Mudge Patent Canner and Sterilizer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1886
label: patent date
content: 1886-07-27
notes: label: Description
content: Four-jar canner and sterilizer consisting of a square, copper-bottom tank with four perforated collars on top that hold four, tall, cylindrical covers with wire bail handles and rounded, spun-copper, friction-fit tops inverted at their centers. Screw-cap opening at one top corner of tank also functions as a low water alarm whistle; two oval wire handles are on opposite sides. Folded seams. Rectangular, beaded-edge, brass tag mounted to side of tank is embossed "JOHN L. CAUMER CO. / MAKERS / PHILADELPHIA"; clipped-corner, beaded-edge brass tags on the covers read "MUDGE (arched) / PATENT / CANNER (curved)".
label: Description
content: This device is named for Charles F. Mudge of Eskridge, KS, who received U.S. Patent No. 346,122 on July 27, 1886, for his "canning apparatus". Originally came with an adjustable can lifter and booklet containing instructions and recipes.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place patented
content: United States: Kansas, Eskridge
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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 Kenneth E. Jewett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.257491.0090
label: catalog number
content: 257491.0090
label: accession number
content: 257491
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sterilizer
label: Object Name
content: canner
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (tank sides and top; cylinders material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (tank sides and top; cylinders material)
label: Physical Description
content: copper (tank bottom; cylinder tops material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (tank and cylinder handles material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (cylinder handles material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (cylinder handles material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (tags material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 13 1/8 in x 13 1/8 in; 35.56 cm x 33.3375 cm x 33.3375 cm