Rotary Food Mixer
date: label: date made
content: 1922-1929
notes: label: Description
content: Rotary style egg beater (eggbeater) or food mixer, with accompanying jar/container. Mixer comprised of two bulb-shaped, four-winged blades, bent sheet metal, attached at top to two cog wheels and large metal crankwheel. Horizontal handle (robin's egg blue, laquered, wooden) on crankwheel, vertical handle at top, cream-colored, laquered, wooden. Mixer is attached to single piece of sheet metal, lid, which sits on top of earthenware jar, brown exterior, cream interior, glazed, flat sides with rounded lip, flat bottom. Crankwheel is engraved/stamped: "PAT. APL'D FOR/MADE IN U.S.A." with "A&J" trademark in diamond. Jar bottom has white sticker with "407" handwritten on it.
label: Description
content: Patent referenced may be: US 1470170 A, October 9, 1923, Charles E. Kail, Binghamton, New York, assignor to the A&J Manufacturing Company, Binghamton, New York, for "Egg beater".
label: Description
content: Maker is A&J (A & J) Manufacturing Company, Binghamton, New York.
label: Description
content: Note: A&J was purchased by Ekco Housewares Company, Chicago, Illinois, in 1929, all products thereafter had both companies' trademarks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place made
content: United States: New York, Binghamton
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.322793.07
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: collector/donor number
content: 407
label: catalog number
content: 322793.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beater
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: earthenware (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/2 in x 5 in; 31.75 cm x 12.7 cm