Egg Beater
date: label: date made
content: ca 1903
notes: label: Description
content: "Taplin's Dover Pattern Improved" handheld, manual rotary egg beater. Features a central handle with horizontal oval grip above an offset shank or stem, to which are fixed two small rotary pinions or cogwheels, each housing one end of a bulb-shaped wire frame and one bulb-shaped beater or blade, for a total of six wings; larger vertical drive-wheel mounted to handle front has a small turned wooden grip and gear-teeth on its inner face that engage with the front pinion. Drive wheel marked on outer face "PAT. APRIL 14, 1903" (rest illegible), and on inner face "MADE IN U.S.A.".
label: Description
content: Patent Number US 725507 A, by Clarence A. Taplin, Forestville, Connecticut, assignor Taplin Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Connecticut, for "EGG-BEATER".
label: Description
content: Maker is Taplin Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Connecticut.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Bristol
label: DELETE
content: United States: Connecticut, Bristol
label: place owned
content: United States: Ohio, Columbus
topic: label: Subject
content: Cooking
label: Subject
content: Food Processing
label: Subject
content: Kitchen utensils
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mary Eloise Green
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.322793.58
label: catalog number
content: 322793.58
label: accession number
content: 322793
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beater
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (drive wheel grip material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (handle; gears material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, tinned sheet (beaters material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/8 in x 8 7/8 in x 3 3/8 in; 6.0325 cm x 22.5425 cm x 8.5725 cm