Enterprise #50 Grist Mill

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c. 1900

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Overview

A small hand cranked iron Enterprise #50 Grist Mill that has been mounted on a solid square plank of wood. The iron body of the machine has been painted black, at the top there is a funnel, in the middle front a spout and it has a square base. At the front of the body is a fly wheel that has been painted green and is attached to the circular central part of the body with a large bolt and wing nut which operates an internal screw mechanism. There is a small crank handle attached to the fly wheel. The operator would push the grain into the funnel at the top and turning the crank handle would force the grain through the screw mechanism, expelling the ground meal via the spout.

Historical information

The Enterprise Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1866 in Philadelphia. The company had steady growth over the next decades making a wide range of domestic products that included but was not limited to bait choppers, beef shavers, bung hole borers, cherry stoners, cheese cutters, cobblers’ kits, cork pressers, tobacco cutters, meat juice extractor, flag pole holders, fruit, wine and jelly presses, sad iron handles, ice shredders, lard presses, lawn sprinklers, measuring faucets, measuring pumps, meat and food choppers, meat hooks, bone, mechanical gristers, electric mills, electric mixers, motor choppers, motor mills, cork pressers, paint faucets, raisin seeders, sausage stuffers, vegetable slicer, and tincture presses. After good sales in in the 1800's and early 1900's the business started to decline and it was finally taken over in 1955.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-124-2024.180

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Material

Iron

Width

19 cm

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