US500021A - Half to selman u - Google Patents

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T. J. MISSILDINE.

(No Model.)

UHURN.

No. 500,021. Patented June 20, 1893.

UNTTED STATES PATENT @Tricn.

THOMAS JEFFERSON MISSILDINE, OF RAMER, ALABAMA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO SELMAN U. TURNIPSEED, OF SAME PLACE.

C H U R N SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 500,021, dated June 20, 1893.

Application filed March 23,1893. Serial No. 467,323. (No model.)

T al w7wm t may OOH/06 tween the uprights and being held in place by Be it known that I, THOMAS JEFFERSON plates or flanges don its opposite sides that MISSILDINE, a citizen of the United States, overlap the outer sides of said bars. One or residing at Ramer, in the county of Montboth of the flanges (1 may be detachable. 55 gomery and State of Alabama, have invented I Carried by the two arms E, E that project certain new and useful Improvements in horizontally from opposite ends of the block Churn-Motors; and I do declare the following D, is a cord or rope F that is passed around to be a full, clear, and exact description of the the flasher-shaft several times, which in a well invention, such as will enable others skilled known way, by the reciprocation of the block, 60

IO in the art to which it appertains to make and will impart-a rotary motion to the dasher. The use the same, reference being had to the acarm E is fixed, but the arm E is-made rotary companying drawings, and to the letters of to enable the tension of the cord orrope to be reference marked thereon, which form a part adjusted by being wound or unwound thereof this specification. upon, as occasion may require. Said arm E 65 I5 This invention relates to churns having extends entirely through the block D, from rotary dashers and my object is to provide one side to the other, and, to enable it to be an easily operated, simple and strong churn held from turning, it is made square or polygof the class indicated, and capable of produconal at its outer end, as shown at e, to engage ing butter very quickly. a correspondingly shaped opening in the side 70 To these ends said invention consists in the of the adjoining plate or flange d. When it is churn having the construction and combinadesired to turn the rod E, it is moved longition of parts hereinafter specified,'and shown tudinally sufiiciently to free the squared part in the accompanying drawings, in whichc from the opening, when it will be free to be I Figure 1, is a perspective view of the inrotated. The block D is reciprocated by 7 2 5 vention'. Fig. 2 is a vertical section. Fig. 3, means of a lever G pivoted at its lower end is a detail view of the cord-tightening device. to a horizontal beam 9 that extends between Reference now being had to the details of the posts 0, O and being passed through a slot the drawings by letter A designates the spinor opening 71. in the center of the block. By dle or shaft of the dasher, Whose upper porproperly proportioning the lever in respect 8o tion is round, while its lower end is square to pivot, power, &c the labor necessary to be in cross-section. Projecting from each side expended in working the churn can be mateof the squared lower end is a series of radial rially reduced. fiat arms a, a, those on diametrically oppo- 'The churn I (shown in dotted lines), is supsite sides being in line with each other, and ported on a table or platform J, mounted on 8 5 opposite the spaces between those of the other two horizontal beams that extend from the two sides. This latter alternate arrangement, lower ends of the uprights O, O. providesa very efficient dasher. At its upper To brace the framing thus far described, I end the shaft A is journaled in outwardly employ diagonal bars K, K, although, if deopening slots, provided in two parallel horisired,these may be omitted as obviouslywith- 90 4o zontalarms b, 19, arranged one'above the other, out them the structure is very strong and and fastened to and projecting from thelongicapable of long use without impairment. tudinal center of two parallel horizontal bars. To reduce friction between the blockD and B, B, that are supported at their two ends its guides, I propose to employ anti-friction upon vertical posts or uprights O, O. In adrollers, suitably disposed, and rollers are also 5 dition to .the two bars B, B, there are two to be placed in the slot for the lever to bear other like bars B,B, parallel with each other, against. It will be noted that the lever passes and said bars B, B, are also supported by the up between the bars B, B, and B, B, so that uprights O, C. by engaging said bars it can be made to re- In the horizontal space or slot 1), between lieve the flanges cl of some of the work of I00 the bars B, B, and B, B, I place a slide-block guiding and holding the block D. It will also 7 or shuttle D, adapted to be reciprocated bebe seen that the rope or cord operates to hold the dasher-shaft in its place in the slots in the arms I), b. I Having thus described my invention, what Iclaim to be new, and desire to secure by Let- 5 ters Patent, is-

1. In combination with the rotary flasher, a reciprocable block, two arms projecting therefrom, one'of which is adapted to be rotated and moved longitudinally to adj net the [O tension of the cord, and the'cord connecting said armsaud said dasher, said movable arm having a polygonal part to co-operate with a like shaped opening in .the block, substantially as described. I 5 2. In combination with a rotary dasher, the

TllOS. JEFFERSON MISSILDINE.

Witnesses:

, B. H. BOYD,

R. H. BozMAN.

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