#patent model

▪︎Bachelder's Patent Model of a Sewing Machine.

Date: 1849

Inventor: Bachelder, John

Place of origin: United States, Massachusetts, Boston

This is an original scratch built, finely detailed working model of an agricultural loader.

This loader was specifically a shock- loader for loading shocks of hay or wheat. It could be pulled by horses or tractor and in the early 1900s, saved a great deal of time for the farmer as opposed to throwing the shocks on the wagon by hand. Originally made by Herman Schneider at this father’s blacksmith shop in Brunner, Ontario. Both sides painted "The Rapid Loader, Patented Dec. 11, 1914" and "Foreign Patents Pending. Pat’d Dec 11, 1913". The names of the inventor (H.D. Schneider) and designer (B. Azimoff) are recorded on the rear plate. Included in the lot are spare parts and non-functioning parts replaced during restoration. Included a cache of notes and photographs pertaining to the model. A copy of a newspaper article entitled, "Brunner man invented shock-loader" is also included. Tag marked: "H.D. Schneider-Inventor. Azimoff-Designer"

Multiple Effect Vacuum Evaporator (patent model)

SALESMAN'S SAMPLE POTATO PICKER MODEL

American, late 19th century, metal model potato picker machine in green painted wood box, 17-3/4 x 25-1/2 x 12-1/2 in.

Barn Door

American School, late 19th/early 20th century

carved oak and steel

Height 14 1/2 in. by Width 17 in.

Patent model for adjustable reclining chairs

1873

George A. Schastey

George A. Schastey (1839–1894) headed one of the principal cabinetmaking and decorating firms of America’s Gilded Age. Born in Merseburg, Germany, he immigrated to New York as a young boy in 1849. After fighting for the Union in the Civil War, Schastey took up work in New York’s expanding furniture trade with several of the city’s leading cabinetmakers and decorators before opening his own business in 1873.

The late nineteenth century was a period of great innovation in American cabinetmaking. In keeping with contemporary notions of technology as a means to improve comfort, Schastey filed a patent for a new kind of reclining chair, submitting this model as well as drawings. The United States Patent Office eventually removed the requirement to submit a working model as part of the patent submission and the accumulated collection was dispersed. Remarkably, Schastey’s patent model survives with its original upholstery and paper identification tags. The model’s overall form is typical of the Renaissance Revival style in vogue after the Civil War.

    Patent models for tables invented by two Chillicothe, Ohio men, John Edward Long and Valentine J. Griesheimer, early 20th Century.

    John Long was a furniture retailer, who estabilshed his shop in 1896. He’d invented several styles of folding tables - which could go from square to round, using a system of folding leaves and supports built in beneath the table - starting with a design he patented in 1899. In 1911, he announced he was quitting the retail business and going into furniture manufacturing, and called the new enterprisethe Long Furniture Company.  

       The one above with the dark stain may be a “salesman’s model” for sales associates to use in demonstrating how the table worked. It’s the one featured on the bottom half of the catalog page above.

    Another model exists which is only roughly finished. It may have been a “working model” for a design.

    In 1912 an employee of the factory, Valentine J. Griesheimer invented his own version of a folding table. 

     Griesheimer drew up a contract with Long in June 1912, specifying that if his patent was granted, Long would manufacture his table for half an interest in the patent. But the design must have not been a success, because Griesheimer wrote a note on the back of his copy of the contract on May 3, 1913, stating he’d just been told that Long was no longer going to make his patent table.