Hook, milk can

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OBJECT TYPE: N/A
DATE: 1920–1940
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2002.0544.001

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
MODEL: Unknown
LOCATION: Unknown

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: wood (oak) bar/ metal hooks, rings, bolts,

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 56.5 cm
Width: 10.5 cm
Height: 63.5 cm
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Agriculture
Category: Dairying
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Unknown
Country: Unknown
State/Province: Unknown
City: Unknown

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
Period: circa 120's to 1940's +
Canada: A milk can delivery hook used at the former cheese factory on old Innes Road past the intersection with 10th line, near Ottawa.
Function: A device attached to a track and used at a cheese factory to carry large bulk milk cans from a wagon or truck into the factory.
Technical: An example of a transport tool used at a cheese factory. Farmers delivering raw milk to a cheese factory often used large bulk cans carried in a special flatbed wagon with low rounded sides to accommodate the wide, cylindrical cans. The wagons were later replaced by small trucks when they became available. Most cheese factories had a covered projection jutting out off the loading dock under which a the vehicles had to be driven in order to unload the milk cans. A track similar to that for a manure car ran from the factory work floor out along the peak of the roof of the overhang. A winch on the track could travel out over the vehicle and back inside to the work floor. When lowered over the milk can, the two iron hooks looped into its ears, the mechanism was cranked up lifting the can to the height of the work floor or loading dock. The oak bar from which the hooks hang is slightly longer than the diameter of the cans. As the cans very heavy when full, this was an important piece of labour-saving technology.
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: none
Missing: complete
Finish: unfinished wood/ finish obscured on metal hooks, rings, bolts
Decoration: N/A

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Unknown Manufacturer, Hook, milk can, circa 1920–1940, Artifact no. 2002.0544, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2002.0544.001/

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