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- OBJECT TYPE
- product
- DATE
- 1955
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2015.0348.002
- MANUFACTURER
- PORTABLE ELECTRIC TOOLS INC.
- MODEL
- Drill-Saw/ZP-1
- LOCATION
- Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 2
- Total Parts
- 2
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Cardboard box.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 26.0 cm
- Width
- 17.2 cm
- Height
- 9.7 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Industrial Technology
- Category
- Tools-Machine
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- PORTABLE
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Illinois
- City
- Chicago
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Quebec
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
Used in Montreal and Ottawa by a Canadian family. According to the donor, the saw may not have been used very much. - Function
-
A box in which a product is shipped and sold. In this case a drill-powered circular saw. - Technical
-
Manual saw accessory which when added to an electric drill, converts the drill into a power saw. This company seems to offer a variety of these attachable accessories but also made full-size electric tools. It reflects well a product made to economize on tools purchase for household uses in the 1950s-1960s. PET Tools made products for Sears and Roebuck in the 1950s, and they also have a variety of magazine advertisements in Popular Mechanics magazine in the late 1940s and early 1950s. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Printed on the proper top: "PET/ TOOLS/ DRILL-SAW/ Converts Your Electric Drill/ into a Power Saw"/ Printed on the proper left and right sides: "PET/ TOOLS/ DRILL-SAW/ Use with any 1/4" Electric Drill"/ Printed on the proper front: "PORTABLE ELECTRIC TOOLS, INC./ CHICAGO 20, ILLINOIS"/ Stamped on the front flap: ZP-1"/ Printed on the inside of the lid: "PET/ TOOLS/ DRILL-SAW/ Converts Your Electric Drill into a Power Saw/ Takes the Work Out of Hand Sawing/ Trimming/ Ripping/ Crosscutting/ Dado Cutting/ Angle Adjustment 90 [degrees] to 45 [degrees]/ Depth Adjustment 0" to 1""
- Missing
- Appears complete.
- Finish
- The box is predominantly red and black with some areas of bare brown cardboard.
- Decoration
- N/A
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PORTABLE ELECTRIC TOOLS INC., Box, circa 1955, Artifact no. 2015.0348, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2015.0348.002/
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