Electric Percolator
date: label: date made
content: 1916
label: patent date
content: 1916-07-18
name: label: maker
content: Wear-Ever Aluminum
label: maker
content: Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company
notes: label: Description
content: Wear-Ever Electric Percolator
label: Description
content: Aluminum pot (A) in a baluster shape with the heating unit at the base on 4 bakelite semi-circular feet. Upright spout, ear-shaped wooden handle and brass-hinged lid with clear glass window finial marked "PYREX."
label: Description
content: Aluminum brew basket (B), cover (C) and percolating tube (D).
label: Description
content: Stamped on underside: “WEAR-EVER/T.A.C.U.CO./ALUMINUM TM/THE ALUMINUM COOKING UTENSIL CO./NEW KENSINGTON, PA.”; “PAT. JULY 18, 1916/No. 1191426”
label: Description
content: Patent:
label: Description
content: US1191426 A, July 18, 1916, D. C. G. Hughes, Chicago, Illinois, for “Electrically-heated utensil”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, New Kensington
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Food Culture
label: Subject
content: appliances
label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
label: Subject
content: Kitchen utensils
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Edgar Wolf, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.3012.03
label: nonaccession number
content: 1988.3012
label: catalog number
content: 1988.3012.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: percolator, electric
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (part material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 10 3/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 24.13 cm x 27.305 cm x 13.97 cm