Archimedes Style Mixer
date: label: date made
content: 1915-1925
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. Turned knob, wooden, unpainted with metal cap at bottom, 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, molded band of embossed diamonds at top and bottom. Side of jar is embossed with measurements in ounces and pints. Bottom of jar is embossed: "#1133413/2108-3/PAT. MAR. 30TH 1915. U.S.A.", and with other mark: backwards "C" overlapping upside down "V".
label: Description
content: Related Patent: US 1133413 A, March 30, 1915, Turnet (or Turney) H. Stough, Jeannette, Pennsylvania, for "Kitchen utensil".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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.322793.17
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: catalog number
content: 76-FT-01.1050
label: collector/donor number
content: 417
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beater, fan shape
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (jar material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: nickel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 7/8 in x 3 5/8 in; 42.8625 cm x 9.2075 cm