Rotary Style Food Mixer
date: label: date made
content: after 1947
name: label: maker
content: Ekco Housewares Company
notes: label: Description
content: Rotary style egg beater or food mixer made of sheet metal. Large steel crankwheel mounted on upper framework, set vertically between two smaller cog wheels which enable the mixing motion when cranked by the knob-shaped red painted wooden crank grip. Two bulb-shaped mixing components, each with four wings (bent sheet metal). Bent sheet metal top with cream colored handle, thick red band. Crank wheel is marked: "HI-SPEED BEATER", with diamond A&J trademark and, "MADE IN U.S.A. BY EKCO PRODUCTS C." A&J trademark used is the 1947 version.
label: Description
content: Maker is EKCO Housewares Company, Chicago, Illinois, who purchased A&J Manufacturing Company of Birmingham, New York in 1929.
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.322793.31
label: accession number
content: 322793
label: collector/donor number
content: 433
label: catalog number
content: 322793.31
objectType: label: Object Name
content: beater
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 12 1/2 in x 4 5/8 in; 6.985 cm x 31.75 cm x 11.7475 cm