Lid Closer
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1923
notes: label: Description
content: Cast iron device for putting lids on cans, with inscription that reads “THE OHIO PAIL CO., MIDDLEFIELD OHIO PATEND JAN. 23, 1923.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Smith Maddison Johnson, “Apparatus for Fastening Steel Pail Tops,” U.S. Patent 1,443,264 (Jan. 23, 1923).
label: Description
content: Smith Maddison Johnson, “Pail Closure,” U.S. Patent 1,459,469 (June 19, 1923).
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Budeke's Paints
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.333866
label: catalog number
content: 333866
label: accession number
content: 1981.0518
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lid Closer, Hand Operated
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: handle: 10 in; 25.4 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 37 cm x 51 cm; 14 9/16 in x 20 1/16 in