Plunger Style Mixer
date: label: date made
content: 1932-1940
notes: label: Description
content: Malted milk mixer or plunger style mixer. Glass container, cylindrical, with measuring line on front, marked in 2 ounce intervals between "12 oz." and "2 oz.". Line near top of cylinder is marked: "DO NOT FILL ABOVE/THIS LINE". Bottom of cylinder is marked: PATENT NO./H (over) A/5045/2/1890307". Bottom also has sticker with "421" handwritten on it. Accompanying metal cap fits on top, into lip in cylinder, does not screw on. Flattened top, angled sides, with hole in center to allow mixer to be moved up and down for mixing action. Mixer is comprised of cone-shaped metal plate with slits around perimeter, attached in center to bent wire shaft, with bent handle at top. Top of cap is embossed: "MALTED MILK/MIXER" and stamped: "PAT'D PEND". Mark on bottom is likely the "H over A" mark of the Hazel- Atlas Glass Company (H is worn at top), of Wheeling, West Virginia.
label: Description
content: Patent Number US 1890307 A, December 6, 1932, Phillip B. Shailer and Harry P. Troendly, Wm D Gibson Company, Chicago, Illinois, for "Mixing device".
label: Description
content: Maker is Hazel-Atlas Glass Company of Wheeling, West Virginia, which had manufacturing plants in Wheeling, WV; Washington, PA; Clarksburg, WV; Zanesville, OH; Grafton, WV; Ada, OK; Pomona, CA; Blackwell, OK; Lancaster, NY; Oakland, CA; Montgomery, AL; and Plainfield, IL.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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.322793.21
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: catalog number
content: 76-FT-01.1054
label: collector/donor number
content: 421
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mixer, malted milk
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 3 1/8 in; 25.4 cm x 7.9375 cm