ARVIN Fan Forced Electric Heater
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
notes: label: Description
content: Small portable electric heater. Shaped sheet metal, dappled light brown enamel. “Skyscraper” style, stacked sides, streamlines across top, front to back, with attached hollow, shaped metal base, four rubber feet. Diamond pattern cut into front, with square-shaped grill attached, silver metal, horizontal lines throughout. Brown “ON/OFF” switch, “ARVIN” cut metal sans serif logo attached in front, red painted metal. Back has vents cut horizontally. Woven fabric cord attached in back, brown, orange, and gray, with brown molded plastic two-pronged plug, embossed with sans serif “H”. Metal heating coils and fan are visible through front grill.
label: Description
content: Sticker on underside of bottom, yellow and green with black sans serif text: "SERVICE INSTRUCTIONS-THIS HEATER SHOULD BE CLEANED OF DUST AND LINT/EVERY SIX MONTHS. TO CLEAN INSIDE OF HEATER FIRST PULL PLUG FROM WALL,/TAKE OUT COVER SCREWS, AND REMOVE COVER./GUARANTEE-THIS HEATER IS GUARANTEED AGAINST DEFECTS IN WORKMANSHIP/AND MATERIALS, EXCEPT CORD, FOR 1 YEAR FROM DATE OF PURCHASE./MADE IN U.S.A./NOBLITT-SPARKS INDUSTRIES, INC./COLUMBUS, INDIANA/110-220 VOLTS 1320 WATTS/USE ON 50-60 CYCLE A.C. ONLY/PATENT 1998670,2274459, OTHERS APPL'D FOR/LISTED BY UL UNDERWRITERS"; another sticker on bottom reads in black sans serif on yellow: "MODEL 213" In original cardboard box, with packaging inside, brown with red and black text printed on exterior.
label: Description
content: Patents:
label: Description
content: US 1998670 A, April 21, 1935, Earl C. Booth and Robert R. Goshorn, assignors to Noblitt-Sparks Industries, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, for “Electric heater”
label: Description
content: Unable to locate other patent listed, further research needed.
label: Description
content: Maker is Noblitt-Sparks Industries, Inc. (which purchased Arvin Heater Company in 1922, and opened its Columbus, Indiana factory in 1940), now known as Arvin Industries, Inc.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, Columbus
topic: label: Subject
content: appliances
label: Subject
content: Heating
label: Subject
content: Household Tools and Equipment
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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 Edgar Wolf, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0076.03
label: accession number
content: 1988.0076
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0076.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: heater
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: enamel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (cord material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (plug; switch material)
label: Measurements
content: overall-heater: 11 7/8 in x 10 1/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 30.1625 cm x 26.035 cm x 13.97 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall-in box: 12 3/4 in x 11 3/8 in x 8 1/4 in; 32.385 cm x 28.8925 cm x 20.955 cm