Littlefield's Patent Food Press and Strainer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1868
label: patent date
content: 1868-06-16
notes: label: Description
content: Manually-operated kitchen or food press and strainer, consisting of a wire-rimmed cylindrical container with cast grate bottom and stationary arm riveted at one side, to which is attached a removable lever with long, curved handle; a second hook on the lever links to the cast post with hardwood disc press or follower inside the container. Four horizontal legs extend from the grate to fit over a bowl or pot. Comes with three screens, coarse, medium and fine. Lever cast with raised serif letters along one side "LITTLEFIELDS PAT JUNE 16 1868".
label: Description
content: Joseph Littlefield, of Cambridge, MA, received U.S. Patent No. 78,981 on June 16, 1868 for his "improved combined press and strainer" .
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
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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.251349.0195
label: catalog number
content: 251349.0195
label: accession number
content: 251349
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Press, Food
label: Object Name
content: press, food
label: Object Name
content: strainer, food
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (cylinder; screens material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (cylinder; screens material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron or steel, cast (grate; arm; post; lever material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (grate; arm; post; lever material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 16 1/2 in x 9 1/4 in; 19.05 cm x 41.91 cm x 23.495 cm