Name/Title
Hand FluterDescription
Two-piece hand fluter consisting of a convex rocker or presser with "GENEVA", product name and patent information cast in across its grip and the top side of its corrugated plate. A matching, flat, rectangular, corrugated bed fixed to an iron base, with a rectangular slot for lifting is at one end of base.
Maker is W. H. Howell Co. of Geneva, IL; Eben Danford and William H. Howell established the foundry in 1862 and Howell continued the business in 1866. Contemporary reference books cite Charles A. Sterling of New York, NY, who received U.S. Patent No. 57,403 for his "improvement in fluting-machines" on August 21, 1866, as the inventor of the "Geneva Hand Fluter".
