Electric Coffee Percolator

Electric coffee percolator. Streamlined body (A) of metal (steel?), chrome-plated, with molded plastic, short molded flange base, black. Pocket spout, attached sheet metal, molded plastic handle, comma-shaped, black. Measurement marks debossed on metal under handle. Front bottom has a yellow light, label above reads: “FARBERWARE ®/Superfast/FULLY AUTOMATIC”. Lid (B) is metal, chrome-plated, domed, with tall flange to fit into top of pitcher (A), molded plastic knob. Interior metal filter is comprised of a lidded, short, cylindrical metal container (D), small openings on bottom, with protruded hole in center; lid of container (E) has upper flange, openings, hole in center; metal shaft (C) has coiled spring and particleboard (?) tube, sits inside of pitcher (A), with container (D) on top. Detachable rubber electric cord with two-prong plug (F).

Bottom of pitcher (A) is embossed: “FOR USE WITH WALL OR BASE/RECEPTACLE ONLY/AC ONLY/AUTOMATIC/PAT. NO. 2,817,743/120 VOLTS 1000 WATTS/MODEL 104 B C/UL ®/FARBERWARE ® B/SUBS OF W. KIDDE & CO.INC./BRONX, N.Y. 10461/MADE IN U.S.A./DO NOT PUT BASE IN WATER”

U.S. Patent 2,817,743, December 24, 1957, H.K. Foster, assigner to S.W. Farber, Inc., New York, N.Y., for “Automatic coffee percolator”

Maker is Farberware (S.W. Farber, Inc.), New York, founded in 1900 by Simon W. Farber, an aspiring tinsmith who had emigrated from Antipol, Russia, in 1899. The company was bought in 1966 by LCA Corporation (an affiliate of Walter Kidde & Company, Inc., Belleville New Jersey). Circa 1900-present.

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