Posted 11 months ago
alylr
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Construction is cast aluminum measuring approx. 11" long with a riveted pivot. Main handle has a 3-5/8" diameter cup-shaped attachment with gripping features inside. On the top of the handle above the attachment is the 'GE' logo. The very end of the handle is marked 'Juice-O-Mat'. The other end of the handle has a screw & wingnut clamp for attachment to some support structure. The underside of the handle is marked 'U.S. Pat. No. 1550844, U.S. Pat No. 2026918, Other Patents Pend., Des. No. 101544'.
I can find NO information online which connects the Juice-O-Mat product name to the General Electric company nor can I find any images of the juicer that this handle is a part of.
Hi, alylr. :-)
I see what you mean.
I can look up those patents, but none of them name-check GE:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US1955975
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2440425/
https://patents.google.com/patent/USD101544/
In fact, that design patent name-checks the guy associated with Rival.
Yet here is a cast metal appliance part with both the Juice-O-Mat name and the GE logo on it.
Is a puzzlement. };-)
The only reference I could find that associates GE and the Juice-O-Matic is this one, and it's an unfinished work:
*snip*
Inventions from GE Schenectady, NY
Small Kitchen Appliances 1936
Numerous inventions including the Juice-o-Mat, Hotpoint automatic roaster, and more
*snip*
https://edisontechcenter.org/SchenInventions.html
Did somebody win out over Thomas Edison? That didn't happen too often.
I recently watched a documentary on Universal Studios founder Carl Laemmle who was being strong-armed by Edison (who was very smart and energetic, but wasn't an overly nice person) over a patent for film sprocket holes -- and Laemmle won -- because his people managed to find a pre-existing patent for perforated toilet paper. Seriously.
You might want to contact the Edison Tech Center, and ask them what's up with that:
http://edisontechcenter.org/contact.html
from a 1930's GE Hotpoint mixer juicer set; probably contracted with Rival on the Juice-O-Mat patents
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/bd/74/33/bd7433d995a1908061f0c0c07aaaa542.jpg
TallCakes, Woo hoo!
Mystery solved - thanks TallCakes!