US1677754A

US1677754A - Beater

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Publication number: US1677754A
Application number: US31651A
Authority: US
Inventors: Earle Lee Edgar
Original assignee: UNITED ROYALTIES CORP
Current assignee: UNITED ROYALTIES Corp
Priority date: 1925-05-20
Filing date: 1925-05-20
Publication date: 1928-07-17
Anticipated expiration: 1945-07-17

Description

July 17, 1928.

L. E. EARLE BEATER Filed May 20, 1 925 Patented July 17, 1928.

e Miran STATES- PAT-EN LEE EDGAR EABLE, OF

BEATER.

Application filedv May 20, 1925., Serial No. 31,651.

This invention relates to improvements in beaters Whichare particularly intended for culinary use.

Ihe primary object of the present inven tion is to provide means for preventing the beater pinions from becoming disengaged from the driving gear, thereby causing the pinions tobecomeeither locked or-thro-wn out of operation with the driving wheel or gear.

A further object of the present invention is to provide means looated under the pinions to prevent them. from I becoming disengaged from the driving gear, or.prevent themfrom being disengaged, and then locked with the driving gear. I p

A further object of the presentinvention is, to provide the supporting frame for the gears of the beater [with abridge that extends under the pinions of-the beaters thereby preventing them from becoming disengaged with the driving gear, and again engaged in'locked relationto t-hedrivinggear.

Another object of the present. invention is to provide a supportingframe-for the driving gear and beater pinions with an attachable bridge that extends beneath, the pin ions thus preventing them from being dis engaged from theQdrivin'g gear, thereby being either inoperative, or caused ;to again engage the driving gear in locked relation therewith.

Further objects of. the present invention will appear from the following description:

. In the accompanying drawings: I I

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a beater that-involves the present improvement.

Figure 2 is a transverse sectional view. on line 22 ofFigure 1 looking inthe direction indicated by arrow.

Figure 3 is an enlarged vertical sectional view taken through the center of the bridge which involves the improvement herewith disclosed.

Figure 4c is a detached plan View of-the blank which, forms the bridge.

Figure 5 is a vertical sectionalviewtaken through the lower portion of-the driving wheel, the pinions the bridge and the upper ends of the beater blades.

The present invention involves the type of beater which is disclosedin the patent granted 'to Ladd' July 7,. 1908, No. 892,856.

Referring-now to 'the' drawings, it will be observed that the present improvement, in volves a supporting frame'l having attached to its upper'end a suitable handle 2. This frame extends downward as-shown and has its lower end providedwitha U-shapedlateral extension?) which has a transverse open? in 4, in which opening. the pinions 5 are located. A driving wheelfi is centrally-journalled at 7 on the supporting framed and carries a suitable handle 8 by means of which it is rotated. .It will bfiobserved that infthis type of beater the teeth 9 of'th'e driving Wheel 6 pfis between the pinions 5 which pinions engage, the teeth as shown. 7 These teeth preferably are turned late'rall'yfor-the purpose of engagement with'the so that theymay engage opposite sides of the teeth 9 withoutinterference A suitable rod has its ends 10 att ached to opposite sides of the lateral extension 3. of the supporting frame 1.

. The beater blades 11 are journalled on the B EW YORK, ASSIGNOR TQUNITED 'RoYnL'rIEs COB- PORATIONQIOF NEW YORK,

upwardly extended portions ot the rodflO,

and;- attached. to the upper ends of these beater blades are the pinions 5.v It will be observed that in this construction the; pinions are loose and must be loose on the vertical extensions of thejrod 10. beater blades may ,be-referred to as floating on thevertical portions of the rods, and con sequently the pinions 5 attached to the upper ends of thejbeaterblades arellikewi'se floating on the said-rod.

Therefore heretofore in this type of beater these pinions are maintained in engagement with the driving wheel 6 by reason ofithe beater blades 11.. e

By reason of this construction' of beater,

difiiculty has arisen by reason of the pinions. becoming disengaged from the driving wheel. For years it has been found that one or more of these pinions may be disengaged from the driving wheel .6. by a lateral ex? pansion of the beaterblade that carries it,"

and that whenengaged againwith thed'rivingwheel, it happens not to be in,;its proper position, then the driving gearl and the beater blades become lockedso that thedevice is inoperative, 7 t

This hasjbeenfound to occur uno ler sev- Therefore the eral conditions. One condition being that when the merchant removes the wrapping from a dozen or more of these heaters and they are laid in the box on his counter, and a woman or other person in a hurry takes up one of these heaters and pulls it free from the remaining heaters, causes the lateral expansion of the beater blades and thereby causes the floating pinion 5 to be disengaged from the driving wheel, and when again free engages the driving wheel in a different p sition, in which it is locked, making the device inoperative. Such a condition naturally leads the person to believe the device is read ily distorted to make it inoperative, and destroys the sale of it.

Second, it has been found that in handling heaters in the kitchen the blades have been struck against the table in such a manner as to cause the disengagement of the floating pinion with the operating wheel, causing the same result. 1

Third, some people use thebeaters in a very, heavy sticky material thereby overworking them which causes the lateral expansion of the blades in withdrawing the beater from the mixture, thereby causing the floating pinion to disengage the driving gear, and possibly when engaging it again causes the locking of the parts above referred to.

The foregoing defects are not due to any bad material orworkmanship but is due to the inherent construction of the device. While the above result has been known for a good many years no manner has been suggested of curing the result. Finally the applicant has devised the method which. will now be described of preventing the disengagement of these floating gears with the operating wheel thereby overcoming absolutely the conditions above recited.

This improvement consists of a bridge 11 that extends across the opening 8 beneath the pinions and between them so thatif the beater blades 11 are laterally expanded for the above reasons, or in any manner are drawn down they then engage the trans verse bridge 12 thus preventing them from being pulled out of engagement with the driving wheel.

This improvement as here shown is of such a form that it is attachable to the construction as it is being made.

This device is attachable by having its ends somewhat elongated and doubled backward as shown at 13 around the part- 14. of the laterally bent portion of the supporting frame. For the purpose of making the attachment more permanent than would otherwise be the case the part 1% is bent downward as at 15 into a downwardly bent portion 16 of the clip 12'thus uniting them and holding the clip from lateral movement on the supporting frame. Attention is directed to the fact that the center portion 17 of the bridge 12 is bent upward and lies substantially close to the floating pinions thus preventing themfrom being depressed out of engagement with the driving wheel 6.

Having thus described my invention what I claim is: v

1. A beater comprising a vertical frame having at 1ts lower end a laterally extending portlon formed with a plnion opening, a pinion located 1n the said opening and carrying beater blades and a bridge extend ing across the said opening connected to opposite portions of the supporting frame by being bent around the latter for preventing the disengagement of the pinion from the driving gear.

v 2. Abeater comprising a vertical frame having a vertical driving gearthe lower end of the frame having lateral extensions having a pinion opening, a pinion located in the said opening, a bridge connected to the laterally bent lower end of the frame by having its ends bent ther'earound, the bridge having a reduced-central portion whereby it may be extended below the teeth in the pinion for preventing it becoming disengaged from the driving wheel. I

8. A beater comprising a vertical frame, a vertical driving gear carried by the said frame, the lower end of the frame turned laterally and having pinion openings, a rod upon which the pinions are journalled, a bridge having a reduced central portion passing below the said pinions for the pur pose described, and the ends of the bridge having cars which are doubled around the laterally bentportion of the frame.

4. A beater comprising a vertical frame carrying a vertical driving wheel, said frame having a laterally bent lower end provided with pinion openings, pinions located in the said openings carrying beater blades, a

bridge extending between and below the said pinions, for the purpose described, the ends of the bridge bent around the said frame and the laterally bent portions of the frame and the said bridge being bent together whereby it is locked in position.

5. A beater comprising a vertically U shaped frame having a transverse opening which forms parallel portions at each side of the opening, a pinion located in the opensaid opening, said bridge having the edge ing, an operating wheel carried by the frame of its horizontal portion cut away to form a and engaging the said pinion, the frame hav Vertical opening for said pinion, the parts ing a horizontal bridge in substantially the operating as described.

5 same horizontal plane as the lower portion In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my of the U-shaped frame, the bridge extendsignature. ing below the said pinion'and spanningt-he LEE EDGAR EARLE.