Opener, bottle
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- OBJECT TYPE
- electric
- DATE
- 2007
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2013.0046.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Sunbeam Products Inc.
- MODEL
- Oster 4279-33
- LOCATION
- China
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 11
- AKA
- Electric Wine Opener
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- A synthetic easy grip silver and black casing; a synthetic silver up/down switch; a metal corkscrew and hardware; a black synthetic centre piece that moves up and down around the corkscrew; a synthetic opaque bubble at the top of the opener with led lights on the inside to indicate when the opener is recharging.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 5.0 cm
- Width
- 5.5 cm
- Height
- 27.5 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Domestic Technology
- Category
- Food processing
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Sunbeam
- Country
- China
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- This wine opener new/never used. This type of wine opener used c. 2012 +
- Canada
-
Takes a snapshot of Canadian kitchens in 2012. As part of "New Technologies" collection acquisition, this item serves to preserve appliances that are currently used in Canadian kitchens in their economic and marketing context for the future. [Ref. 1] - Function
-
To remove the cork from a bottle. - Technical
-
The electric wine opener is operated by one single switch, the switch has two functions: press the lower part of th switch to remove a cork from a bottle and press the upper part of the switch to release a cork from the mechanism. It illustrates some trends in today's kitchen technologies; the "hands off", multifunction, simple to operate and design element. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Mfr's:"Oster®".
- Missing
- Nothing is missing.
- Finish
- A synthetic easy grip silver and black casing; a synthetic silver up/down switch; a metal corkscrew and hardware; a black synthetic centre piece that moves up and down around the corkscrew; a synthetic opaque bubble at the top of the opener with led lights on the inside to indicate when the opener is recharging.
- Decoration
- None.
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Sunbeam Products Inc., Opener, bottle, circa 2007, Artifact no. 2013.0046, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2013.0046.001/
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