Waring Blendor
date: label: date made
content: ca 1959
name: label: maker
content: Waring Products Corp.
label: maker
content: Pyrex
notes: label: Description
content: Two-Speed electric blender made of 3 disjoint parts (A, B, C), and ice crusher (D, E). (A) is heavy, reflective, chrome-plated circular base, flared and graduated in size, with four plastic curved cone-shaped pieces of plastic mounted on top to hold blending pitcher (B) in place. Metal connection on top. Black rubber chord and two-pronged plug. Three circular rubber feet on bottom. Cord has paper tag attached, green, printed: “GE” logo, “Made in U.S.A./N.P. 133461-B/B” and “UNDERWRITER’S/LABORATORIES/INC./INSPECTED/POWER/SUPPLY CORD/No. K-790”; top of base is embossed: “WARING BLENDOR NEW YORK CITY”; front of base has metal label riveted in place under black plastic “H/ILO” switch, is printed/painted: “Waring Blendor”; bottom of base is marked: “CAT. NO. 702/WARING BLENDOR/116 VOLTS 3 AMPS./25 TO 60 CYCLE A.C.-D.C./MFD. FOR/ WARING PRODUCTS CORP./NEW YORK CITY/BY/WINSTED HDW. MFG. CO./WINSTED, CONN. U.S.A./U.S. PAT. 2109501/OTHER PATS. PEND.” and with “UL” within circle, and “SA” within circle, “510” on edge.
label: Description
content: Patent: US 2109501 A, March 1, 1938, Frederick J. Osius, for “Disintegrating mixer for producing fluent substances”, Serial No. 130,777
label: Description
content: B. Footed, quatrefoil-shaped cylinder, colorless molded glass, translucent, with finely fluted exterior walls; 4-blade metal chopper mounted on inside bottom. Recessed bottom and attachment connection in bottom center for mounting on base (A). Lip at top of container. Metal washer under interior blades is marked: “U.S. PAT. 2109501/OTHER PATS. PEND.”; underside of container is also marked, metal washer is stamped: “U.S. PAT. 2109501/OTHER PATS. PEND.”; glass is embossed: “PYREX” in all four corners, “N.Y.C. MADE IN U.S.A. FOR WARING PRODUCTS CORP.”
label: Description
content: C. Black molded lid, bakelite, quatrefoil shape, with concave circle indented on top and rounded square-shaped finial that has a debossed “W” on top. Inner edge has small flange for insertion into top of accompanying pitcher (B).
label: Description
content: D, E. Molded metal ice crusher attachment for (A). Rocket-shaped cone with enameled white exterior and brown rubber/plastic spout at base. Red plastic cap with long off white (now yellowed) plunger to push ice. Molded and recessed base to set on top of blender base (A). Flat, molded metal handles on either side, printed with “Ice Jet” and streamlines. Cap at top is molded, with debossed outline of quatrefoil in center, “WARING” debossed on either side.
label: Description
content: Patent: US 2905398 A, Sep 22, 1959, Angelo C. De Angelis, Jr and Harry E. Butterfield, assignors to Dynamics Corporation of America, for “Ice cracking apparatus”
label: Description
content: Maker is Waring Products Corp. Manufactured by Winsted HDW. Mfg. Co.; Winsted, Connecticut.
label: Description
content: This blender was introduced in 1937, as a bartender's aid. The design, in particular the silhouette of the base, shows the influence of the 1930s Art Deco or "set-back" style of skyscrapers.
label: Description
content: Glass is “Pyrex” by Corning Glass Works, Corning, New York. for Waring Products Corp.
label: Description
content: B. manufactured in N.Y.C., U.S.A.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Winsted
label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
label: place made
content: United States: New York, Corning
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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 Jane Griffin Yeingst and William H. Yeingst
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0175.01
label: accession number
content: 1988.0175
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0175.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: blender, electric
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel, chrome-plated (base material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (power cord material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (Bakelite) (cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (ice crusher spout material)
label: Measurements
content: overall-with glass jar: 14 1/8 in x 7 1/8 in; 35.8775 cm x 18.0975 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall-with ice breaker: 15 1/4 in x 7 1/8 in; 38.735 cm x 18.0975 cm
label: Measurements
content: base: 7 in x 6 7/8 in; 17.78 cm x 17.4498 cm
label: Measurements
content: jar: 8 1/8 in x 4 1/4 in; 20.6502 cm x 10.795 cm