Plunger Style Mixer
date: label: date made
content: 1913-1920
notes: label: Description
content: Food or drink mixer, similar in form to "Roberts Lightning Mixer" (DL*322793.25). Thick, cylindrical glass container, sticker on bottom, with "426" handwritten on it. Mixing apparatus is comprised of flat metal circle, punctured with circular openings, with four curved metal protrusions, attached to a twisted metal shaft, which passes through flat hole in top of domed metal lid. White plastic knob for handle at top of twisted metal shaft. Pulling handle creates mixing action. Metal cap sits over top lip of glass container. No mark.
label: Description
content: "Roberts Lightning Mixer" was patented July 29, 1913, to Henry P. Roberts, Boston, Massachusetts, Patent number US 1068450 A, assignor to Dorsey Manufacturing Company, Boston, Massachusetts, for "Beater and mixer".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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.322793.26
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: catalog number
content: 76-FT-01.1059
label: collector/donor number
content: 426
objectType: label: Object Name
content: device, mixing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (cover material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 4 in; 25.4 cm x 10.16 cm