Fluting Iron Roller
date: label: Date made
content: 1872-01-09
label: patent date
content: 1872-01-09
notes: label: Description
content: Large, conical, corrugated roller with removable slug or heater from a full-size patent model (U.S. Patent No. 122,607) of a fluting machine, made by Jacob F. Hayen on Buffalo, NY, and patented on January 9, 1872; missing its matching, flat, curved, corrugated bed. Roller frame has a wood handle with brass ferrule and a hinged arm at wide end with pawn-shaped knob secured closed by a flat spring riveted through the top of frame. Hollow, conical slug has an arched lifting handle for easy insertion and removal. No marks on object, but there are two torn pieces of a darkened paper tag printed "1871" along top that are taped together and tied through the knob with red or purple wove ribbon, and two more tags (a circular white paper tag tied to roller frame and a loose, old paper tag inside the slug) that are both inscribed with patent information.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Buffalo
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.089797.0099
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 122607
label: catalog number
content: 089797.0099
objectType: label: Object Name
content: roller, fluting iron
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (roller, ferrule material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron, forged (roller frame, slug material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (spring material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 6 3/8 in x 9 3/4 in; 9.525 cm x 16.1925 cm x 24.765 cm