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Food and Kitchen Tools in Black Patent Memory

A noindex source-review cluster for food preparation, kitchen labor, baking, serving, and domestic-tool patents that need identity-led promotion review.

Cluster thesis

Food and kitchen tools

Food and kitchen patents can show how household work, commercial food service, and domestic technology entered the public patent record. They cannot, by themselves, prove a full biography, racial identity, household use, or commercial adoption.

Patent records

Source-led record cards

These cards show patent-record facts and review status without promoting final holder rank.

Grant rank 10Holder rank 8utility patentmedium high

77494: Improvement in Corn-Huskers, Shellers

Martha Jones / 1868-05-05

Patent row anchors a Black women inventors lane, but biography and identity context remain caveated.

Residence
Amelia County, Virginia
Category
agricultural machinery
Source status
medium high
Primary sources
2 mapped
Grant rank 14Holder rank 12utility patentmedium high

140253: Improvement in Cooking Apparatus

Mary Jones De Leon / 1873-06-24

Patent row supports Black women inventors and domestic technology; identity and biography remain caveated.

Residence
Baltimore, Maryland
Category
domestic / cooking technology
Source status
medium high
Primary sources
2 mapped
chronology_gap_candidateSprint priority 1Not public rankutility patentunder review

170460: Improvement in Biscuit-Cutters

Alexander P. Ashbourne / 1875-11-30

Chronology gap candidate, not a public rank correction. Patent row is verified; identity evidence remains pending.

Residence
Oakland, California
Category
domestic food tools / baking technology
Source status
under review
Chronology handling
chronology_gap_candidate
Cluster
Food and kitchen tools
Primary sources
1 mapped
chronology_gap_candidateSprint priority 3Not public rankutility patentunder review

292821: Egg-Beater

Willis Johnson / 1884-02-05

Chronology gap candidate, not a public rank correction. Identity-source ledger is required before indexable promotion.

Residence
Cincinnati, Ohio
Category
kitchen labor / food processing
Source status
under review
Chronology handling
chronology_gap_candidate
Cluster
Food and kitchen tools
Primary sources
1 mapped
chronology_gap_candidateSprint priority 5Not public rankutility patentunder review

470005: Pastry-Fork

Anna M. Mangin / 1892-03-01

Chronology gap candidate, not a public rank correction. Identity-source ledger is required before indexable promotion.

Residence
Woodside, Queens, New York
Category
Black women inventors / kitchen labor
Source status
under review
Chronology handling
chronology_gap_candidate
Cluster
Food and kitchen tools
Primary sources
1 mapped
Backlog priority 7Not chronological rankutility patentmedium high

473653: Ironing-Board

Sarah Boone / 1892-04-26

Backlog priority row, not a chronological rank. The patent row supports clothing-care technology while biography and first-language stay caveated.

Residence
New Haven, Connecticut
Category
domestic technology / clothing care
Source status
medium high
Backlog status
indexable_profile_candidate
Primary sources
1 mapped
chronology_gap_candidateSprint priority 6Not public rankutility patentunder review

576395: Ice-Cream Mold and Disher

Alfred L. Cralle / 1897-02-02

Chronology gap candidate, not a public rank correction. Patent row is strong; identity source must be ledgered before indexable promotion.

Residence
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Category
food service / one-handed serving tool
Source status
under review
Chronology handling
chronology_gap_candidate
Cluster
Food and kitchen tools
Primary sources
1 mapped

Proof limits

What this cluster can and cannot prove.

What these records can prove

  • Patent numbers, issue dates, titles, and recorded places where the patent row includes them.
  • Invention categories such as biscuit cutters, egg beaters, pastry forks, ice-cream dishers, cooking apparatus, and ironing boards.
  • A source-led queue for food and domestic-tool profiles.

What remains under review

  • Identity evidence for the new 1875-1899 candidates.
  • Black women patentees sequence language.
  • Commercialization, household use, business history, and community memory.

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