Cold handle, double-point iron with removable or detachable arched wood grip, oval in section. Maker, place manufactured and size "2" are cast in top plate screwed to body. Handle ends are attached to a horizontal base with locking mechanism topped by a wood button knop; "31" cast in underside of base.
Handle is interchangeable with DL.314637.0067 (larger size "2" iron) and DL.314637.0072 (smaller size "1" iron).
Maker is iron castings manufacturer A. C. Williams Company of Chagrin Falls and Ravenna, OH; 1886-present (now Lite Metals Company, specializing in magnesium and aluminum castings). Named for Adam Clark Williams and successor firm to J. W. Williams Co. (started by Adam's father, John Wesley Williams, in 1844) and J. W. Williams & Son (after Adam joined the business in 1870). Operations were located in Chagrin Falls, OH, until fires in 1889 and 1892 prompted move to Ravenna, OH, in 1892.
Cold handle, double-point iron with one rounded tip; for use with a removable or detachable handle. Maker, place manufactured and size "1" are cast in top of plate screwed to body.
Handle is interchangeable with DL.314637.0067 (larger size "2" iron) and DL.314637.0072 (smaller size "1" iron).
Maker is iron castings manufacturer A. C. Williams Company of Chagrin Falls and Ravenna, OH; 1886-present (now Lite Metals Company, specializing in magnesium and aluminum castings). Named for Adam Clark Williams and successor firm to J. W. Williams Co. (started by Adam's father, John Wesley Williams, in 1844) and J. W. Williams & Son (after Adam joined the business in 1870). Operations were located in Chagrin Falls, OH, until fires in 1889 and 1892 prompted move to Ravenna, OH, in 1892.
Circular skimmer, flat at center, attached on back with three rivets to a offset handle, rectangular in section, wider at top with bent-back hook; all rivets domed on front and back. Bowl is perforated with small holes arranged into five concentric circles around one hole at center. Back of handle is stamped incuse "F.B.S.CANTON.O." and "PAT.JAN.26.86" in sans serif letters.
Bowl beater or food mixer. Half-spherical shaped mixing end, metal mesh with diamond-shaped openings throughout, with two bulb-shaped bent metal wings, and metal shaft, which attaches to single cog wheel that connects to top crankwheel with red painted and turned wooden handle, above lid. Arched bent metal handle attached to metal lid, which sits inside inner lip at top of white milk glass bowl, ribbing molded on outside. Bottom of bowl is embossed: "ANDROCK/MADE IN U.S.A." and has white sticker with "410" handwritten on it. Crankwheel is stamped: "ANOTHER ANDROCK PRODUCT/MADE IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA/PATENT NO 2210810".
Patents:
Patent number US 2210810 A, August 6, 1940, Howard W. Hindes, Worcester, Massachusetts, assignor to The Washburn Company of Worcester, Massachusetts, for "Bearing and frame construction for hand-operated beaters".
One year later Patent number US 2265533 A, December 9, 1941, John R. Lawrence, assignor to The Washburn Company of Worcester, Massachusetts, for "Beater", which matches this bowl beater.
Maker is The Washburn Company, Worcester, Massachusetts, which produced this product under the ANDROCK line.
Single-burner, tabletop kerosene or oil stove having a tapered rectangular fount, an oblong rectangular burner with integrally cast handle and wick tube containing one long wick, and an inverted tapered chimney with one rectangular window topped by a fixed rectangular grate. Red and gold product decal "SUMMER GIRL" on one side of fount. Burner screws onto fount, while chimney hooks onto one long side of burner and is secured by a spring latch or clasp on the other. Fount top has a filling spout with fluted cover at one corner and is cast with product size and name, patent date, and possibly the foundry's trademark.
John De Mooy Jr. and William H. Clemes, assignors to Taylor & Boggis Foundry, all of Cleveland, OH, received U.S. Patent No. 511,737 on December 26, 1893. Taylor & Boggis ("T & B") was in operation from 1868-2012; its factory wasbeing redeveloped into a sustainable fish farm and urban arts complex (as of September 2015).
Lamp stoves such as this have been identified for being used to heat irons during the summer months, but were, in reailty, a portable multipurpose appliance used for cooking, heating and lighting in houses, at camps and elsewhere.
Set of "Asbestos Sad Irons", consisting of three, wood-handled, asbestos-lined hoods (small, medium, large) with flip-over spring clasp or latch for interchangeable use with seven cores (one small, one medium and two large double-pointed, one square-heeled presser, one flounce and one fluter), plus two double-pointed stands, one square mat and yellow wrapping paper for "The DOVER Wax Pad"; all fitted inside a handleless oak case with hinged lid having two hook-and-post fasteners. "ASBESTOS / SAD IRON" cast in tops of all cores. All hoods stamped inside their handles on the face of the heat shield with maker guarantee and patent information.
Complete set; three cores and the two double-pointed stands still in original wrapping paper. Paper lining lid interior with product name missing.
Maker is Dover Manufacturing Company of Canal Dover, OH (not to be confused with Dover Stamping and Manufacturing Co. of Dover, NH, established 1833). Business was started by Charles T. Johnson-Vea and Ole Tverdahl in Stoughton, WI, in 1893 and moved to Ohio in 1900; produced exclusively asbestos sad irons. Tverdahl received U.S. Patent No. 649,968 on May 22, 1900 for the flip-over spring clasp or latch locking mechanism (covered improvements in hood and core).
Fixed whisk or whip, heavy bent steel tinned wire. "V" shaped, double-stranded and coiled mixing end. Twisted wire shaft forms single oblong bent wire handle at end. Used to mix liquids in the kitchen. No mark.
Spoon-shaped whisk/whip or food mixer. Metal wire bent into outer spoon bowl, with thin wire mesh stretched across. Oblong handle comprised of two single wires with twisted wire in center. No mark.
Wire whisk or beater. Heavy metal wire mixing end; long fan shape, with thinner wires running vertically. Turned wooden handle, painted green with three yellow stripes. No mark.
Single burner with brass hose nipple and removable, circular, six-arm grate for use with Colt carbide-feed acetylene gas generator. Domed and stepped circular base has "CLEVELAND. O." cast in along edge.