Frying Pan Patent Model
Frying Pan Patent Model
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- Description (Brief)
- Packard’s improvement in “Cooking Utensils,” her only patented invention, included a new design for a frying pan using rounded recesses to keep eggs in place on the pan while cooking.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- pan, frying
- pan, fry
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- date made
- 1870
- patent date
- 1870-10-18
- inventor
- Packard, Elizabeth L.
- associated place
- United States: Massachusetts, Stoughton
- United States: Massachusetts, Boston
- Physical Description
- iron, cast (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/4 in x 15 1/2 in x 10 7/8 in; 8.255 cm x 39.37 cm x 27.6225 cm
- ID Number
- DL.65.0339
- catalog number
- 65.0339
- patent number
- 108,385
- accession number
- 249602
- subject
- Kitchen utensils
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Family & Social Life
- Work
- Domestic Furnishings
- Invention and the Patent Model
- Patent Models
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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