Grader, potato & onion
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- OBJECT TYPE
- N/A
- DATE
- 1915
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2005.0065.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Boggs Mfg. Co.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- United States of America
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General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- wood body and parts/ metal chain conveyor belts, chutes, parts/ fabric? padding
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 235.0 cm
- Width
- 93.0 cm
- Height
- 152.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Agriculture
- Category
- Crop processing
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Boggs
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
A device used to sort potatoes and onions and grade them by size before bagging. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- black stenciled lettering on end reads ‘BOGGS/ POTATO AND ONION GRADER/ PATENTS #1032375 - #1136584/ OTHER PATENTS PENDING/ BOGGS MANUFACTURING CORP./ ATLANTA N.Y. DETROIT LAKES, MINN.'/ label reads ‘CANADA/ AGRICULTURE/ 026088'
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- No apparent finish on wood/ grey chain/ galvanized meal chutes and parts/ finish on some parts obscured by corrosion/ brown? padding
- Decoration
- N/A
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Boggs Mfg. Co., Grader, potato & onion, after 1915, Artifact no. 2005.0065, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2005.0065.001/
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