Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-08-06

near the center carries off the
cream. On is discharged below
the other and they are caught in
different pans or receptacles and
thus CARRIED away from the ma.
GIMME.
The various patterns Of sapa-
ratOrs found on the market have
ufferent devices in the bowl for
aiding the separations These are
always purely aids. The old
style. hDLOw-bowl machines had
simply a bowl with a, wing sol
derad to- the inside in line with
he axis or central shaft to
make the milk revOlve with the
BOWL. There was more or less
n-mxing of cream and milk al
Ter it started to separate, and
the efficiency was low both as
. closen.Ss of Swimming and to
quantity of work done. Every
internal device used in s,rpra'
tors has been put There to Ov-
ercome these difficulties - to
keep the milk from remlxlng, to
make it pass through the bowl in
a steady flow, and to divide it
up in such ways that a greater
quantity Of milk can be PASSED
through the bowl ard rsoIsi72
he action of the separating force.
The steady, even flow secured by
A.se devices is also obtained
or helped by perfectly STEADY
and uniform motto nOf the. bowl
If the machine shakes while 1t Is
}Nlmmlng there wl.. Ue some IN
5ermixing of the milk and cream
anG the result Is poor Sklmmlrg'
The operator should aim to Sc
cure two things if he expects his
machine to do good work; W|
\ perfectly true notion OF BOWL
Il
ana % a sufficient speed (which
must be unifOrm) to create force
for separating. In order to have
the perfect motion of the bowl,
the machine must be set Level and
be kept clean and well Oiled The
oil should be thin or hight, SO
that it will not gum the wearing
parts. A heavy oil will make
the machine run hard and will
gum quickly on small high+speed
bearings. ALL the bearings OF
the machine should be frequent
" flushed with coal OIL. 1t rs
we'll to make a run about once IL
two or three weeks, using coal
oil on all the bearings. Tins
keeps the parts free from gum
and washes out grit or sand that
they may have blown INTO them.
1t is an excellent plan to have a
cover of clOse-woven cloth or oil
cloth. THAT can be kept over the
machine while it is not I'M OPERA
ton. This will keep out dust
and sand and will add maternal
w to the lasting power Of the
machine. The separator should
pc set upon a good, sOld floor, so
that it will not move about as
the, operator turns the crank.
Uniform centrifugal force is
obtained by turning the crank al
a given speed at all times and
giving the crank an equal press
ure at all points in Its circuit
around its axis. All machines
have marked VI on them or given
in the. instruction book, the MUM
Der of revolutions the crank
should make per minute. Fol
low these instructions, counting
the revolutions each time the ma
chine IS operated and frequent
ly during operation, to be sure
the speed is maintained. This is
,oirt in which much careless
work is lone. Too many guess a
the speed and they seldom guess
rlgh:. 1t is a good rule never
to guess at anything when it is
possible to know. The writer
has found variations all the way
from twenty-five to seventy-flve
revolutions per minute in the OPP
ration of machines by guess. At
neither of these extremes would
the operator believe that he was
wrong, until he had been made to
count the number of revolutions
by the watch.