectangular box.  Nice drawing -- scrolls, scollops, diamond work, rosettes, leaf.


D 492
House, Samuel A.
Mechanicsville
[The Volunteer] Parlor Stove Plate
August 31, 1852
Witnesses: Savage, John J. & Moran, John
Assigned to HOUSE, Hiram [Troy]

Simple arabesque design for one plate -- portrait orientation rectangle with hatch in upper part.


D 493
House, Samuel A.
Mechanicsville
[Fairie Queen] Parlor Stove Top & Front-Plate
August 31, 1852
Witnesses: Savage, John J. & Moran, John
Assigned to HOUSE, Hiram

Front & top plates, nice drawings -- scallop shapes.


D 494
House, Samuel A.
Mechanicsville
[Pride of the North] Parlor Stove Front
August 31, 1852
Witnesses: Savage, John J. & Moran, John
Assigned to HOUSE, Hiram

Strong, simple design.


D 497
Sanderson, William L.
Troy
[Franklin] Coal [Burner] Stove
September 7, 1852
Witnesses: Goodman, D.E. & Vedder, Nicholas S.
Assigned to FINCH, Reuben R. (Sr & Jr) Peeksville (sic).

Exact description, including ornamentation of sides and back,  "water vase and cover."


D 498
Vose, Samuel D.
Albany
Cooking Stove
September 14, 1852
Witnesses: Adams, James N. & Prendergast, E.


D 500
Vose, Samuel D.
Albany
[Air Tight] Cook Stove
September 14, 1852
[Witnesses?]


D 501
Vedder, Nicholas S.
Troy
[Beauty of the West] Cook Stove
September 14, 1852
Witnesses: Savage, John J. & Snyder, A.

Square, flat stove with rosettes.


D 502
Dulley, James J.
Troy
[Home Parlor No. 5] Parlor Stove
September 14, 1852
Witnesses: Bell, E. & Savage, John J.
Assigned to JOHNSON, COX & FULLER

"[B]ottom, front and top plates" -- "gothic mouldings" and columns, arches and diamond work 

RCHS


D 510
Vedder, Nicholas S.
Troy
[Fire King] Parlor Stove
October 12, 1852
Witnesses: Savage, John J. & Snyder, A.

Square Column, Gothic.


D 511
Smith, Elihu
Albany
[Pride of Our Union] Cooking Stove
October 19, 1852
Witnesses: De Witt, Richard Varick & McCall, H.S.

The drawing is very dark, but it's another of his two-part cooking stoves, with an elevated oven.


D 515
Wager, James, Richmond, Volney, & Smith, Harvey
Troy
Cooking Stove
October 26, 1852
Witnesses: Learned, John F. & 
Sheldon, F.A.

Door ornaments: "triangular fillets arranged in hexangular compartments." Back plate: "triangular fillets running diagonally across the panel and abutting at their intersections against small hemispheres." 


D 519
Vedder, Nicholas S.
Troy
[Charter Oak] Cook Stove
November 2, 1852
Witnesses: Savage, John J. & Johnston, T.

A square stove with an "oak branch, leaves and acorns" on all panels.  The patent document does not say this, but the design was assigned to Giles Filley's Excelsior Stove Works in St Louis, Missouri, and went on to become the largest-selling cooking stove for the next several decades.  Vedder's design gave the stove its lasting brand name as well as its appearance, and "Charter Oak" was eventually adopted by the company as its own name.





D 532
Wager, James, Richmond, Volney, & Smith, Harvey
Troy
Box [or Six Plate] Stove
December 14, 1852
Witnesses: Learned, John F. & Sheldon, F.A.



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