Rotary Food Mixer
date: label: date made
content: 1921-1929
notes: label: Description
content: Bowl beater/mixer or churn. Mixing apparatus is comprised of two four-winged, bulb-shaped mixing components, bent sheet metal, connected with bent metal wire, attached at top to two small cog wheels. Large crankwheel sits between cog wheels, and when turned with coiled metal handle creates mixing action. Mixing apparatus is attached to lid, which comes apart into two pieces. Bent metal handle at top. Accompanying mixing bowl is clear glass, fluted sides, pedestal bottom. Based on contemporary advertisements, this may be missing a pouring spout attachment.
label: Description
content: Crankwheel is marked: "LADD BEATER/OCT. 18, 1921/OTHER PAT'S PEND./NO.1/NEW YORK, U.S.A./UNITED ROYALTIES CORP." Bottom of bowl has white sticker with "406" handwritten on it. Bowl pedestal is embossed: "'LADD MIXER CHURN'/NO.1"
label: Description
content: Maker is Ladd/United Royalties Corporation.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
label: place used
content: United States: Ohio, Columbus
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.322793.06
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: collector/donor number
content: 406
label: catalog number
content: 322793.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beater
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (bowl material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/2 in x 5 in; 31.75 cm x 12.7 cm