Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-10-25
The Clipper Churn.

AAC OuppCA Ouu1hs
Of patent churns and washing ma
chimes there is no end. The field of in.
vention in this direction has been cult
waited, seemingly, to the furthcst limit
of mans ingenuity, and it would appear
to be the most unpromising department
of invention in which to look for any
thing novel, much less of great practi.
cal superiority. Yet, from this well
cultivated field, our fellow citizens, J
A. Lyon and Samuel Leslie, have cvolv-
ed an invention which is not only novel
in design and construction, but which
we are convinced, from observation OF
it's working is destined to take very
high place among the abor-savng i'm
plements of the dairy We refer to the
Clipper Churn, for which the parties
named have just taken out patent, and
in the perfection of which they have
spent more than year of close study and
experiment. We despair of giving our
readers clear idea of it's construction
and the principle upon which it oper-
ates, but we will try very briefly to de-
scribe it. The churn proper, is about the
shape and proportions of water pail.
When operating, it stands upon round
platform, which, by proper gearing and
a crank, is revolvcd horizontally at the
rate of about 400 revolutions per min
ute. This gearing and platform are
supported by frame, the four posts of
which extend above the churn and sup
port stationary top, about one quarter
of an inch above the upper edge of the
tub or churn. In this top is round
hole about Z inches in diameter, which
admits full current of air to the cream
being churned. Suspended, also, from
this cover, inside Of the churn, is block
of wood of peculiar shape, having wood
en- pins stuck in it on one side. The
use of this block, OF breaker, will be ex-
planned further on. This is rough de-
scription Of the churn; now for it's
working. The cream is poured into the
churn, and the crank set in motion
The cream, by centrifugal force, is sent
to the sides of the churn, and these, be-
ing faring, it climbs toward the top, be-
fore reaching which, however, it encoun-
tiers the breaker, and is scattered in a
shower of fine spray toward the center
and bottom of the tub, there to take
the upward journey again. By this
means every drop of the cream comes
in contact with the air, and the time
spent in bringing butter is very much
shortened. We shall not repeat the
stories that have been told us of the
fabulously short time in which butter
has been churned in the Clipper, but we
will say that we saw, with our own eyes,
a mess of ordinary cream churned by it,
and the butter gathered in precisely
tmo minutes. The most refractory
cream, over which the head of the fam
lily may have expended more time, pers-
piration and profanity, than would
have built stone wall, when introduced
into the " Clipper" never fails to come
to time-and butter-in from 7 to 10
minutes, and the temperature is not of
much consequence, either Farmers
and dairymen, who have seen it at work,
pronounce it truly wonderful inven-
ton.
The inventors are both poor men, and
in order to get the means to introduce
their invention, they were obliged to
make a sale of the Iowa territory at the
best price they could command Has
ner Il Jewel, attorneys of this city,
were the purchasers, the price paid be-
ing $4,000. We understand that they
intend to commence the manufacture
OF the churns at once in this city, pro-
vlded proper arrangements can be made.
The Manufacturing Company ought to
be able to offer as liberal terms as any
outside parties, and we hope to see
them add this to the other branches of
their business.