Electric Travel Iron
date: label: date made
content: ca 1938
notes: label: Description
content: Electric travel flatiron, dry, no steam function, chrome-plated. Thin, triangular-shaped soleplate, curved sides, thin body. Horizontal handle, wire with shaped wooden grip, stained brown. Handle folds down for travel, hook above heel catches to hold in place during use. Fabric guide and temperature control knob on top of body, black molded plastic knob, fabric guide engraved/stamped into body: "RAY*SILK*WOOL*COTT*LINEN/OFF". Power cord attaches above heel, fabric cord, black, red, and white, with rubber/bakelite plugs, two-pronged. Plug is embossed: "GLADE-CHICAGO/NO 11/PAT'S PEND." Metal panel extended behind heel, stamped/engraved: "DURABILT/PAT. 2,086,240 PAT. 2,045,284/FULLY AUTOMATIC FOLDING IRON/A.C. ONLY 115 VOLT PAT. 2,119,964 CAT. 191 750 WATT/MADE BY THE WINSTED HDW. MFG. CO. WINSTED, CONN. U.S.A.". Hoover collection number is stamped on right side of soleplate: "25041".
label: Description
content: Patents:
label: Description
content: 2,086,240: July 6, 1937, Ludwig Reichold, for "Thermostatic electric heating appliance"
label: Description
content: 2,045,284: June 23, 1936, E. D. Perry, assignor to the Beardsley & Wolcott Manufacturing Company, for "Electric sadiron"
label: Description
content: 2,119,964: June 7, 1938, Ludwig Reichold, The Winsted Hardware Manufacturing Company, for " Electric sadiron"
label: Description
content: This iron is from the Hoover Company Sample collection, North Canton, Ohio, including samples by Knapp-Monarch Company, St. Louis (Missouri), which was bought by Hoover in 1969. The catalogue card also notes the Hoover Company collection tag read: "Sample No. 25041/Rec'd. 04/18/46/Model 191/HISTORICAL MODEL"
label: Description
content: This was the first folding travel iron, introduced in 1937.
label: Description
content: Maker is the Winsted Hardware Company, Winsted, Connecticut., later acquired by Waring Products.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Winsted
topic: label: Subject
content: appliances
label: Subject
content: Daily Life
label: Subject
content: electricity
label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: Laundry
label: Subject
content: Patented
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Hoover Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0835.03
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0835.03
label: accession number
content: 1991.0835
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flatiron
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (cord material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (plug material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/8 in x 4 in x 7 5/8 in; 10.4775 cm x 10.16 cm x 19.3675 cm