"Polar Star" Ice Cream Freezer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1910
label: patent date
content: 1910-02-15
notes: label: Description
content: Manually-operated ice-cream freezer, consisting of a exterior cylindrical container or bucket with a hinged crossbar and an interior, cylindrical cream can with friction-fit cover that houses the dasher or scraper-frame. The shaft of the wooden-handled crank fits through the central openings in the crossbar and cream can into the square socket of the bearing attached at bottom on which the dasher also rests. Exterior bucket is pierced with two holes on opposite sides for salt-water overflow. Crossbar is stamped incuse "POLAR STAR / FREEZER / PAT FEB 15 - 1910 / NOTICE / USE ONLY ICE CREAM SALT / NEVER STOP TURNING / AFTER FREEZING BEGINS", while the cream can has "SCALD AFTER USING / DRY ON STOVE TO PREVENT RUST" around its opening. The wire-rimmed bucket is made in two pieces with folded, vertical seams and a folded-edge bottom. All components, except the bucket and cream can, are either cast or forged and detachable.
label: Description
content: Elmer I. Young of New York, NY, assignor to Polar Star Company of Philadelphia, PA, filed his application for this ice-cream freezer on February 10, 1908, and received U.S. Patent No. 949,692 for it on February 15, 1910. Young was also one of the Company's founders. Several ice-cream freezers made by different companies are named "Polar Star".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place patented
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Food Processing
label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: kitchen
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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 Kenneth E. Jewett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.251349.0194
label: catalog number
content: 251349.0194
label: accession number
content: 251349
objectType: label: Object Name
content: freezer, ice cream
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, galvanized or tinned (tub; crossbar; cream can material)
label: Physical Description
content: wire, iron (rims; handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (dasher; bearing material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (crossbar; handle shaft material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/8 in x 7 15/16 in; 20.6375 cm x 20.16125 cm