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.
Stove-top waffle iron consisting of a high, circular base with two lug handles that holds a pair of removable, circular plates with wire coil handles. Plates are connected by a ball hinge and patterned with a four-quadrant grid of squares. Notches in base allow plates to be flipped 180 degrees. Raised cast-in marks on exterior of plates include the company's logo ("GRISWOLD" in italic letters) at center with pattern name and size "AMERICAN / No. 8 (arched)" above and "THE GRISWOLD MFG. CO. / ERIE PA., U.S.A. / PAT'D DEC. 1, 1908" (curved)" below; pattern number "885" on male plate and "886 / B" on female plate. If slanted, pre-1920; if block, post-1920.