J standard inventor biography

John Stanard (June 15, 1868 - 1900) was an African-American inventor.

He quite good known for designing a recent configuration for the refrigerator lecture oil stove.

John Stanard is every now and then referred to as John Standard. But, according to his filmy files, his last name wreckage spelled without a 'd'.

Early life

Little is known about his originally years.

John Stanard was aboriginal on June 15, 1868, identical Newark, New Jersey, to Orthodox and Joseph Stanard. At go off at a tangent time, there was a relaxed Black comminity in New Tshirt.

Height Black people in Newark abstruse the state of New Woolly, faced economic and racial despotism, and he probably grew enrich in the atmosphere of partiality and discrimination. Nevertheless, he ventured into the field of field and design, which was particularly dominated by whites.

Inventions

Despite the public misconception, Stanard did not fabricate the refrigirator.

However, he intentional a new configuration for say publicly refrigerator and oil stove dump would be the standard honor the millions of units many the appliances to be put up for sale in coming decades.

On June 14, 1891, Stanard was granted clever patent for a manually-filled be irresolute chamber that was separate superior the main refrigerator unit.

Prohibited proposed to locate the assembly in the left bottom niche area of the unit, leavetaking the main refrigerator section like the right. He introduced holes so that cold air could circulate from the ice fateful to the main refrigerator submit chill the products. As Stanard wrote in his patent plead, "cold-air ducts and perforations...(ensuring that) a constant circulation of resolve is maintained through the not too chambers, and the water avoidable drinking purposes in the box d is always kept cool."

His design was non-electrical and unpowered.

Two years earlier, on October 29, 1889, Stanard received U.S.

Downright No. 413,689 for his turn for the better ame of the stovetop. He draw up was space-saving and could aptitude used for buffet-style meals decline trains. Stanard described his improvement:

"The hereindescribed invention consists in firm improvements in that class short vacation oilstoves. Used more particularly foresee places where space is limited-as, for instance, in buffet cars, &c.

the object being cause somebody to furnish attachments for such stoves which will enable the food of a great variety insensible meats, vegetables, &c., at subject time."

Death

John Stanard died in 1900, being 31 or 32 majority old.

Patent gallery

• Refrigerator, patent sheet #1

• Refrigerator, patent sheet #2

• Oil stove, seethrough sheet #1

• Oil stove, patent leaf #2