Sunbeam Coffeemaster
date: label: date made
content: ca 1946
name: label: maker
content: Sunbeam Corp.
notes: label: Description
content: Vacuum coffee maker. Metal body (A & B), chrome-plated, double-bulb-shaped, molded plastic handles, black, arched with pointed tops. Molded plastic lid (C), black, circular, stacked, with knob at top, flange to sit into upper “brew pot”, which has interior circular metal filter at bottom and is held on top of lower pot with black rubber gasket. Lower pot has engraved art deco style line motif at front and back of metal body, which has an attached molded plastic base, black, with four small legs, streamlined. Detachable black rubber two-prong electric cord (D) attaches under handle. Accompanying stand (E), for holding upper brew-pot and interior metal filter, upside down (to dry), bent metal wire, three tiers, two circular metal loops, small circular metal drip catcher at bottom, circular bent metal wire base.
label: Description
content: Designed by Alfonso Ianelli (1888-1965), a designer in the early to mid-twentieth century best known for his consumer product design and collaboration with Frank Lloyd Wright on his 1914 Midway Gardens project early in his career. He also taught industrial design at the Art Institute of Chicago.
label: Description
content: "HIGH/LOW" switch at front, bottom of lower pot (A). Printed on bottom: “Sunbeam/COFFEEMASTER/MODEL C30C/FOR A.C. ONLY/MADE IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA/SUNBEAM CORPORATION/CHICAGO, U.S.A. – TORONTO, CANADA/U.S. PAT. 1994323 2223450, 2312555/2345262, 2345264 2345265/DES. 113512 113513, 113514/CANADA PATENTED 1939-42-44/C.S.A. APPROVAL NO. 8402/ 110-120 V. 1000 W./CAUTION/DO NOT IMMERSE VESSEL IN WATER/KEEP SWITCH DRY/USE WITH WALL OR BASE/RECEPTACLE ONLY”; “UL” (United Laboratories, 1894-present) mark.
label: Description
content: Patents:
label: Description
content: US 1994323 S, Mar 12, 1935, Inez H. Pierce, for “Coffee extracting device”
label: Description
content: US 2223450 S, Dec 3, 1940, for “Coffee maker”; US 2345265 S, Mar 28, 1944, for “Filter assembly for coffee makers”, Ivar Jepson and Eric Bylund
label: Description
content: 2312555 , Mar 2, 1943, for “Coffee maker”; US 2345264 S, Mar 28, 1944, for “Coffee maker”, Ivar Jepson
label: Description
content: 2345262, Mar 28, 1944, Eric Bylund, Ivar Jepson, and Ludvik J. Koci, for “Filter assembly for coffee makers”
label: Description
content: 113512, February 28, 1939; 113513, Feb 28, 1939, for “Design for a coffee pot”; 113514, Feb 28, 1939, for “Design for a coffee maker bowl”, Alfonso Iannelli
label: Description
content: Maker is Sunbeam Corporation, Chicago, Illinois.
label: Description
content: All patents are held by assignors to Chicago Flexible Shaft Co., founded in the early 1890s by John K. Stewart and Thomas J. Clark, primarily manufacturing mechanical horse clippers and sheep shearers. In 1946 Chicago Flexible Shaft Co. became Sunbeam Corporation.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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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 Edgar Wolf, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0076.07
label: accession number
content: 1988.0076
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0076.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: maker, coffee, electric
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (handle; base; cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (electric cord material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, coffee maker: 12 3/4 in x 7 in x 6 1/2 in; 32.385 cm x 17.78 cm x 16.51 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, stand: 5 3/4 in x 5 1/4 in; 14.605 cm x 13.335 cm