Object Details
- Description
- Manually-operated ice-cream freezer, consisting of a exterior cylindrical container or bucket with a hinged crossbar and an interior, cylindrical cream can with friction-fit cover that houses the dasher or scraper-frame. The shaft of the wooden-handled crank fits through the central openings in the crossbar and cream can into the square socket of the bearing attached at bottom on which the dasher also rests. Exterior bucket is pierced with two holes on opposite sides for salt-water overflow. Crossbar is stamped incuse "POLAR STAR / FREEZER / PAT FEB 15 - 1910 / NOTICE / USE ONLY ICE CREAM SALT / NEVER STOP TURNING / AFTER FREEZING BEGINS", while the cream can has "SCALD AFTER USING / DRY ON STOVE TO PREVENT RUST" around its opening. The wire-rimmed bucket is made in two pieces with folded, vertical seams and a folded-edge bottom. All components, except the bucket and cream can, are either cast or forged and detachable.
- Elmer I. Young of New York, NY, assignor to Polar Star Company of Philadelphia, PA, filed his application for this ice-cream freezer on February 10, 1908, and received U.S. Patent No. 949,692 for it on February 15, 1910. Young was also one of the Company's founders. Several ice-cream freezers made by different companies are named "Polar Star".
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Kenneth E. Jewett
- ca 1910
- patent date
- 1910-02-15
- ID Number
- DL.251349.0194
- catalog number
- 251349.0194
- accession number
- 251349
- Object Name
- freezer, ice cream
- Physical Description
- iron, galvanized or tinned (tub; crossbar; cream can material)
- wire, iron (rims; handle material)
- iron (dasher; bearing material)
- steel (crossbar; handle shaft material)
- wood (handle material)
- paint (handle material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 1/8 in x 7 15/16 in; 20.6375 cm x 20.16125 cm
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- place patented
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- subject
- Food Processing
- Household Tools and Equipment
- kitchen
- Record ID
- nmah_309745
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ae-d938-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
