Bowl Food Mixer
date: label: date made
content: 1941-1950
name: label: maker
content: Washburn Company
notes: label: Description
content: Bowl beater or food mixer. Half-spherical shaped mixing end, metal mesh with diamond-shaped openings throughout, with two bulb-shaped bent metal wings, and metal shaft, which attaches to single cog wheel that connects to top crankwheel with red painted and turned wooden handle, above lid. Arched bent metal handle attached to metal lid, which sits inside inner lip at top of white milk glass bowl, ribbing molded on outside. Bottom of bowl is embossed: "ANDROCK/MADE IN U.S.A." and has white sticker with "410" handwritten on it. Crankwheel is stamped: "ANOTHER ANDROCK PRODUCT/MADE IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA/PATENT NO 2210810".
label: Description
content: Patents:
label: Description
content: Patent number US 2210810 A, August 6, 1940, Howard W. Hindes, Worcester, Massachusetts, assignor to The Washburn Company of Worcester, Massachusetts, for "Bearing and frame construction for hand-operated beaters".
label: Description
content: One year later Patent number US 2265533 A, December 9, 1941, John R. Lawrence, assignor to The Washburn Company of Worcester, Massachusetts, for "Beater", which matches this bowl beater.
label: Description
content: Maker is The Washburn Company, Worcester, Massachusetts, which produced this product under the ANDROCK line.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
label: place used
content: United States: Ohio, Columbus
topic: label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: Kitchen utensils
label: Subject
content: Food Processing
label: Subject
content: Patented
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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.322793.10
label: catalog number
content: 76-FT-01.1043
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: collector/donor number
content: 410
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mixer, food
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/8 in x 5 1/4 in; 18.0975 cm x 13.335 cm