US339991A

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Publication number: US339991A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-04-13
Anticipated expiration: 1903-04-13

Description

J. P. KELSO.

(No Model.)

GHURN.

Patented Apr. 13, 1886'.v

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UNITED STATES PATENT Orrica.

JAMES P. KELSO, OF MORGANTOWVN, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T JAMES HICKEY, OF SAME PLACE.

CHURN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 339,991, dated April 13, 1886.

Application filed December 2, 1885. Serial No. 184,396. (No model.)

To .LZZ whom: it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES P. KELSO, of the town of Morgantown, count-y of Morgan, and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Chorus, of which the following is a specification.

My said invention principally consists in a double inclined track and in a churn-body mounted thereon, so that as it is moved back and forth on said track, first one end and then the other will be elevated and then depressed, throwing the contents of the churn violently against first one end of the receptacle and then the other; and. it further consists in a churn 1 having said ends formed of a general concave shape, but with their surfaces irregular or composed of a series of angles, whereby as the cream is dashed against them it is given an upward and rolling backward movement, and

is at the same time broken and agitated by the irregular surface with which it is brought in contact, all of which will be hereinafter more particularly set forth.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof, and on which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts, Figure l is a top or plan view of a churn embodying my said invention; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3, an end elevation, and Fig. 4 a longitudinal vertical section.

In said drawings the portions marked A represent the framework, upon which the churn is mounted; B, doubleinclined tracks, secured to said frame-work O, the churnbody, a and D a hat strainer used in separating the butter from the fluids after churning. The

frame A is any suitable frame for supporting the tracks and the churn thereon,and is intended to rest directly and steadily upon the door 0 or ground. It preferably extends up on each side toabove the churn-body, as a guard to prevent any liability of the churn-body being knocked ofi accidentally. The tracks B are secured to theinside faces of said frame-work one on one side and one on the other-and are inclined in both directions from the center, as shown. The inclines should be curved, and preferably terminate in a sli ht upward rise at the outer ends. At the highest point pins or stops 1) are preferably placed as a guard to revent the churn-wheels from running over this point. The churn-body C is substantially rectangular in general outline, although its ends are preferably formed like the sides of a hexagon or octagon, in order to more effectually agitate the. cream as it comes in contact therewith. Upon the lower corners of this body are secured four wheels, 0, which rest upon the tracks B. The body is also provided with a faucet at or near one end in its lower side, by which the contents of the churn may be drawn off.

As an implement to be used in connection with the churn after the churning has been done, I provide a flat strainer, D, which may be placed across the center of the churn, after moving off the butter to one end, and then by tipping up the churn on the other end the butter-milk will run to that end and may be drawn off through the faucet. Afterward water may be introduced for washing the butter, and drawn off in the same way.

The operation of my said invention is as follows: The churn being mounted in position and the cream put therein, the churn-body 7 is moved back and forth on the tracks by hand or any other force, and, as will be readily understood, the ends are continually alternately elevated and depressed, and the motion ofthe cream is therefore one of continual rising up and falling over, which thoroughly breaks and agitates it and causes the butter to come very rapidly.

By the peculiar formation of the track and ends of the churn-body, the cream at the limit of each movement or travel of the churn is caused to surge up over and then backward, not only agitating the, cream, but also materially assisting in starting sald churn-body back on its return movement, and thus mako ingthe labor of operating it much lighter, as will be readily understood.

Having thus fully described my'said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 5 1'. The combination of the supporting-frame, double inclined tracks, the inclination whereof is in the form of curved lines, said curvature terminating in a slight upward inclination at the outer ends, and a churn-body provided with trucks or wheels and mounted on said track, substantiallyas described.

2. The combination, in a churn, of a snp- In witness whereof I have liereunto set my porting frame-work, double inclined tracks hand and seal, at Indianapolis, Indiana, this [0 thereon, and a churn-body mounted on said 26th day'of November, A. D. 1885. tracks the ends of said body being formed of 5 a general concave shape, with surfaces c0m-' JAMES KELSO posed of a series of angles, substantially as In presence of-- shown and described, and for the purposes 0. BRADFORD, specified. I E. W. BRADFORD.