TYBOY Model "B" The Electric Neckwear Presser
date: label: date made
content: after 1932
notes: label: Description
content: Electric neckwear presser consisting of a rectangular hot pad mounted on a slightly larger board and a separate, elongated trapezoidal piece of aluminum; both stored along with one sheet of printed directions in a pasteboard box featuring the product name on face and bottom end of cover. Hot pad is covered with a natural color, plain weave cloth and backing board with a red, embossed leather-pattern cloth; black-and-yellow spiral-pattern, woven cloth-covered twisted cord with two-prong, circular plug extends from one end of pad. No marks on hot pad or aluminum tongue.
label: Description
content: Maker is Hare Manufacturing Co. of Philadelphia, PA. Rene G. Hare of Ardmore, PA, received U.S. Patent No. 1,886,880 for his "Electric Heating Unit" on November 8, 1932; patent does not cover the entire neckwear pressing device, only the heating unit. Hare's original application was filed February 26, 1929, Serial No. 342,759; it was then divided and this application filed January 14, 1930, Serial No. 429,673.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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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 Donald Hoke
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.1181.01
label: accession number
content: 1977.1181
label: catalog number
content: 1977.1181.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: presser, neckwear
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cloth (hot pad and backing board covers material)
label: Physical Description
content: wire (electric cord material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (plug material)
label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (tongue material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (print on box and for instructions material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (instructions material)
label: Physical Description
content: pasteboard (box material)
label: Measurements
content: overall-presser: 1/4 in x 4 1/4 in x 12 in; .635 cm x 10.795 cm x 30.48 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall-box: 1 5/8 in x 5 7/8 in x 14 5/8 in; 4.1275 cm x 14.9225 cm x 37.1475 cm