Historic Americana
Original 1870 United States Patent Office Handmade Model For An “Improved Bread Making Machine”
April 5th, 1870-Dated Patent Office Tag, On an original Handmade United States Patent Office Model of an "Improved Bread Making Machine," Very Fine.
This small scale and rather complex model of a Machine for making Loaves of Bread, which was submitted for Patent protection is made of tin and iron mechanical parts and wooden rollers all mounted on a wooden base. The Bread Machine itself measures about 3.75” tall at its tallest point and 11.75” long x 8” wide at the base. It is a handmade model of a “Bread Machine” and is titled as such on the original Patent Tag which is included. The model offered here is the original Patent Model as submitted to the U.S. Patent Office by the inventor John E. Hawkins. It came to us with the original Patent Office Tag dated April 5th, 1870 and with the Patent Number as No. 101615. Also included is the original submission tag dated March 19th, 1870. This fascinating and quite intricate Model was submitted to the U.S. Patent Office as an official Patent Model and is likely unique. It is only lacking the tin cover which fit over the conical shaped tub where the bread dough was formed and held at its end the cutting mechanism. This Model also lacks a separate spool that would have been mounted to hold the far end of the cloth belt that moved the cut loaves away from the machine, as well as the cloth belt that connected the wooden rollers beneath the tin tub (we compared the Model to the drawings in the Patent Documents to understand just what parts are missing). This 1870 Patent Model is 100% guaranteed to be the original Model that was submitted to the United States Patent Office as part of the Patent Application process. We have included a copy of its original Patent Papers as further documentation.