WITH EVERY MEAL, DEALING WITH KNIVES, FORKS AND SPOONS Part 2
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: “To depart from the animal system of handling food, some thoughtful fellow with a good appetite invented the knife, fork and spoon. At first crudely formed but now --” “Cutting spoon blank.” Worker at machine cutting blanks - hands displaying blanks. “Steel rollers add width to the bowl and length to the handle.” Worker feeding blanks into rolling machinery - spoons coming out. “Cutting into correct outlines and shaping bowl.” Woman worker operating cutting machine - worker operating shaping press - hands displaying spoons. “Stamping pattern on handle.” Worker operating press - hands displaying spoons. “‘Drop forging’ a knife handle.” Worker pouring molten metal into molds - displaying partially completed knife. “Forming blade and finishing handle.” Worker feeding knives into machine - hands holding knives - worker putting knives in lathe, machining handles. “Polishing blade.” Worker operating polishing machine - worker polishing blade by hand. “The hollow handles, after stamping, are soldered together with silver solder and the blades are attached.” Worker placing handles into holder for soldering, soldering handles. “Inspecting and plating.” Worker hitting knife blades with hammer, placing knives in plating tank, taking them out - worker placing spoons in rack, placing rack into plating tank. ‘‘Burnishing.” Woman worker placing spoons in machine - machine in operation - women workers operating machines for burnishing knives. “Champions of etiquette.” Girl sitting at table, wrapping and boxing silverware. “Perforating and giving oval shape to casserole body.” Worker operating press used to punch out design in dish - worker operating press shaping dish. “A sandwich tray.” Woman worker placing flat metal disk into press, shaping tray - woman worker operating press, cutting pattern in tray. “Making an electric toaster door recognizable.” Woman worker operating cutting press. “A coaster made ‘wholly.’” Woman worker operating cutting press. “Wipe tinning inside of chafing dish food pan.” Worker wiping inside of pan, placing pan over heat, wiping again, displaying tinned pan. “Soldering shoulder to body of tea pot automatically: acid and solder are applied inside of pot before applying heat.” Worker placing teapots on revolving soldering machine. “Shaping and hardening a meat dish cover.” Worker operating machine shaping cover, displaying finished cover. [1920]
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