"EAGLE" Fluting Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1875 - 1891
label: patent date
content: 1875-11-02
notes: label: Description
content: Manually-operated fluting machine or iron with two, hollow, corrugated rollers, open at crank end, mounted horizontally one above the other to a single arm on a flat rectangular base with four splayed ogee feet; model and patent date are cast in top and maker across underside. Wooden-handled crank at right end of lower roller; frame holding upper roller is fastened to a vertical arm connected at bottom through a slot in base to a pull tab at front right that lifts the roller. Enamelled black. Top of mount and stand underside inscribed "17" in yellow chalk or crayon. Machine only; no tongs or slugs.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of W. B. Lincoln, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.307541.0002
label: catalog number
content: 307541.0002
label: accession number
content: 307541
objectType: label: Object Name
content: iron, fluting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (finish material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (rollers material)
label: Physical Description
content: beech or maple (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 11 in x 4 3/4 in; 13.335 cm x 27.94 cm x 12.065 cm