Waring Electric Blender
date: label: date made
content: ca 1965
name: label: maker
content: Waring Products Corp.
notes: label: Description
content: Electric blender.
label: Description
content: Base: Green plastic base, graduated in size, with metal mechanics and bottom. 4 black rubber prongs and rotating black plastic mounting disk at top for holding accompanying pitcher. Front of base has attached metal plate, faux wood grain, with Waring logo and "waring/BLENDER/Solid State" printed, 8 rectangular white push buttons at front, printed above: "OFF/WHIP/CHOP/MIX/GRATE/PUREE/BLEND/LIQUIFY". Metal bottom, gray sticker attached, printed: "BLENDER CC-8 MODEL 1186/50 TO 60 HZ AC ONLY/120 VOLTS 5.9 AMPS 720 WATTS/U.S. PAT. NOS. 2,109,501 201,169/WARING PRODUCTS DIVISION/DYNAMICS CORPORATION OF AMERICA/NEW HARTFORD, CONN. U.S.A./ATTACH. SERIES M SER. NO. 1186", and with "DCA and "W" logos on either side. Three black rubber feet. Retractable black rubber two-pronged power cord wound inside the base.
label: Description
content: Box: Cardboard, rectangular, printed in blue on all sides.
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content: Patents:
label: Description
content: US 2109501 A, March 1, 1938, Frederick J. Osius, for “Disintegrating mixer for producing fluent substances”
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content: US D201169 S, May 18, 1965, Paul O. Rawson, assignor to Dynamics Corporation of America, for “Electric blender base”
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content: Pitcher: Footed, quatrefoil-shaped cylinder, colorless molded glass, translucent, with finely fluted exterior walls and side handle. 4-blade metal chopper mounted on inside bottom. Recessed underside and metal, wagon-wheel shaped connection in bottom center for mounting on base. Lip at top of container. Measurements in ounces and cups are embossed on exterior. “12” embossed on exterior bottom.
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content: Lid: Black rubber, flat-topped lid, quatrefoil shape, with a hole in center and flange which allows it to fit over pitcher top. Clear, molded plastic removable stopper/finial fits into hole, molded sides, Waring logo embossed on top, “2 OZ” embossed on underside, was likely also intended to be used for measuring.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, New Hartford
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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 Anne. M. Serio
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.3117.01
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content: 1988.3117
label: catalog number
content: 1988.3117.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: blender, electric
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (pitcher material)
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content: plastic (lid material)
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content: metal (base material)
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content: rubber (cord material)
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content: plastic (base material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (base material)
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content: metal (pitcher material)
label: Measurements
content: overall-with glass jar: 15 1/8 in x 7 7/8 in x 7 1/8 in; 38.4175 cm x 20.0025 cm x 18.0975 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall-box: 7 3/4 in x 12 1/8 in x 9 1/4 in; 19.685 cm x 30.7975 cm x 23.495 cm