Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-01-13
THE CREAMERY.
In Winter, When the Factory Does Not
Run Every Day.

In Winter, When the Factory Does Not
Run Every Day.
When you do not run every day, 1t
is good plan to drain all your pipes as
soon as you are done work for the day.
Very little freezing will spring a globe
or check valve SO that it will leak,
and leaky valves around creamery are
very inconvenient. 1t is very good
plan to take the cap off the check valve
and take the checks out if there is any
danger of them freezing, but in putting
them back in place be careful and put
them in right side up. once knew of
case where the butter maker put in
the checks wrong side up, the injector
would not run, and he could get no wa
ter in the boiler, which caused him
some inconvenience before he discovered
the trouble and remedied it.
When you have any trouble with the
injector SO that it will not work prop
erly and fill the boiler, it is generally
caused by some obstruction in the pipe
between the injector and the boiler, or
by the check valve leaking steam and
making the injector warm so that the
steam does not condense fast enough to
form vacuum SO that the water will
run through it. The point where both
the water and steam strike at the same
time must be cold or your injector will
not run properly, or sometimes the in
jector itself gets clogged up and will
not run. When that is the case, they can
be taken apart and cleaned out.
know of one case where some pack
ing from the pump had worked into the
injector and clogged it SO no water could
get through it, but when cleaned out
ran all right. After the engine in the
creamery has run several years (and the
smaller its capacity is the quicker it
will give QUIT the governor will get
worn so that it will not regulate the
speed of the engine. That is caused by
the arms of the governor balls being
worn off enough so that they do not
close the valve that shuts off the steam
from the engine.
When the engine is new, the arms of
the governor have square corners on
them, and as the engine runs faster the
balls run faster and raise higher up and
press down on the valve stem and shut
off enough Of the steam to control the
speed of the engine, but after the edges
of the arms get worn off SO that they
are rounding the valve stem seems to
be too short. and the pressure of the
arms of the governor balls does not close
the valve enough to shut off the steam;
when you throw the separator or
the churn belt on to tho loose pulleys,
the engine will run too fast, if the gov
ernor is in that condition, but it is
easily remedied if you know how to go
about it. I will explain how it can be
done: Take off one of the governor arms,
which can easily be done by taking out
small set screw which holds the bolt
in its place that the governor arm
swings on; when that is off you will find
a square headed bolt which is on top of
the valve stem, on which the arms of
the governor revolyes, which is worn
thinner by the friction of the arms rub
bling on it. Take one or two thicknesses
of sheet copper, according to how much
is worn off the original piece, cut the
copper SO it will fit on top of the square
bolt head, put them in place, put the
arm back, and if you have put enough
of the copper on top of the bolt head
and under the governor arms the gov
ernor will work as we'll as when new.
MIR. Lawson in Creamery Journal.