Ice-Cream Disher
date: label: date made
content: 1880 - 1900
label: erroneous patent date
content: 1876-05-03
label: patent date
content: 1878-11-12
name: label: maker
content: Clad, Valentine
notes: label: Description
content: Key-scraper cornet or cone disher with a reinforced, capped tubular handle attached to a seamless conical bowl below its plain rim; lapped seam handle and deep, U-shape angled brace are both soft soldered. Mechanism features an open heart-shaped key at bowl apex that turns the V-shaped scraper; bolt soldered to blade, not removable. Handle is stamped incuse near end "5" (5 scoops to a quart) above "V. CLAD (arched) / PHILA / 123 S 11S\T (curved)" in serif letters; embossed end cap reads "CLEWELL'S (arched) / PAT. / MAY 3 / 1876 / V. CLAD. MAKER" in sans serif letters inside a dotted border.
label: Description
content: William Clewell of Reading, PA, received U.S. Patent No. 209,751 on November 12, 1878 for his "ice-cream measure and mold".
label: Description
content: Maker is V. Clad Co. of Philadelphia, PA; founded by Valentine Clad in 1853 and incorporated as V. Clad & Sons, Inc. in 1896. Clad specialized in manufacturing ice-cream and confectionary machinery and equipment, including molds. The firm moved from its original location on South 11th St. to Sixteenth and Callowhill in 1913.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place owned
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
label: place owned
content: United States: Maryland, Silver Spring
topic: label: Subject
content: Food Culture
label: Subject
content: Kitchen utensils
label: Subject
content: Patented
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Theodore J. Jansen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.0115.01
label: catalog number
content: 1995.0115.01
label: accession number
content: 1995.0115
objectType: label: Object Name
content: disher, ice-cream
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (bowl material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron, tinned sheet (handle; brace material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, white (scraper material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 8 1/8 in x 2 7/8 in; 9.525 cm x 20.6375 cm x 7.3025 cm