Seal-a-Meal II
date: label: date made
content: ca 1977
name: label: maker
content: Dazey
notes: label: Description
content: Food sealer/cooking pouch sealer in original box, which is decorated with photographs and printed text.
label: Description
content: A. Yellow rectangular plastic box, sealing unit, with lid attached to rotating arms; a protected strip of heating element at front to seal plastic bags, with bag-securing pegs; rubber strip on inside lid; white plastic power chord; “DaZey” logo printed on white and green panel to the right, with red power light above; metal plate on underside with holes for hanging on wall. Top lid reads: “seal-a-meal® II” in black, “PRESS HERE” embossed beside. Bottom is stamped: “9 477 DAZEY PRODUCTS CO./MODEL SAM 2-7000/58 WATTS 1220 VOLTS/60 HZ. A.C. ONLY/USE WITH ANY HOUSEHOLD OUTLET./U.S. PAT. 4,021,290/UL®/(illegible)/SEALER/508 J”
label: Description
content: B. Cardboard box of clear plastic cooking bags “Seal-a-meal SAM II” fits in a long cavity inside A.
label: Description
content: C. Opaque-white, plastic oval ring, lip at top “E Z Fill” to be attached to top of bag.
label: Description
content: Also includes booklet “DaZey seal-a-meal II recipe and instruction book.”
label: Description
content: Patent 4,021,290, May 3, 1977, Kevin R. Smith, Dazey Products Company, for “Bag sealer apparatus”
label: Description
content: Maker is Dazey Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri, founded early nineteenth (19th) century, who became a subsidiary of Landers, Frary, and Clark in 1954, which was then acquired by general Electric’s housewares division in 1965. In addition, the DaZey name was acquired by other companies and used on various products, including Seal-a-Meal.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place used
content: United States: Maryland, Bethesda
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0608.08
label: accession number
content: 1988.0608
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0608.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cooking-pouch, electric
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (box material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (sealer material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (power cord material)
label: Measurements
content: overall- seal-a-meal unit: 3 3/8 in x 14 3/4 in x 4 1/8 in; 8.5725 cm x 37.465 cm x 10.4775 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall-in box: 3 7/8 in x 15 7/8 in x 6 1/4 in; 9.8425 cm x 40.3225 cm x 15.875 cm