US454345A

US454345A - Ethan hadley

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Publication number: US454345A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-06-16
Anticipated expiration: 1908-06-16

Description

E. HADLEY.

(No Model.)

EGG BEATEB.

No. 454,345. Patented June 16,1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ETHAN HADLEY, OF CHICOPEE FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE LAMB KNITTING MACHINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

EGG-BEATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 454,345, dated June 16, 1891.

Application filed Tune 16, 1890. Serial No. 355,56L (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ETHAN HADLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicopee Falls, in the county of IIampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Egg-Beaters, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to egg-heaters; and the invention consists in certain improvements in the construction of the frame, as hereinafter more fullydescribed.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of egg-beater complete, and Figs. 2 and 3 are side elevations, partly in section, of a portion of the frame, shown enlarged for the purpose of more clearly illustrating my invention.

For the purpose of illustrating my improvement I have shown it applied to the wellknown Dover Egg-Beater, which has its frame madeof two parts,the upper portionA in the form of a handle being made of cast-iron, and the lower portion E, which serves as joure nals and supports for the heaters or floats D, being made of a single piece of wire bent to the proper form; but the invention is applicable to other styles of egg-boaters also.

The present invention relates more especially to the method used for connecting the wire to the cast-iron part of the frame, and is an improvement upon the plan shown in my patent, No. 380,564. Formerly these parts had been connected by various means; but in my patent, No. 380,564, I secure the parts by drilling holes through the oross-head or enlargement made at the lower end of castiron part A and then upsetting the protruding ends of the wire, the handle A being enlarged at the point just above these protruding ends, so as to form a shoulder or projection, which would prevent the wire from being pushed up through the holes.

My present plan consists in drilling two holes in the enlarged portion B of the castiron handle, but which holes do not extend entirelythrough, they being, more strictly speaking,.sockets or circular recesses extending about three-fourths of the way through the head B, as shown clearly in Fig. 2.

The ends of the wire E are simply out 01f and left in their natural condition, as also shown in Fig. 2, and after the floats 0r beaters have been slipped onto the wire the ends of the latter are inserted into the holes or sockets, and the metal on each end of the head B is then indented or forced inward, as represented at a, Fig. 3, by means of two pointed punches operated simultaneously by a press, they operating at points directly opposite each other, thus making the two indentations a a at one movement. As shown in Fig. 2, the holes or sockets are made very near the ends of the cross-head 13, thus leaving but a thin wall of metal between them and the outer face of the part.B at the points where the indentations a are to be made, and the result is that the metal is forced inward, so as to form an indentation e in the wire E, in which the forced-in cast metal fits and remains, as represented in Fig. 3, and thus by the simple act of subjecting the parts to the pressing action of the two punches simultaneously the parts 13 and E are securely and rigidly connected. lVhen thus united, the ends of the wire E are firmly locked in place, so that there is no possibility of their coming out, nor can the ends of the wire E be shoved up through, as they abut and rest against the solid metal. The advantages of this method of uniting the parts will be readily understood when it is borne in mind that these egg-heaters are made by the million, and in order to be sold cheaply the cost of manufacture must be reduced to the minimum. Another advantage of this plan is that it avoids the notches, projections, and upset ends incident to my former plan, in and on which the beaten egg or other matter is liable to accumulate and requiring time and care for its removal, the smooth unbroken surface being much easier kept clean. It is obvious that this method of uniting or fastening the parts together is equally applicable to that style of egg-heaters in which a single Wire or standard is united to the castiron part of the frame, and that by its use the cutting of screw-threads, the use of solder, or the upsetting 0r riveting down of the protrudin g end, or ends is avoided, thus greatly expediting and cheapening the work.

I am aware that it has been proposed to fasten the wire part of egg-beater frames to the cast-iron part by means of solder, by screw-threads, and by riveting the ends of inserted in said sockets and locked therein by indenting the outer faces of the cross-head and forcing a portion of the cast-iron into the sides of the wire, substantially as shown 15 and described.

I11 witness whereof I hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

ETIIAN HADLEY,

IVitnesses:

JAMEs H. Looms. DANIEL M. KEY.