US11387A

US11387A - Butter- worker

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Publication number: US11387A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1854-07-25
Anticipated expiration: 1871-07-25

Description

E. RING.

Butter Worker.

YPaented YJuly 25, 185.4.

En N UNITED STATES PATENT oEEioE.

ELIHU RING, OF MECKLENBURG, NEW YORK.

BUTTERfWORKER.

` p Specification of Letters PatentNo. 11,387, dated July 25, 1854.

n To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIHU RING, of Meck-` lenburg, in the county of Tompkins and y, State of New York, have invented certain `new and useful Improvements in Machines `for W'orking Butter; and I do hereby declare that the same are described and represented in the following specifications and drawings.

To enable others skilled in theart to make and use my improvements, I willproceedto describe their construction and operation,

referring `to the drawings, in which the same letters `indicate like parts: in Ieach of the figures.

Figure l, is chine. Fig. 2 is i a sectional elevation through the line .e z of Fig. l. 4 b

I make a frame in the formrepresented with three parallel bars A A1 A2, and two ends B B. The cleats C C are fastened to the rails A A1 and are beveled so as to receive the cleats D fastened to the bottom of the box E( The box E is made in` the form represented in the dra-wing and there is a groove F in the sides and one end for .the cover to slide in; and a groot/*e in each t side about half way betweenthe top and bottom for the splines or strips G G which splines are provided with a dovetailing score for the keys a` cz to prevent the splines from working out by the operation of the piston II which is made in the form represented and provided with scores for the splines G Gr which holds the piston H in a proper position in the box and permits it to traverse when operated by the link I and crank J, which crank is upon the shaft L; which shaft is tted to turn in the boxes INI M fastened to the stands N N upbn the rails A A as represented in the drawing. The shaft L is provided with a fly wheel O, and hand winch P by which the machine may be operated. The block Q (which is about the same size of the piston) is made in the form represented and provided with scores for the splines G G which hold it in its proper position and allows it to traverse when acted upon by the butter or piston I-I which forces it back against the spring R which spring forces it forward against, as the piston is withdrawn. The spring R is made in the form represented and provided with a shank a plan or top view of the ma-` fitted to the slot S in the bottom of the box E the lower end of the shank of the spring being furnished with'a screw nut to fasten it in the position required. The holes T T `may be scored or indented or furnished with protuberances if it should be necessary or desirable.

The machine being constructed and completed as above described. The inside of the box, the piston and block Q should be wet with water to prevent the butter from adhereing to them. The winch should be turned so as to draw the piston back and the butter to be worked placed in the box between the piston and the block Q, when the piston may be operated by turning the winch so as to compress the butter and force out the buttermilk; the spring R permitting the block Qto yield as the butter is forced against it, until the layer of butter is pressed so thin that the machineceases to produce any effect upon it; when the machine may be stopped and the layer of butter may be doubled over so as to form two or more thicknesses between the piston and the block Q and the machine put in operation again.

The abovementioned process may berepeated until the butter is worked as much as may be necessary or desirable; and by changing the position of the spring R the block Q may be set so as to adapt the machine to the quantity of butter to be worked.

WhatI claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent in the above described machine for working butter, is

Arranging the block Q to traverse as described in combination with the spring R or its equivalent to force it forward in the operation of working butter substantially as described.

ELIHU RING.

Witnesses:

DANIEL PHILBRICK, Jr., DAVE) PosT.

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