Freezer Container
date: label: Date made
content: Dates from the 1950s or 1960s.
name: label: maker
content: Bernardin Bottle Cap Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Rectangular aluminum container with a press-on lid. The “BerNARdin / SPEED-E-FREEZE” inscription, in raised letters, refers to the Bernardin Bottle Cap Co. in Evansville, Indiana. The New York Times took notice of this container in July 1950, terming it the “newest piece of home-freezing equipment this summer.” The firm began production two months ago, the paper noted, and are now having trouble filling orders.
label: Description
content: Alfred Bernardin was born in France in 1845 and came to the U.S. a few years later. He eventually settled in Indiana and went to work manufacturing mineral waters. After receiving a patent in 1885, he established the Bernardin Bottle Cap Co.
label: Description
content: Ref: Winthrop L. Brown, “Boxes for Freezing Materials,” U.S. Patent 2,767,878 (Oct. 23, 1956), assigned to the Bernardin Bottle Cap Co. The application was filed in 1950.
label: Description
content: Jane Nickerson, “News in Freezing and Canning,” New York Times (July 2, 1950), p. SM13.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: George A. Norton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0010.01
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0010.01
label: accession number
content: 2001.0010
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Freezer container
label: Object Name
content: Freezer Container
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 cm x 12.8 cm x 10.2 cm; 3 9/16 in x 5 1/16 in x 4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 9/16 in x 5 3/16 in x 4 5/16 in; 9.04875 cm x 13.17625 cm x 10.95375 cm