Object Details
- Knapp-Monarch Co.
- Description
- Chrome-plated electric flatiron, dry, no steam function. Triangular-shaped soleplate, curved, streamlined body, narrow heel rest. Horizontal handle, curved and molded black bakelite with three bent, chrome-plated metal wires. Fabric gauge on back end of handle, red molded plastic knob. Above knob is debossed and colored white: “KM” with lightning bolt. Power cord attaches to back of handle, fabric cord, metal coil, black and gold cord, with black plastic plug, two-pronged. Extended heel rest, stamped/engraved: "115V. A.C. ONLY 1000W./ PATS. PEND. PAT. NOS. 1,481,021/1,951,176/99,170/CAT. NO. 468-7/TEL-A-MATIC/MF’D. BY K-M COMPANY/ST. LOUIS, U.S.A.”. Left side is stamped: “25379”
- Patents:
- 1,481,021, January 15, 1924, Laurence K. Marshall, assignor to Spencer Thermostat Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for “Temperature-controlled apparatus”
- 1,951,176, March 13, 1934, John E. Smith, assignor to Knapp-Monarch Company, St. Louis, Missouri, for “Coating machine and process”
- 99,170, March 31, 1936, Howard Smith, assignor to Knapp-Monarch Company, St. Louis, Missouri, for “Design for a sadiron”
- This iron is from the Hoover Company Sample collection, North Canton, Ohio, including samples by Knapp-Monarch Company, St. Louis (Missouri), which was bought by Hoover in 1969. It is noted: “Hoover Company Collection tag Sample 25379/Rec’d. April 72/Model 468-7; Knapp-Monarch tag, dated 1937.”
- Maker is the Knapp-Monarch Company, St. Louis, Missouri, founded in 1925 as A.S. Knapp and Company, not as a manufacturer, but to sell products. The company merged with manufacturer Monarch Company of Webster City, Iowa, in 1928. In 1969 the company was acquired by the Hoover Company.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of The Hoover Company
- ca 1937
- ID Number
- 1991.0835.04
- catalog number
- 1991.0835.04
- accession number
- 1991.0835
- Object Name
- flatiron, electric
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- fabric (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 in x 4 1/4 in x 9 1/8 in; 12.7 cm x 10.795 cm x 23.1775 cm
- place made
- United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- appliances
- Daily Life
- electricity
- Household Tools and Equipment
- Laundry
- Patented
- Record ID
- nmah_1097253
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-4be1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
