Alfred L. Cralle

Alfred L. Cralle

🍦🍦🍦ALFRED L. CRALLE🍦🍦🍦

A Snapshot 📷

Alfred L. Cralle was an African American man born in 1866. He is the man who invented the “The Ice Cream Mold and Disher,” which is a tool we know now as the ice cream scooper! Without him, scooping ice cream would be quite tricky!

A Story 📖

Alfred L. Cralle was born in Virginia in 1866. That’s approximately 150 years ago. People of Color and white people did not yet have the same rights. Alfred worked as a porter at a local store in Pennsylvania. A porter is a person who helps clean the building. Many people would come into the store to purchase delicious ice cream. Soon, Alfred noticed something about the ice cream — that is was very tricky to dispense! It usually took one or two people, both with large spoons or ladles in their hands to scoop out the ice cream and hand it to the customer. To solve this problem, Mr. Alfred Cralle invented a new tool, which we now know as the ice cream scooper. On February 2, 1897, the United States granted Mr. Alfred Cralle with a U.S. patent, which is a fancy way of saying our country thought the invention was a great idea too! The invention was originally called “The Ice Cream Mold and Disher” and was designed to keep ice cream and other foods from sticking and easy to use with only one hand. Check out the image below of the patent to see what it looked like!

Lost Histories of African American Inventors

Lost Histories of Afircan American Inventors — Image of Cralle’s Patent

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