Archimedes Style Whip
date: label: date made
content: 1915-1925
name: label: maker
content: Borden Company
notes: label: Description
content: Archimedes style beater or whip. Fan-style mixing end, three blades, bent metal wire, which twists at top for shaft and forms loop at top for hanging. Bent sheet metal wraps around twisted wire shaft, when moved up or down, creates mixing action by spinning whip. Metal cap with screw threads to attach at top to accompanying glass jar, clear glass. Jar is cylindrical, straight sides, with molded screw threads at top. Front is embossed: "Borden's", back is embossed with measurements in ounces and pints. Bottom is embossed: "2001-6/PAT. MAR. 30TH 1915./U.S.A." with mark: backwards "C" overlapping upside down "V". One other mark on bottom, embossed, but illegible (probably "1133413", patent number).
label: Description
content: This beater was a promotional product manufactured by Borden, Inc., a manufacturer of milk, pasta, and snack foods founded in 1857 and based out of Columbus, Ohio. The company was active until the 1990s.
label: Description
content: Related Patent: US 1133413 A, March 30, 1915, Turnet (or Turney) H. Stough, Jeannette, Pennsylvania, for "Kitchen utensil".
label: Description
content: Maker is Borden, Inc.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Columbus
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.322793.15
label: catalog number
content: 76-FT-01.1048
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: collector/donor number
content: 415
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beater
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/2 in x 3 in; 31.75 cm x 7.62 cm