Cooling and Preserving Apparatus.

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Patent for a "cooling apparatus in which a cloth envelops a vertically-disposed series of supports, and has its upper end dipping into a receptacle supplied with water; and the object of the improvement is to secure a uniformity of temperature throughout the structure, and particularly in the several compartments formed between the various supports, as well as to prevent the spoiling of food by foreign matters entering the same by accidental dislodgment from a support immediately thereover." (Lines 8-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.

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[1], 2 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Brown, Elijah Clark April 30, 1895.

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Patent for a "cooling apparatus in which a cloth envelops a vertically-disposed series of supports, and has its upper end dipping into a receptacle supplied with water; and the object of the improvement is to secure a uniformity of temperature throughout the structure, and particularly in the several compartments formed between the various supports, as well as to prevent the spoiling of food by foreign matters entering the same by accidental dislodgment from a support immediately thereover." (Lines 8-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.

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[1], 2 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 538,233, dated April 30, 1895. Application filed October 8, 1894. Serial No. 525,265. (No model.)

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  • April 30, 1895

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  • October 8, 1894

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Brown, Elijah Clark. Cooling and Preserving Apparatus., patent, April 30, 1895; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth173973/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.

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