IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PRESSING AND MOULDING BUTTER
Year: 1884

page_text: I JOHN MAUDE of West Vale, Greetland near Halifax, in the County of York,
Worsted Spinner and Farmer do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PRESSING AND MOULDING BUTTER," to be as
follows:-
The object of my Invention is to provide simple, and effective machinery for
manipulating, pressing, and moulding butter from the churn and expressing all
water, salt and milk therefrom, and making each roll or pad the exact weight
required by measure. Being properly worked the butter is passed to a cylinder,
to be pressed and moulded, the cylinder is preferably of metal, and is pivotted
about midway, so as to be turned over or reversed, the butter is placed in the
cylinder at one end, and is forced out through dies, or moulds, at the other, the
cylinder end, through which the butter is forced out, is made of smaller diameter,
the dies are fixed on the smaller end, for making four or six rolls at once, or for
pound pada as required. Below the cylinder is a piston carried on a screwed shaft,
upon this vertical screwed shaft, is a bevel wheel, gearing in another bevel wheel,
upon an liorizontal shaft, this horizontal shaft is operated by a handle, or hand
wheel, and speeded fast or slow, by turning one way or the other, the piston moves
up within the cylinder, and compresses; and forces the butter through the dies, or
moulds, and an indicator indicates the height of the rolls, as they are forced out,
they are then cut off by a wire, or string, the required length and weight; and are
all exactly alike.
The dies or moulds are made so as to mark upon the butter any forms or marks
required, should the butter be at all rancid, or sour, a die is placed at the cylinder
end full of small perforations through which the butter is forced and thoroughly
cleansed and purified.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Waterhouse Chambers,
Crossley Street, Halifax,
Agent for the Petitioner.

page_text: I JOHN MAUDE of West Vale Greetland near Halifax in the County of York
Worsted Spinner and Farmer do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PRESSING AND MOULDING BUTTER," and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:—
The object of my Invention is to provide simple, and effective machinery for
manipulating, pressing and moulding butter from the churn, and expressing all
water, and milk there from, and making each roll, or pad the exact weight required
by measure.
Fig. 1, shews a front elevation of butter maker up.
Fig. 2, shews a side elevation of Fig. 1.
Figs. 4, 5, 6 and 7 shew forms of dies.
After being sufficiently worked the butter is passed to a cylinder F see Figs. 1
and 2 to be pressed and moulded the cylinder is preferably of metal, and is
pivotted at Fi, about midway, so that it can be turned over or reversed when
putting in the butter, the butter is placed in the cylinder at one end, and is forced
out through dies or moulds H, H₁ or H³, at the other end, this end of the cylinder,
through which the butter is forced is made smaller in diameter at J, the dies H
or H, are fixed on this smaller end by clips K, for making two or four rolls at
once according to the dies attached, or it will make flat pound prints when a
suitable die such as H³, is used. Below the cylinder is a piston L, carried on a
screwed shaft M upon this vertical screwed shaft is a bevel wheel N, gearing with
another bevel wheel P, upon an horizontal shaft R, upon this horizontal shaft is a
gear wheel S, gearing into a loose gear wheel S¹, this shaft is operated by a handle
or hand wheel placed upon the shaft or stud of either wheel and so speeded fast or
slow, by turning one way or the other this piston L, moves up and down within
the cylinder F and compresses, and forces the butter, through the dies or moulds H,
H or H³ making it into rolls or flat prints as desired, and an indicator T, indicates
by finger T the length of the rolls, as they are forced out, they are then cut off by
a wire or string, the required length and weight, half pound, one pound, one pound
and a half, or any weight required, and are all exactly alike, the dies or moulds H
or H', are made so as to mark upon the butter any forms or marks required; should
the butter be at all rancid or sour, a die such as H³, see Fig. 6 (is placed at the
cylinder end,) full of small perforations, through which the butter is forced and
thoroughly cleansed and purified.
W is the hinged portable table or cover, which can be taken off at will by
increasing the size of the cylinder and apparatus any number of rolls can be formed
at the same time according to the size of apparatus.
By this means there is a great saving in time and labour, the rolls being a better
shape as well as more compressed, and so better for keeping, all butter milk being
expressed.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is -
1. The combination of piston, cylinder and dies, for making numbers of prints
of butter of equal weight, by measure.
2. The combination of piston, cylinder, and dies for making at one time any
number of rolls of butter, of any required equal weight by measure.
Dated this Seventeenth day of July 1884
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax,
Agent for the Applicant.