American Beauty Iron
date: label: date made
content: ca 1916
name: label: maker
content: American Electrical Heater Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Electric flatiron. Metal, triangular-shaped body (A). No fabric guide or temperature control, handle comprised of bent metal, with molded plastic grip, horizontal, black. Two metal prongs at base of handle, above heel, no cord attached. Small, triangular metal plate attached to top of body, silver, embossed/printed: “AMERICAN/BEAUTY/IRON”; heel is stamped/imprinted: “AMERICAN”/BEAUTY NO 6 ½ B/AMERICAN ELECTRIC HEATER CO./DETROIT, U.S.A./PATENTED/MAY 19 1908/MAY 19 1914/FEB, 1 1916/VOLTS 105-114 WATTS 525” and with “LMP” diamond trademark.
label: Description
content: Detachable stand comprised of two pieces of sheet metal, triangular shape, stacked one on top of the other, separated by three short metal cylinders, with three metal half-spheres for feet. Stamped into top: “AMERICAN/BEAUTY/IRON” in triangle, “MADE BY/AMERICAN ELECTRIC HEATER CO./DETROIT, U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Patents:
label: Description
content: US 887947 A, May 19 1908, Frank Kuhn, Detroit, Michigan, for “Electrically-heated sad-iron”
label: Description
content: US 1096929 A, May 19 1914, Frank Kuhn, Detroit, Michigan, for “Electrically-heated sad-iron”
label: Description
content: US 1170168 A, February 1, 1916, Frank Kuhn and Frank E. Shailor, assignors for American Electrical Heater Company, Detroit, Michigan, for “Connector for electrically-heated instruments”
label: Description
content: Maker is American Electric Heater Company, circa 1890-present. This iron was the first of the "American Beauty" irons the company produced, introduced in 1912.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
topic: label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: Laundry
label: Subject
content: Patent Medicine
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Edgar Wolf, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.3012.08
label: nonaccession number
content: 1988.3012
label: catalog number
content: 1988.3012.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flatiron, electric
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (body; sole; handle mounts material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (Bakelite) (grip material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/4 in x 7 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in; 15.875 cm x 19.05 cm x 12.065 cm