Electric Sandwich Toaster
date: label: date made
content: ca 1939
name: label: maker
content: Sunbeam Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Electric sandwich toaster or grill. Chrome-plated metal body, flat, rectangular top on four straight legs with flared, geometric drape-style ornament, incised with linear decoration. Squares of black Masonite attached to interior of each foot. Two flat grill-tops, open grates, each with black bakelite handles on either end, Art Deco “skyscraper” style, and connected on one long side, clamshell style. Grills have attached arm which allows them to “flip” sides. Grills sit atop base, which has an open heating unit: metal coils strung through ceramic plugs. Entire body and grill sides are incised with scroll motifs and interlocking diamond bands. Two prongs to attach power cord in front, cord missing. Plug hood is debossed: “Sunbeam/NO. 4/PAT. NO. 1465007/VOLTS 110-120 WATTS 660”.
label: Description
content: Patent:
label: Description
content: US 1465007 A, August 14, 1923, Ernest Sjolin, assignor to Chicago Flexible Shaft Company, for “Electric toaster”
label: Description
content: Another version of this toaster was also sold with the same ornamentation on the body, but with fluted Doric columns for legs (see 1992.0338.49)
label: Description
content: Patent is held by assignor to Chicago Flexible Shaft Co.; maker is Sunbeam Corporation, Chicago, Illinois, originally founded in the early 1890s as Chicago Flexible Shaft Co. by John K. Stewart and Thomas J. Clark, primarily manufacturing mechanical horse clippers and sheep shearers. In 1946 Chicago Flexible Shaft Co. became Sunbeam Corporation.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: appliances
label: Subject
content: Food Culture
label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Joyce Barth & Florence E. Scuderi
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0338.21
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0338.21
label: accession number
content: 1992.0338
objectType: label: Object Name
content: toaster
label: Other Terms
content: Toaster; Electric
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel, chrome-plated (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (Bakelite) (handles; pads under feet material)
label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (heating element material)
label: Physical Description
content: wire, iron (heating coils material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/4 in x 11 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in; 10.795 cm x 28.575 cm x 16.51 cm