"KNOX" Fluting Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1866
label: Date made
content: 1866-11-20
label: date made
content: ca 1870-1874
label: patent date
content: 1866-11-20
notes: label: Description
content: Manually-operated fluting machine or iron with two, hollow, corrugated rollers, open at crank end, mounted horizontally one above the other on a flat, rectangular, cove-sided stand with patent and maker information cast in top. Enamelled black. Lower roller is mounted to two rectangular pedestal supports and has a wooden-handled crank at its right end; frame holding upper roller has an arched flat spring across its top and a lever at back that pivots on a separate support at back right ending with tension screw on spring. Comes with one roller slug or heater tube. All parts inscribed "18" in yellow chalk or crayon.
label: Description
content: Maker is either H. Sauerbier & Son or H. Sauerbier & Sons of Newark, NJ; firm operated under those names circa 1870-1874. Henry Sauerbier (died 1874), a cutler and edged tool and weapon maker, began the business in 1848; his sons Henry Jr. and Theodore joined him in 1870 and 1873, respectively. Sauerbier was contracted to produce infantry swords during the Civil War and also made several for presentation, but otherwise his firm specialized in leatherworking tools and machinery.
label: Description
content: Susan R. Knox of New York, NY, received U.S. Patent No. 59,913, dated November 20, 1866, and Reissue No. 3,938, dated April 26, 1870, for her "Improvements in Machines for Making Fluted Ruffles". Sauerbier was one of several foundries that produced fluters under Knox's patent.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Newark
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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 W. B. Lincoln, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.307541.0003
label: catalog number
content: 307541.0003
label: accession number
content: 307541
objectType: label: Object Name
content: iron, fluting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (finish material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (rollers material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/4 in x 11 5/8 in x 8 1/2 in; 22.225 cm x 29.5275 cm x 21.59 cm