Egg beater
date: label: date made
content: 1923-1929
notes: label: Description
content: Handheld rotary style egg beater or food mixer, sheet metal and wood. Large crankwheel mounted on upper framework, set vertically between two smaller cog wheels which enable the mixing motion when cranked by the crank grip, an attached coiled wire handle. Two bulb-shaped mixing components, each with two wings of bent sheet metal with one wing of bent wire. Knob-shaped white painted wooden handle at top. Outer side of crank wheel is marked: "MADE IN U.S.A/PAT. OCT. 9, 1923" with the trademark "A&J" within a diamond.
label: Description
content: Patent Number US 1470170 A, Charles E. Kail, Binghamton, New York, October 9, 1923, assignor of the A&J Manufacturing Company of Binghamton, New York, for "Egg Beater".
label: Description
content: Maker is A&J Manufacturing Company of Binghamton, New York, which was purchased by Ekco Housewares Company of Chicago, Illinois in 1929, at which time products featured both company's 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.322793.34
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: collector/donor number
content: 436
label: catalog number
content: 322793.34
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beater
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 10 7/8 in x 2 5/8 in; 5.08 cm x 27.6225 cm x 6.6675 cm