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George T. Sampson and the clothes-drier patent

Sampson's clothes-drier record belongs in domestic labor history: drying frames, stove heat, smoke/fire risk, and household technology without absolute-first overclaiming.

Why this belongs on CultureUp

Sampson is a public-record memory story.

This belongs on CultureUp because the patent record connects invention to place, public institutions, work systems, laboratories, employers, federal or corporate assignment, and the limits of public records.

Sprint 7 priority 4 / not final rankStatus: source_reviewedSource grade: B+

Patent: 476416: Clothes-Drier
Issue date: 1892-06-07
Place: Dayton, Ohio
Record strength: Patent-record facts are attached with at least one public context source. CultureUp still separates patent proof from biography, adoption, commercialization, and identity claims.
Identity evidence: Public context source attached where available; CultureUp does not use the patent row alone as race, ancestry, lineage, or Indigenous Black identity proof.
Sprint priority: 4 / not final rank
Cluster: Domestic labor and home tools
Needed before promotion: Promotion language should remain limited until source-led context, assignment, co-inventor, and commercialization review is complete.
Why this record matters: The record shows how household work and drying technology enter the patent trail, while CultureUp avoids unsupported first-dryer language.

What the public record supports

U.S. Patent No. 476416, issued June 7, 1892.
Dayton, Ohio, as recorded place.
Clothes-drier mechanism as domestic-labor technology.

What remains open

Additional public identity source context.
Adoption, manufacturing, or household-use evidence.
Broader clothes-drying history before using first-language.

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The patent record

476416 was issued on 1892-06-07 for Clothes-Drier.

The person in the record

The attached public context sources support a reader-facing profile frame. Any deeper life history, family record, school record, employment file, or community memory needs its own source trail.

Place attached to the claim

Dayton, Ohio is the public place anchor used for this route. CultureUp does not infer local family continuity from the patent row alone.

The invention

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Business, labor, and use

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What the record cannot prove

The patent record does not by itself prove full biography, race, ancestry, Indigenous Black identity, commercialization, institutional adoption, economic benefit, modern product lineage, or community memory.

Identity and correction note

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Indexable as a source-led Sprint 7 profile with visible source limits.

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backfill_candidateSprint priority 4Not public rankutility patentmedium high

476416: Clothes-Drier

George T. Sampson / 1892-06-07

Sprint 7 backfill record. The patent row supports a clothes-drier mechanism near stoves, not an absolute first-dryer claim.

Residence: Dayton, Ohio
Category: domestic labor / clothes drying
Source status: medium high
Chronology handling: backfill_candidate
Cluster: Domestic labor and home tools
Primary sources: 1 mapped

Source trail

Claims stay tied to source limits.

Domestic labor and home tools

Sources for household, repair, cleaning, drying, and care-work tools where CultureUp keeps labor history separate from unsupported first-language.

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US476416A - Clothes-Drier

Google Patents / 1892 patent record

Supports: Shows George T. Sampson of Dayton, Ohio, connected to a clothes-drier patent issued June 7, 1892.
Limit: Patent records verify invention data, patent number, date, title, and recorded place. They do not by themselves prove full race/identity, ancestry, biography, commercialization, public memory, economic benefit, absolute first status, sole inventorship, or personal ownership.
Last checked: 2026-06-10
Source URL: https://patents.google.com/patent/US476416A/en