"CROWN" Fluting Machine
date: label: date made
content: 1875 - 1891
label: patent date
content: 1875-11-02
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 an single arm at right on a flat, rectangular, cove-sided base with swiveling C-clamp at front right corner; model and patent date cast in top and maker across underside. Enamelled black with red striping, metallic gold bands and stenciling; crown decal at center of base. Wooden-handled crank at right end of lower roller; frame holding the upper roller has an arched flat spring across top with hole for a tension screw mounted at front end of a lever. Comes with four roller slugs or heater tubes and a pair of black-enamelled, long-handled scissor tongs with concave heads for handling.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place used
content: United States: Kentucky, Goshen
topic: label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Haupt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.307536.0001
label: catalog number
content: 307536.0001
label: accession number
content: 307536
objectType: label: Object Name
content: iron, fluting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron, cast (machine, clamp, tongs, 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: beech or maple (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 13 in x 7 1/4 in; 21.59 cm x 33.02 cm x 18.415 cm