Sieve

Object Name:

Sieve

Object ID:

1968.029.04

Date:

circa 1865

Description:

Sieve. Round. Wooden, with steel wire bottom. Length of wood, 3.7" wide, 0.14" thick, formed into hoop with tapered ends that overlap. Iron tacks hold overlap area together. Second hoop, 1.8" wide, 0.17" thick, formed and overlaps at tapered ends. Overlap area fastened with iron tacks. Outside hoop at bottom has interior hoop, 0.45" wide, that overlaps on its ends and is fastened with iron tacks. Fastened to itself and other lower hoop to create a shell along bottom edge. Matrix of steel wires for sieve, woven in square pattern. Wire 0.46" diam. Wires ~0.4" on center. Cut in circular pattern; folds upward around inner hoop, which presses down on shelf or lip of bottom hoop edge. Wires are somewhat distorted, so no uniform matrix. Wires also bent into roughly concave shape, so whole device rests on wires when they are on bottom surface.

Material:

Wood
Metal
Steel
Iron

Dimensions:

H-4.4 Dia-13.8 inches Weight-22.7 oz

Credit Line:

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Jewett