Castle Home Pasteurizer
date: label: date made
content: 1883-1903
label: date made
content: 1899-1903
name: label: maker
content: Wilmot Castle Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Copper pasteurizer with handle, pouring spout, and filling funnel. The pasteurizer has six cylindrical openings in the top to fit the nursing bottles. An inscription on the side of this pasteurizer reads “WILMOT CASTLE & CO. ROCHESTER, N.Y.” Six glass nursing bottles with rubber nipples are included with the pasteurizer. Price for the six-bottle, copper pasteurizer was $5.50 in 1914.
label: Description
content: Directions for use as stated in <i>Good Housekeeping</i> magazine (April 1915): The jacket is filled with water to the "over-flow," heated to the boiling point, and quickly removed to a table. About two ounces of cool water is then poured into each cylinder, and the nursing-bottles containing the modified milk are corked with cotton and placed in the tubes. After thirty minutes the milk will have been pasteurized at 140-145 degrees F. for twenty minutes, and should then be rapidly cooled by running a stream of cold water into the filling funnel and allowing it to over-flow. Store bottles in the ice-box until ready to be heated for use."
label: Description
content: Wilmot Castle & Co. was established by Wilmot V. Castle (1855-1941) in Rochester, N.Y., in 1883, and incorporated as Wilmot Castle Co. in 1903. The firm manufactured sterilizers and bacteriological apparatus for laboratory, medical, dental and hospital use as well as for the home.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
topic: label: associated subject
content: Infant Feeding
label: associated subject
content: Infant Nutrition
label: associated subject
content: Infant Care
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0883.217
label: accession number
content: 1978.0883
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0883.217
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sterilizer, bottle, baby
label: Object Name
content: pasteurizer, infant food
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass, ?, transparent (bottles(6) material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (nipples(6) material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 3/8 in x 9 in x 8 7/8 in; 26.3525 cm x 22.86 cm x 22.5425 cm