Food Mixer
date: label: date made
content: 1939-1943
name: label: maker
content: Washburn Company
notes: label: Description
content: Bowl beater or food mixer. Curved, cone shaped mixing end, metal mesh with diamond-shaped openings throughout, with metal shaft which attaches to single cog wheel that connects to top crankwheel with unpainted wooden handle above lid. Arched bent metal handle attached to metal lid, which sits inside inner lip at top of clear glass bowl, with molded pattern around bottom outside. Bottom of bowl is embossed: "ANDROCK/PAT/PENDING/CAPY/5102/MADE IN USA" and has white sticker with "411" handwritten on it. Crankwheel is stamped: "ANDROCK PATENT PENDING/MADE IN/UNITED STATES OF AMERICA".
label: Description
content: Related patents:
label: Description
content: Patent number US 2210810 A, August 6, 1940, Howard W. Hindes, Worcester, Massachusetts, assignor to The Washburn Company of Worcester, Massachusetts, for "Bearing and frame construction for hand-operated beaters".
label: Description
content: One year later Patent number US 2265533 A, December 9, 1941, John R. Lawrence, assignor to The Washburn Company of Worcester, Massachusetts, for "Beater", which matches this bowl beater.
label: Description
content: Maker is The Washburn Company, Worcester, Massachusetts, which produced this product under the ANDROCK line.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
label: place used
content: United States: Ohio, Columbus
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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.322793.11
label: catalog number
content: 76-FT-01.1044
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: collector/donor number
content: 411
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mixer, food
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (cover material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 4 3/8 in; 17.78 cm x 11.1125 cm