US1120716A - Egg-beater. - Google Patents

Description

C. I. HIRT.

BGG BEATER.

APPLICATION FILED PEB. lo. 1910A Patented Dec. 15 1914.

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CLIFFBD I. HIBT, F PEORIB., ILLINOIS.

EGG-BEATER.

Speccation o1' Lettera Patent.

Patented Dec.. 15, 1914.

appiicaiion iiie february is, 1910. seriai No. 544,266.

ToiZZ whom it may concern: ,V y

Be it known that I, CLIFFORD I. Hiirr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Peoria, in the county of Peoria and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Eg -Beaters; and I do hereby declare that the ollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the .art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has reference to certain new and useful im roveinents in machines for beating eggs w ipping cream, and for various other an similar urposes.

One of the objects of t e presentimention is to construct a machine of the character herein referred to which 'shall be operated by power; that is to say the irlachine includes beaters or whippers which are suitably geared to a power s aft and said shaft is adapted to have clutched thereto power means, preferably a flexible shaft for operating the said beaters or whippers, instead of by hand, which has been the usual practice.

A further object of the invention is an egg beater or cream whipper provided with beating elements which are constructed so as -to out through the material instead of cilrryin the material, said beating elements suitacbly geared together, which said gearing is inclosed within a housing or casing and adapted tobe clutched to suitable power mechanism; the housing or casing provided with handeholds or gripping means for steadying the machine during the operation of the beating elements.

With these and such other ends in view as ap` ertains tothe nature and scope of the inven ion the latter consists, essentially, of the novel features, details of construction, and combinations of parts which hereinafter will be more fully described, illustrated and claimed.

ln the drawings forming a pai-t of this application-Figure l. is a side elevation of myimproved inach ine, showing a flexible shaft coupled thereto; Fig. i? is a vertical section of the saine, oinittiiixlr the beating elements; Fig. 3 is an enlarged cross-section on the line 3-8 of Fig. l; Fig. a is a detail in perspective showing the clutch connection between the power shaft and flexible shaft, and Fig. 5 is a modification of the gearing connecting the shafts carrying the beating elements, with the drive shaft.

Like numerals of reference indicate corres ondiiig parts throughout the figures.

n the drawi s, 1 designates a head and said head is rovided with a pair of depending tubular earings 2, which are suitably spaced apart, in which are journaled shafts 3, of considerable length; said shafts at tlieir lower ends being unattached and without a bearing in any supplemental frame part, and for a portion of their length are squared, as at 4. At the juncture of the squared portion 4.- of the shaft, with the round portion 3, thereof, a head 5 is secured and to said head, diametrically opposite each other. the ends 6, of beating elements 7 are secured, by being soldered, or otherwise attached, and said beating elements which have preferably a wave formation, where they intersect with the shaft, are soldered or otherwise suitably attached.

By squaring the lower ends of the shafts and omitting the usual bearing for the extreme ends of the shaft, I rovide an eilicient beater for eggs as well) as an eiiicieiit whipper for cream. It has been dem onstiated that that portion of the shaft to which are attached the beating elements should be squared so that the shaft will cut its Wa. through the material, the same as the beating elements, and not carry the material with it and also that the ends of the shafts should be yleft as free as possible, omitting the usual supplemental frame and hub, which picks up the material and lessons the efficiency of the machine.

To the upper ends of the shafts 3 are secured bevel gears 8 and said gears are in mesh with bevel pinions 9 carried on a power shaft 10. The pinions 9 are preferably arrauged backto back for the purpose of driving` the gears 8 and shafts 3 in 'opposite directions. The beating elements? or. the lower ends of the shafts are normally disposed transversely to each other, as shown in Fig. l.

The shaft l0 has a bearing in a cap-plate l1, which is 0f considerable length, and which has a hand-hold 12 ahime end and a long bearing portion 13 at its opposite end,

which may also be used as a hand-hold or gripping portion. Said cap-plate 11 has the gear shaped portions 14 to receive the pinions 9 and also provided with portions 15 to inclose the gears 8 in the head 1. The head and cap-plate are preferably secured at points 16 and 17, whereby the cap-plate may be removed, and with it the shaft 10 and pinions 9 and enables the operator to get to the gears 8, either for removing the same from the shafts 3. so that said shafts may be taken from thc bearings, or for any other reason.

On the outer end of the shaft 10 is carried `a clutch-member 18 which is formed with a recess or slot 19 through which the shaft 10 projects. 0n the outside of the long bearing portion 13 of the cap-plate and removed inwardly from the end thereof a suitable distance, is attached a spring-locking-plate 20 which is suitably arranged to detachably hold a sleeve 21 on the bearing portion 13 of the cap-plate. T he sleeve 20 has an annular groove 22 which slips under the spring-locking-plate 20, when said sleeve is passed onto or over the said bearing portion 13. This sleeve has suitable connection with the casing 23 of a tiexible shaft 24 and is the means by which said'liexible shaft may be readily and easily connected with the machine. To connect the flexible shaft'proper with the drive shaft 10, when the sleeve has been slipped into place on the bearing portion 13, or asthe same is being slipped into place, the end of the shaft 24 is provided with a clutch-head Q5 having a recess 26. When the clutchmember 18 and clutch-headfl are united, the head is inserted into the recess or slot 19 in the member 18, and the shaft 10 projecting through the member 18 is seated in and has a bearing in the head 25. It is obvious that the head 24 should be the same shape as the recess or slot in the member.

ln Fig. 5 the shafts 3 are provided with intermeshing spur-gears 27, and one of said shafts 3 carries a bevel gear 28 in mesh with a bevel pinion 29 on the shaft 10. This construction is more adapted for a smaller machine than is shown in Fig. 1 and intended to run much slower. ln all other respects it will be of thel same general construction, as-

seen in Fig. 1.

The foregoing machine has been designed more particularly for use in bakeries and similar places. where a simple, durable and eiicient machine is needed and where a high speed machine is necessary.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what ll claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. An eg beater comprising in combination, a han le provided with a plurality of recesses, a driving shaft extending longitudinally through said handle and projecting from one extremity thereof, a plurality of oppositely disposed gears carried by the shaft and mounted in the recesses .in the handle, a plurality of beater shafts, a gear carried by the upper extremity of each beater shaft and mounted in the recesses in the handle, each of said gears meshing with one of the oppositely disposed gears carried by the driving shaft, a cap plate for inclosing the gears within the recesses in the handle, a bearing surrounding each of the beater shafts, said bearings being integral with, and depending from the cap plate, and means for connecting the driving shaft with a suitable source of power.

2. An egg beater comprising a handle, a drivin shaft extending longitudinally therethrong a plurality of oppositely disposed gears mounted on said shaft, a plurality of beater shafts, a gear on the upper extremity of each of said beater shafts and meshing with one of the oppositely disposed gears, a cap plate carried by the handle for incasing the gears, a bearing sleeve integral with,

and depending from said cap plate and sur; rounding each of said beater shafts, and means for connecting the driving shaft with a suitable source of power. Y

3. ln a device of the character described and in combination, a handle member bored for a portion of its length to provide bearings for the shaft, and having enlarged recessed portions, a shaft journaled therein and adapted to be connected to a suitable source of power, said shaft having a pair of oppositely disposed bevel gears mounted in one of said recessed portions, a pair of vertically extending shafts, having bevel gears on the upper ends thereof, one being in mesh with one of said first Ymentioned gears, said second mentioned bevel gear being positioned in the other of said recesses in the handle, a plate member for the handle having depending bearing members for said vertical shafts.

ln testimony whereof l ax my signature,

(C. W. La Polars, Rosana. PLO

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