Sunbeam Coffeemaster
date: label: date made
content: ca 1946
name: label: maker
content: Chicago Flexible Shaft Company
label: maker
content: Sunbeam Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Vacuum coffee maker. Metal body (A & B), chrome-plated, double-bulb-shaped. Lower pot (A) has molded plastic handle, black, arched with pointed top. Metal lid (C), circular, stacked, with thin openings, molded plastic knob at top, black, flange to sit into upper “brew pot”, which has interior circular metal filter holder at bottom (fabric filter still in place) and is held on top of lower pot with black rubber gasket. Lower pot has out-turned lip and spout (opposite handle) at top, engraved art deco style line motif at front and back of metal body, which has an attached molded plastic base, black, with four small legs, streamlined. Detachable black rubber two-prong electric cord (D) with metal coiled spring attaches under handle.
label: Description
content: Designed by Alfonso Ianelli (1888-1965), a designer in the early to mid-twentieth century best known for his consumer product design and collaboration with Frank Lloyd Wright on his 1914 Midway Gardens project early in his career. He also taught industrial design at the Art Institute of Chicago.
label: Description
content: “HIGH/LOW” switch embossed and printed at front bottom of lower pot.
label: Description
content: Printed on bottom: “Sunbeam/COFFEEMASTER/MODEL C20-B/FOR A.C. ONLY/MADE IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA/CHICAGO FLEXIBLE SHAFT CO./CHICAGO/110-120 V. 1000 W./U.S. PAT. 1994323, 2223450/ OTHER PATS. APPLD. FOR/DES. 113,512 113,513, 113,514/CAUTION/USE WITH WALL RECEPTACLE ONLY/DO NOT IMMERSE VESSEL IN WATER/KEEP SWITCH/DRY”
label: Description
content: Patents:
label: Description
content: US 1994323 S, Mar 12, 1935, Inez H. Pierce, for “Coffee extracting device”
label: Description
content: US 2223450 S, Dec 3, 1940, for “Coffee maker”
label: Description
content: 113512, February 28, 1939; 113513, February 28, 1939, for “Design for a coffee pot”; 113514, February 28, 1939, for “Design for a coffee maker bowl”, Alfonso Iannelli
label: Description
content: Maker is Chicago Flexible Shaft Co., Chicago, Illinois and Sunbeam Corporation, Chicago, Illinois. All patents are held by assignors to Chicago Flexible Shaft Co., founded in the early 1890s by John K. Stewart and Thomas J. Clark, primarily manufacturing mechanical horse clippers and sheep shearers. In 1946 Chicago Flexible Shaft Co. became Sunbeam Corporation.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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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 Edgar Wolf, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.3012.05
label: nonaccession number
content: 1988.3012
label: catalog number
content: 1988.3012.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: maker, coffee, electric
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, chrome-plated (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (handle; base material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, chrome-plated (cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (cover material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (filter material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, coffee maker: 12 5/8 in x 8 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in; 32.0675 cm x 20.955 cm x 16.51 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, filter and packaging: 5 1/4 in x 5 5/8 in; 13.335 cm x 14.2875 cm