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LOETSCHER-RYAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY
LOETSCHER-RYAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY. Established and incorporated in 1880, the company employed one hundred people in the production of various types of hardware. These included flower pot brackets, store door handles, foot scrapers, side lamp brackets, registers, wall frames, chest handles in patterns for special uses, and trunk or box castors.
These two irons were made by the Rock Island Mfg. Co. of Rock Island, Illinois. The smaller iron is a travel iron, the larger is a typical household iron of the day. Both carry a patent date of September 15, 1914 and that patent–#1,110,805–was granted to Emil C. Loetscher of Dubuque, Iowa. The patent declares that it "... has for its leading object to provide safe and efficient means whereby the heat will, not only be distributed all over the ironing surface, but largely increased along the edges and at the point end of the iron." Mr. Loetscher was a principal in the electrical specialties manufacturer Loetscher-Ryan.
In 1918 Rock Island Mfg. Co. absorbed Loetscher-Ryan and began to produce electric irons under its own name.
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Source:
vintageelectricirons.blogspot.com/2011/11/ideal-heat.html
The 1911-12 Dubuque City Directory listed the right side of Main south of Jones.