Crank

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OBJECT TYPE: N/A
DATE: 1800
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2013.0042.003

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
MODEL: Unknown
LOCATION: Unknown

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 3
Total Parts: 5
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: Dark brown iron crank separates into two tines with a iron nut at the top to secure into the screw at the top of the handle.

Dimensions

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

Length: 32.0 cm
Width: 15.4 cm
Height: 8.5 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: Unknown
Country: Unknown
State/Province: Unknown
City: Unknown

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Unknown
Period: Unknown
Canada: Querns were a common farmstead tool in Canada depending on the period and geographic region from the late 1700's to the mid 1930's.
Function: The crank rod embeds in wheel shaped grinding stone and rotates the stone and grinds the grain into flour.
Technical: Querns have traditionally been used by families to proces some portion of their cereal crop into flour. This one by its materials of construction and technology is quite early, yet querns were still being made and used in the post 1900 period in western Canda by eastern European immigrants. A primitive hand-turned grain mill.
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: None.
Missing: Nothing missing.
Finish: Dark brown iron crank separates into two tines with a iron nut at the top to secure into the screw at the top of the handle.
Decoration: None.

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Unknown Manufacturer, Crank, before 1800, Artifact no. 2013.0042, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2013.0042.003/

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