US628988A - Combined churn and butter-worker. - Google Patents

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No. 628,988. Patented Iu'ly I8, |899.

' W. E.- PENN.

COMBINED CHURN AND BUTTER WORKER.

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COMBINED CHURN AN D` BUTTER-WORKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 628,988, dated July 1S, 1899 Application filed November 21, 1898. Serial No. 697,011. (No modell) T0 tZZ wiz/0m t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. PENN, of Lake Mills, in the county of Jefferson and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Combined Churn and-Butter-VVorker, of which the following is a'deseription, reference being had to the accom panying drawingsvhich are a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the combined churn and butter-worker for which Letters Patent No. 600,168 were issued to myself and Charles S. lBrown on March S, 1898. The present invention is directed to simplifying the construction, whereby expense in building,r is lessened, friction is obviated, considerable wear of parts is eliminated, anda saving of power is accomplished that can be utilized to obtain results on material; to supplying devices. whereby better adaptation of the structure to its work is secured, resulting in capability of easy adjustment,of ready and sure alinement,of strength and endurance of parts without liability to get out of condition, and of better results on the material operated on.

Theinvention consists in the machine, and its parts and combinations of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed, or their equivalents.

In the drawings, Figure lis an elevation of the front end of the machine. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal central section of Ithe drum and related mechanism. Fig.3 is a vertical longitudinal section of thedrumand related mechanism.A Fig. '-1 is a front view of a fragment 'of the head of the drum and related parts, showing details of construction. Fig.5 shows the details of construction of a wheel-shifting lever. Fig. 64 exhibits the details of a clutch device. v y

In the drawings, S is a frame of suitable size and form for supporting the operative mechanism,whieh is advisably made chiefly of iron and steel. p 4

9 is a cylindrical drum made principally of wood or analogous material, non-corrosive by the action of moisture or of acids. The drum is provided with a suitable door (not shown) for the introduction and removal of the cream, milk, and butter. The drum is supported rotatably ou the frame by means of the gudfixed ou the frontend of the drum 9. `tegral double wheel 2G, splined on the coun- 95 geon 10, fixed to the rear head of the druln centrally, and the hollowgudgeon 11, having a spreading or spider-like foot12 fixed to the 55 front end of the drum centrally, which gudgeons respectively have their bearings in boxes 13, supported centrally, tiltably, and

adjustably on the adjusting-screws 14, disposed vertically and held loosely in position 6o by parts of the frame through which they eX- tend and being supported vertically adjustably by the nuts 15 turning thereon and resting on the frame and being locked in place by thelock-nuts 16, also turning thereon against the frame. The boxes 13 are held loosely in place but against lateral movement by the frame immediately beneath them and guards 17 on the frame adjacent to the ends of the boxes. i This construction permits of 7e the raising or lowering of either end of the drum, thereby adapting the construction for securing proper alinement of its bearings'. `This is especially desirable in a machine ot' this character that is portable in its nature and is liable to beplaced on an uneven floor `or to get some unusual strain in shipment that will disarrange or twist the frame more or less, and which, by reason of the fact that these machines are frequently set up where 8o the necessary tools for straightening or truing the frame or drum are not at hand, is a most valuable construction for securing readily and completely the properalinement of the frame, the drum, and operativemechanism.

ter-shaft 23, is so disposed that its larger wheel meshes with the small wheel 21 on shaft 18, and by shifting thewheel 26 along on the counter-shaft 23 the larger wheel is put out of mesh with the wheel 21 and the smaller roo cog-wheel of the Wheel 26 is put in mesh with the larger wheel 20 on the shaft 1S., By this means the drum can be rotated rapidly for churning by putting the wheel 26 in mesh A counter- 9o cess therefor in the hub of the wheel.

with' the wheel 20011 the driving-shaft 1S or can be rotated slowly, as is desirable when working butter, by shifting the wheel 2G into mesh with the wheel 2l on the shaft 18. For shifting the wheel 26 on the shaft 23 abar27, lslidable endwise in ways therefor on the frame, is provided with a nger 28, that projects laterally therefrom and rides in an annular groove therefor in the wheel 26. A shifting-lever 29 is pivoted medially on the frame and its lower extremity enters loosely a vsocket therefor in the bar 27. A stud-bolt 30, fixed in the lever 29, projects through a curved elongated slot in the frame and is provided with a thumb-nut turning thereon against the frame, whereby the shifting-lever 29 can be locked in position.

Two sets of parallel and preferably-corrugated wood rollers 31 3l, located in the drum and radially distant from the axis thereof, are mounted rotatably in the heads of the drum. Each roller is provided with a journal 32 at its front and at its rear end and has its j bearing in a metal plate-like box 33, secured to the exterior surface of the drumhead conveniently by means of heavy wood-screws 3a. These plates have laterally-projecting cylindrical parts 35, having an integral bottom or end through which the journal 32 passes and in which it has its bearing and support. rlhese cylind rical parts 35 are somewhat larger in diameter than the diameters of the journals 32, thereby forming about the journals annular chambers adapted to receive packing therein about the journals, and'hollow nuts or screw-threaded glands 36 turn into the open ends of the cylindrical partsA 35, forming stuffing-boxes for holding lubricating material therein. The cylindrical parts 35 are of such extent laterally as not to extend entirely through the heads of the drum when the plates 33 rest against the outer surface of the drumhead to which theyare secured.

This leaves an interior portion of the wood` drumhead opposite the end of the cylindrical parts 35 and around the journals 32, thus by end, which cog-Wheels on each set of rollers mesh with each other, and the inner cogwheel of each set meshes with a cog-wheel 38, fixed on an arbor 39, having its bearing rotatably in the hollow gudgeon ll, through which it extends axially. A cog-wheel 40, loose on the arbor 39, meshes with the cog- Wheel 22 on the driving-shaft 18 and is adapted to be clutched rotatably to the arbor 39 by shifting it thereon into engagement with the transverse and projecting pin 4l, fixed in the arbor, which enters a complementary re- For shifting the wheel 4:0 on. the arbor 39 into or ing-lever maybe locked in position, securing l the wheel 40 outof or in engagementwith the pin 41.

A beveled rib 44 on the inner wall of the drum is adapted for carrying butter away from the drum and onto the rollers 3l.

What I claim as my invention isj 1. The combination with a horizontallydisposed rotatable drumprovided with fixed gudgeons projecting centrallyfrom the heads thereof atboth ends, of a frame provided with gudgeon-box sockets having substantially flat vertical end walls, boxes in the sockets supporting said gudgeons and adjustable vertically and tiltable in the sockets toward and from the drum, the ends of the boxes abutting against the fiat end walls of the sockets, and screws turning in the frame upwardly against and supporting said boxes tiltably thereon.

2. In a churn and butter-worker, the combination, with a rotatable cylindrical drumprovided with an internal ann ular-rack fixed on the head of'the drum, of a'counter-shaft provided with a pinion meshing with said rack and with an integral large cog-wheel and small cog-wheel splined on the shaft, a driving-shaft provid ed witha sm all cog-Wheel and a large cog-wheel fixed thereon at a distance apart, the wheels on the driving-shaft being adapted respectively to mesh with the large and small integral cog-wheels on the counter-shaft severally, and means for shiftingthe integral wheel on the counter-shaft.

3. In a churn and butter-worker, the combination with a rotatable cylindrical drum provided with an annular rack fixed on the head of the drum, of a counter-shaft provided with a pinion meshing with said rack 'and with an integral large cog-wheel and small cog-wheel splined on the shaft,a driving-shaft provided with a small cog-wheel and a large cog-wheel fixed thereon ata distance apart the wheels on the driving-shaft being adapted respectively to mesh with the large and small integral cog-Wheels on the counter-shaft severally, a third cog-wheel on the driving-shaft, an arbor mounted in and concentric with a gudgeon on the drum provided with a wheel meshing with rollerwheels, a cog-wheel loose on the arbor, and means for clutching this last-mentioned cogwheel to its arbor.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM E. PENN.

Vitn esses:

A. W. GREENWOOD, G. E. GREENWOOD.

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