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John Stanard and the oil-stove and refrigerator records

Stanard's route reads compact cooking, food storage, buffet-car service, and cold-air circulation through two patent rows while preserving the Stanard spelling.

Why this belongs on CultureUp

Stanard 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 3 / not final rankStatus: source_reviewedSource grade: B+

Patent: 413689 / 455891: Oil-Stove; Refrigerator
Issue date: 1889-10-29 / 1891-07-14
Place: Newark, New Jersey
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: 3 / not final rank
Cluster: Food service and baking systems
Needed before promotion: Promotion language should remain limited until source-led context, assignment, co-inventor, and commercialization review is complete.
Why this record matters: Stanard's records let CultureUp read oil-stove and refrigerator patents as kitchen, rail-service, and food-preservation infrastructure without turning the patent rows into full biography.

What the public record supports

U.S. Patent No. 413689, issued October 29, 1889.
U.S. Patent No. 455891, issued July 14, 1891.
Newark, New Jersey, as recorded place.

What remains open

Additional public identity and biography source trail.
Commercial use or manufacturing evidence.
How buffet-car and domestic kitchen contexts should be sourced.

Article profile

Read the person, place, invention, and record separately.

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The patent record

413689 / 455891 was issued on 1889-10-29 / 1891-07-14 for Oil-Stove; Refrigerator.

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

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

The invention

The invention is summarized from the public patent title and source trail. Technical, market, institutional, and adoption claims stay limited to what the attached sources can support.

Business, labor, and use

Modern patent records often separate inventor, employer, assignee, licensee, and beneficiary. CultureUp keeps those categories apart instead of treating a patent as proof of ownership, wealth, adoption, or public impact.

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

CultureUp treats this as Black American patent memory only through public, reviewable sources. The page does not certify ancestry, descent, tribe, nationality, family history, or private identity.

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Patent records do not prove final rank, private identity, solo credit when co-inventors appear, employment ownership, commercialization, adoption, or later public impact.

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

Employer, assignee, and inventor status are not interchangeable. CultureUp names assignees when the patent record does.

Preserve Stanard spelling. Do not silently change to Standard except as a documented name-variant note.

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Grant trail

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backfill_candidateSprint priority 3Not public rankutility patentmedium high

413689: Oil-Stove

John Stanard / 1889-10-29

Sprint 7 backfill record. Preserve Stanard spelling and do not collapse oil-stove and refrigerator records into one claim.

Residence: Newark, New Jersey
Category: kitchen infrastructure / oil stove
Source status: medium high
Chronology handling: backfill_candidate
Cluster: Food service and baking systems
Name variant note: Preserve Stanard spelling; do not silently normalize to Standard.
Primary sources: 1 mapped

backfill_candidateSprint priority 3Not public rankutility patentmedium high

455891: Refrigerator

John Stanard / 1891-07-14

Sprint 7 backfill repeat-holder record. The refrigerator row supports cold-air and food-storage context but not full biography or commercialization.

Residence: Newark, New Jersey
Category: food storage / refrigerator
Source status: medium high
Chronology handling: backfill_candidate
Cluster: Food service and baking systems
Name variant note: Preserve Stanard spelling; do not silently normalize to Standard.
Primary sources: 1 mapped

Source trail

Claims stay tied to source limits.

Food service and baking systems

Sources for kitchen, baking, refrigeration, stove, and food-service records where use context must stay tied to patent-row evidence.

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US413689A - Oil-Stove

Google Patents / 1889 patent record

Supports: Shows John Stanard of Newark, New Jersey, connected to an oil-stove patent issued October 29, 1889.
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, sole inventorship, or personal ownership.
Last checked: 2026-06-10
Source URL: https://patents.google.com/patent/US413689A/en