Sunbeam Model T-20 Electric Toaster
date: label: date made
content: ca 1949
name: label: maker
content: Sunbeam Corp.
notes: label: Description
content: Double slice electric toaster. Metal, chrome-plated, with molded plastic side handles and base, black. Rectangular body, two long rectangular openings at top, interior heating elements and wires visible, decorative line motif engraved on both longer sides. Black molded plastic handles on either of the shorter sides, flat tops, debossed with “Sunbeam” logo. Rubber electric cord with two-pronged plug on one end, black plastic temperature knob on opposite end, debossed “DARKER LIGHTER” Bottom of toaster has attached silver metal plate, debossed “Sunbeam” logo at top, serif font, and engraved below: “MODEL T-20/MADE IN/UNITED STATES AMERICA/SUNBEAM CORPORATION/CHICAGO, U.S.A. TORONTO, CANADA/PATENTS 2197221, 2254687/2332518, 2347385, 2361446/2390947 2459169 2459170/DES. PAT./OTHER PATENTS PENDING/CANADA PATENTED 1942, ’44, ‘47/CSA APPROVAL NUMBER 8402/VOLTS 110-120 WATTS 1275/FOR A.C. ONLY/CAUTION/USE WITH WALL OR BASE RECEPTACLE ONLY/UL/OPEN COVER AND THOROUGHLY BRUSH/AND SHAKE OUT CRUMBS FREQUENTLY/PULL OUT WALL PLUG/BEFORE OPENING THIS COVER”
label: Description
content: Patents:
label: Description
content: 2197221, April 16, 1940, Ludvik j. Koci, for “Toaster and the like”
label: Description
content: 2254687, September 2, 1941, Ludvik j. Koci, for “Thermostat”
label: Description
content: 2332518, October 26, 1943, Ludvik j. Koci, assignor to Chicago Flexible Shaft Company, Chicago, Illinois, for “Thermostat”
label: Description
content: 2347385, April 25, 1944, Ivar Jepson and Horace C. Wright, assignors to Chicago Flexible Shaft Company, Chicago, Illinois, for “Cooking device”
label: Description
content: 2361446, October 31, 1944, Roy J. Anderson, assignor to Chicago Flexible Shaft Company, Chicago, Illinois, for “Automatic bread toaster”
label: Description
content: 2390947, December 11, 1945, Ludvik j. Koci, for “Compensating thermostat”
label: Description
content: 2459169, January 18, 1949, Ludvik j. Koci , assignor to Sunbeam Corporation, for “Radiation thermostat control for toaster”
label: Description
content: 2459170, January 18, 1949, Ludvik j. Koci , assignor to Sunbeam Corporation, for “Toaster control mechanism”
label: Description
content: Maker is Sunbeam Corporation, Chicago, Illinois. 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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.3118.1
label: nonaccession number
content: 1988.3118
label: catalog number
content: 1988.3118.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: toaster, electric
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, chrome-plated (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (cord material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in x 12 7/8 in x 7 1/8 in; 18.415 cm x 32.7025 cm x 18.0975 cm