Archimedes Style Mixer
date: label: date made
content: 1915-1925
name: label: maker
content: Borden Company
notes: label: Description
content: Archimedes style beater or whip. Fan-style mixing end, three blades, bent metal wire, which twists to form shaft and forms loop at top for hanging. Turned knob, wooden, unpainted with metal cap at bottom, wraps around twisted wire shaft, when moved up or down, creates mixing action by spinning whip. Metal cap with screw threads to attach at top to accompanying glass jar, clear glass. Jar is cylindrical, straight sides, with molded screw threads at top to attach cap. Front of jar is embossed: "Borden's"; bottom of jar is embossed: "2108-5/PAT. MAR. 30TH 1915./U.S.A./1133413" with another mark: backwards "C" overlapping upside down "V". Bottom also has white sticker attached with "418" handwritten on it. Side of jar is embossed with measurements in ounces and pints.
label: Description
content: This beater was a promotional product manufactured by Borden, Inc., a manufacturer of milk, pasta, and snack foods founded in 1857 and based out of Columbus, Ohio. The company was active until the 1990s.
label: Description
content: Related Patent: US 1133413 A, March 30, 1915, Turnet (or Turney) H. Stough, Jeannette, Pennsylvania, for "Kitchen utensil".
label: Description
content: Maker is Borden, Inc.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Columbus
label: place used
content: United States: Ohio, Columbus
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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 Mary Eloise Green
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.322793.18
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: catalog number
content: 76-FT-01.1051
label: collector/donor number
content: 418
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beater, fan shape
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 1/4 in x 3 3/8 in; 43.815 cm x 8.5725 cm