Electric Iron
date: label: date made
content: ca 1941
name: label: maker
content: Knapp-Monarch Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Electric flatiron, dry, no steam function. Oval-shaped soleplate, pointed, flat heel. Chrome-plated metal body, bent metal handle with wooden grip, painted black. Fabric selector dial on top of body, molded black plastic with white writing, streamlines. Detachable power cord (B) attaches to body (A) at back of handle. Black woven fabric cord with white specks, coiled silver wire, and molded plastic two-prong plug. Extended heel rest is debossed on top: “DOVERITE/Automatic”; underside is stamped: “UL/FOR USE ON A.C. ONLY/PAT. NOS. 2,039,222/1,951,176/2,136,763 PATSPEND/V.115 W.1000/11-41 CAT. NO. 350-R/KNAPP-MONARCH CO. ST.LOUIS,U.S.A.” Soleplate is scratched throughout, abraded.
label: Description
content: Patents:
label: Description
content: 2,039,222: April 28, 1936, Russell I. Huffman, assignor to Dover Manufacturing Company, Dover, Ohio, for “Sadiron shell and rest construction’
label: Description
content: 1,951,176: March 13, 1934, John E. Smith, assignor to Knapp-Monarch Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, Missouri, for “Coating machine and process”
label: Description
content: 2,136,763: November 15, 1938, Howard A. Smith, assignor to Knapp-Monarch Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, Missouri, for “Heating plate structure”
label: Description
content: This iron is from the Hoover Company Sample collection, North Canton, Ohio, including samples by Knapp-Monarch Company, St. Louis (Missouri), which was bought by Hoover in 1969. It is noted: “Hoover Company Collection tag Sample 25382/Rec’d. Apr. 72/Model 350-R”; another tag: “DOVERITE #350-R DRY IRON/MADE BY KM IN NOV. ‘41”.
label: Description
content: Maker is the Dover Manufacturing Company and the Knapp-Monarch Manufacturing Company. Founded circa 1916, Dover Manufacturing, of Dover, Ohio, produced electric flatirons until 1936, when the Knapp-Monarch Company purchased the company and it ceased to exist. The Knapp-Monarch Company, St. Louis, Missouri, founded in 1925 as A.S. Knapp and Company, not as a manufacturer, but to sell products. The company merged with manufacturer Monarch Company of Webster City, Iowa, in 1928. In 1969 the company was acquired by the Hoover Company.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
topic: label: Subject
content: appliances
label: Subject
content: Daily Life
label: Subject
content: electricity
label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: Laundry
label: Subject
content: Patented
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Hoover Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0835.05
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0835.05
label: accession number
content: 1991.0835
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flatiron, electric
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/8 in x 4 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in; 11.1125 cm x 11.43 cm x 21.59 cm