Rotary Food Mixer
date: label: date made
content: 1900-1909
name: label: maker
content: Ball Brothers Company
notes: label: Description
content: Rotary style egg beater or food mixer, molded metal housed in a glass mason jar. Mixing apparatus comprised of two two-winged bulb-shaped blades, bent sheet metal, connected with bent metal wire, attached at top to two cog wheels which enable the mixing action with the connected crankwheel when turned with attached wooden handle. Molded metal handle at top. Apparatus is attached to metal cap with screw threads to attach to top of mason jar.
label: Description
content: Mason jar is transparent blue glass, embossed on front: "Ball/SPECIAL"; bottom of jar is embossed with the number "8", has white sticker with "403" handwritten on it. Crankwheel is debossed: "HOLT'S IMPROVED PATENTED/MADE BY/HOLT-LYON CO TARRYTOWN, N.Y. U.S.A."
label: Description
content: Related patent: US 646736 A, April 3, 1900, Thomas Holt, Tarrytown, New York, for "Egg beater".
label: Description
content: Jar dates to 1910-1923, based on "Ball" logo.
label: Description
content: Maker is Holt-Lyon Company, Tarrytown, New York; Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company, Muncie, Indiana.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Tarrytown
label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, Muncie
label: place used
content: United States: Ohio, Columbus
topic: label: Subject
content: Food Culture
label: Subject
content: Food Processing
label: Subject
content: Kitchen utensils
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mary Eloise Green
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.322793.03
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: collector/donor number
content: 403
label: catalog number
content: 322793.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beater
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: cast iron or steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 5/8 in x 4 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 37.1475 cm x 12.065 cm x 9.525 cm