Vortex Mixer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1965
name: label: maker
content: Lab-Line Instruments, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: The vortex mixer was invented in the late 1950s by Jack Albert Kraft (1920-2001) and his brother, Harold D. Kraft (1918-1997), and quickly became a standard piece of laboratory apparatus. The inscriptions on this example read “Super Mixer” and “LAB-LINE INSTRUMENTS, INC. / ILL.” The “W. H. CURTIN & CO.” tag refers to a firm in Houston, Tx., that sold laboratory apparatus.
label: Description
content: Laboratory Industries, Inc., was established in Chicago, in 1952, by Alexander I. Newman (1903-1970), a mechanical engineer with 26 patents for laboratory apparatus. The firm was renamed Lab-Line Instruments, Inc. in 1962, and relocated to Melrose Park, Ill.
label: Description
content: Ref: Jack A. Kraft and Harold D. Kraft, “Apparatus for Mixing Fluent Material,” U. S. Patent 3,061,280 (Oct. 30, 1962), assigned to Kraft Scientific Corp.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Melrose Park
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Erich Grundel
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0147.037
label: accession number
content: 2004.0147
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0147.037
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Vortex Mixer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (parts material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 cm x 12.3 cm x 14.5 cm; 5 29/32 in x 4 27/32 in x 5 23/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 7 in x 6 in; 15.24 cm x 17.78 cm x 15.24 cm