US731482A

US731482A - Cheese-press.

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Publication number: US731482A
Application number: US9538602A
Authority: US
Inventors: Ira Erl Marsh
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1902-02-24
Filing date: 1902-02-24
Publication date: 1903-06-23
Anticipated expiration: 1920-06-23

Description

N0 MODEL.

No. 731,482. PATENTED JUNE 23, 1903.

I. E. MARSH.

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Patented June 23, 1.903.

IRA ERL MARSH, OF REDHOUSE, NEWV YORK.

CHEESE-PRESS.

SPEGIFICATIONforming part of Letters.Patent No. 731,482, dated June 23, 1903. Application filed February 24, 1902. Serial No. 95,386. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRA ERL'MARSH, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Redhouse, in the county of Cattaraugus and State of New,York,'have invented a ne'wand useful Cheese-Press, of which the following is a specification. 7

My invention is an improved cheese-press adapted for use in expressing the whey from a gang, of cheeses simultaneously; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cheese-press embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same.

In the embodiment of my invention I provide a horizontally-disposed frame 1, which is here shown as provided with wooden sides 2.

and a head 3, which connects them together at one end. The said frame is provided with suitable supporting legs orstandards,'of. which one is here shown at 4. The'inner sides of the side members 2 of the frame in practice converge toward each other downwardly, and thereby the cheeses in the cheesehoops 5 are adapted to be placed between and supported by the sides 2.- Under the frame 1 is a longitudinally-disposed inclined trough 6 to receive the whey expressed from the cheeses and carry off the same.

A cross head 7 is secured transversely to and between the sides 2 andin practice is adjustably disposed therein. During the operation of the press the said cross-head is immovable. The said cross-head, which forms a nut, is provided with a threaded central opening which is engaged by a longitudinally-movable compression-screw 8. On the same is keyed or otherwise rigidly secured a ratchet-wheel 9. A lever 10 is revolubly mounted with relation to the screw and has a pawl 11, here shown as agravity-pawl,which engages the ratchet-wheel. It will be understood that by imparting oscillating motion to the lever 10, which is done manually, the screw may be rotated, and hence-caused to move endwise. A plunger or follower 12 is here shown as swiveled to the inner end of the screw. The diameter of said head or plunger, which is circular in form ,is such as receive one of the cheese-hoops. 'tice this hoop is made of wood. A springspring supports 17.

therefrom. A hoop 14, which is carried by the follower 12, forms, in effect, a flange the interior diameter of which is somewhat in excess of the exterior diameter of the cheesehoops, so that said hoop 14 is adapted to In pracpressed follower or plunger 15 is disposed opposite the plunger or follower 12 and in practice is circular in form, is of'the same diameter as the cheese-hoops, and is made of two wooden disks 15, which are secured together by screws. The spring 16 is a coiled extensile spring, the ends of which bear, respectively, against the follower 15 and the head 3. Said head and follower are provided on their opposing sides at theircenterswith cylindrical spring-supporting elements 17,wh.ich in practice are made of cast-iron and are secured, respectively, to the head 3 and follower 15, each by a single screw 18." The said screws extend through central openings with which the cylindrical spring-supports are provided. In practice said spring-supports are of about the same diameter as the interior diameter of the coiledspring 16, the coils at the ends of the spring fitting snugly around the saidsupport and bearingagainst the head and the follower 15. In the event that the spring is of insufficient strength a smaller similar coiled spring 19 may be placed therein, in which event the ends of the smaller spring will bear against the opposing ends of the The function of the spring 16 and the follower 15, as will be understood, is to compensate for the slack occasioned by the shrinkage of the curd while the press is in operation and is left unattended, as during the night, so that a constant pressure is applied to the curd.

Having thus described my invention, I Claim?- I In a cheese-press, the combination of a supporting-frame, a screw-operated follower having a flange exteriorly engaging the adjacent one of a plurality of cheese-hoops disposed-in the supporting-frame, a counter-follower interiorly engaging the adjacent cheese-hoop at the opposite end of the press-frame, cylin- ICO drical supporting elements upon the oppos- I In testimony that I claim the foregoing as ing sides of said counter-follower and head my own I have hereto afifixed my signature in of the press-frame, a coiled spring exteriorly the presence of. two Witnesses. engaging said supporting elements and an IRA ERL MARSH.

auxiliary coiled spring disposed Within the Witnesses:

primary coiled spring and engaging the ends THOMAS L. NEWTON, of the supporting elements.

S. G. BRYAN.