Rotary Food Mixer
date: label: date made
content: 1910-1930
notes: label: Description
content: Handheld rotary whip or food mixer, metal and wood. Large crankwheel mounted on upper framework, set vertically above a smaller cog wheel which enables the mixing motion when cranked by the crank grip, an attached knob-shaped unpainted wood handle. One flat mixing component, sheet metal, pierced throughout with circular holes, which rotates. Knob-shaped unpainted wooden handle at top. Outer side of crank wheel is marked:"DUNLAP'S/SANITARY/CREAM & EGG WHIP/NO SPATTER NO WASTE/COLUMBIA METAL PRODUCTS CO./CHICAGO U.S.A./SOLE MFRS & DISTRIBUTERS/PD/SEPT, 1916/FEB. 26, 190(missing) MAY 15, 1906".
label: Description
content: The only Patent Number listed for a beater or whip under this company is US 1744445 A, January 21, 1930, William J. Casey, Chicago, Illinois, assignor of Columbia Metal Products Company, Chicago, Illinois. It is possible that the dates stamped on the crankwheel are for prior patents that led to this invention.
label: Description
content: Maker is Columbia Metal Products Company, Chicago, Illinois.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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.322793.09
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: collector/donor number
content: 409
label: catalog number
content: 322793.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beater
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 11 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 7.62 cm x 29.21 cm x 11.43 cm