"EAGLE" Fluting Machine
"EAGLE" Fluting Machine
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- Description
- Manually-operated fluting machine or iron with two, hollow, corrugated rollers, open at crank end, mounted horizontally one above the other to a single arm on a flat rectangular base with four splayed ogee feet; model and patent date cast in top and maker across underside. Wooden-handled crank at right end of lower roller; frame holding upper roller is fastened to a vertical arm connected at bottom through a slot in the base to a pull tab at front right that lifts the roller. Enamelled black with metallic gold striping and accents. Machine only; no tongs or slugs.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- iron, fluting
- date made
- after 1892
- patent date
- 1875-11-02
- maker
- North Brothers Manufacturing Company
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Physical Description
- iron, cast (overall material)
- enamel (finish material)
- paint (decoration material)
- brass (rollers material)
- beech or maple (handle material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 1/4 in x 11 1/8 in x 4 5/8 in; 13.335 cm x 28.2575 cm x 11.7475 cm
- ID Number
- DL.243360.0001
- catalog number
- 243360.0001
- accession number
- 243360
- Credit Line
- Gift of S. Malkin
- subject
- Household Tools and Equipment
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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