"ROYAL 80" Fluting Machine
date: label: date made
content: ca 1876
label: Date made
content: 1876-03-14
label: patent date
content: 1876-03-14
notes: label: Description
content: Manually-operated fluting machine or iron with two, hollow, corrugated rollers, open at crank end, mounted horizontally one above the other to a central stem on a flat, rectangular, ogee-sided stand; model name cast in top of roller frame, while patent date and maker are across stand underside. Roller frame connects both rollers; lever at right lifts the upper roller and table in front of lower roller. Enamelled black with a gilt band and red striping on stand; floral decal on roller frame table. Comes with two C clamps, three roller slugs or heater tubes, and a plain weave white cotton drawstring bag or pouch. All parts inscribed "14" in yellow chalk or crayon.
label: Description
content: Maker is Perin & Gaff Manufacturing Co., of Cincinnati, OH. The firm (partnership of Oliver Perin [1821-1880] and James W. Gaff [1816-1879]) relied on convict labor and employed several hundred inmates from the Southern Indiana Penitentiary at Jefferson, IN.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
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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 W. B. Lincoln, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.307541.0001
label: catalog number
content: 307541.0001
label: accession number
content: 307541
objectType: label: Object Name
content: iron, fluting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (machine, clamps, slugs material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (finish material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: decal, chromolithograph (decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (rollers material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (crank material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (bag material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 11 1/2 in x 5 3/4 in; 19.685 cm x 29.21 cm x 14.605 cm