Bugtite Cup Holder for the Pocket Cup
name: label: maker
content: Burnitol Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Disposable cup marked “POCKET SPUTUM FLASK ‘XL’ / Patented / BURNITOL MANUFACTURING CO. / BOSTON, CHICAGO, SAN FRANCISCO.” The inscription on the cardboard box reads “ONE / BUGTITE CUP HOLDER / For The Pocket Cup / D. R. Bulla Co. / Sophia, N.C.” The Aseptic Drinking Cup Co., of Cambridge, Ma., introduced the term “BURNITOL” to commerce and obtained a trademark in 1906.
label: Description
content: Ref: Harry J. Potter, “Collapsible Receptacle,” U.S. Patent 888,653 (May 26, 1908), assigned to Burnitol Manufacturing Co.
label: Description
content: Harry J. Potter, “Sputum-Cup,” U.S. Patent 920,180 (May 4, 1909), assigned to Burnitol Manufacturing Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Antibody Initiative: Tuberculosis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11458.01
label: catalog number
content: M-11458.01
label: accession number
content: 260557
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sputum cup, holder
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 4 5/8 in x 3 7/8 in; 3.81 cm x 11.7475 cm x 9.8425 cm