Hand Mixer
date: label: date made
content: 1959-1970
notes: label: Description
content: Hand mixer for food. Molded plastic handle, formed for easy grip, dark brown with lines of red "faux" wood grain. Long mixing end, thick bent wire, with single length of coil in a fan shape.
label: Description
content: Handle is marked: "PAT. NO. 2,390,544". Patented to Thomas Lamb, New York, New York, December 11, 1945, for "Handle", "...handles or hand grips adapted for use in connection with many articles which are lifted, pulled, pushed or otherwise manipulated by hand, as for example, luggage, hand tools, flat irons..."
label: Description
content: Mixing end is marked: "#1060 U.S. PAT. 2906510". Patented to Victoria P. Harris, New York, New York, September 29, 1959, for "Hand Mixer for Food". "This invention relates to manually-operated mixing devices, and more particularly to devices for blending gravy, sauce, and the like, folding flour into beaten egg whites, aerating fruit juices, and performing similar operations."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place made
content: United Kingdom: Grand Bretagne
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.322793.40
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: collector/donor number
content: 442
label: catalog number
content: 322793.40
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beater
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 12 3/8 in x 3 1/8 in; 3.175 cm x 31.4325 cm x 7.9375 cm