Plunger Style Mixer
date: label: date made
content: 1913-1920
notes: label: Description
content: Drink mixer. Thick, cylindrical glass container, bottom embossed (backwards): "ROBERTS LIGHTNING MIXER", and has sticker with "425" 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 of glass container. Top of lid is stamped: "ROBERTS LIGHTNING MIXER/PAT'D 1913/NATIONAL CO. BOSTON, MASS."
label: Description
content: Patent number US 1068450 A, July 29, 1913, Henry P. Roberts, Boston, Massachusetts, assignor to Dorsey Manufacturing Company, Boston, Massachusetts, for "Beater and mixer".
label: Description
content: Maker is National Company, Boston, Massachusetts.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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.322793.25
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: catalog number
content: 76-FT-01.1058
label: collector/donor number
content: 425
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mixer, roberts lightning
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: 9 1/8 in x 3 1/4 in; 23.1775 cm x 8.255 cm