IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR BEATING, CHURNING, OR MIXING LIQUID OR PARTLY LIQUID COMPOUNDS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William John Morier, of Glasgow, in the County
of Lanark, North Britain, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR BEATING, CHURNING, OR MIXING LIQUID OR PARTLY LIQUID
COMPOUNDS."
Sealed the 4th January 1876, and dated the 4th November 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William John Morier
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 4th November 1875.
I, WILLIAM JOHN MORIER, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS POR BEATING, CHURNING, OR MIXING LIQUID OR
PARTLY LIQUID COMPOUNDS," to be as follows:-
:-
This Invention relates to improved and very simple apparatus whereby
the processes of beating, churning, or mixing liquid or partly liquid
compounds can be performed in a more expeditious and effectual manner
than by apparatus hitherto used for such purposes.

page_text: In its simplest form the improved apparatus comprises a cylindrical
vessel, which is formed with a conical bottom, and which is provided
with a plunger or reciprocator of a conical form like the bottom of the
vessel, but perforated, this plunger or perforated cone being fixed to a
rod, which passes out through an aperture in the cover of the vessel and
has a handle attached to it externally. The liquid or partly liquid
compound, such as milk, or the contents of one or more eggs, being put
into the vessel and the cover closed down, the beating, churning, or
mixing action is effected by working the perforated cone up and down
by means of its rod, and more or less rapidly, according to circumstances.
In large machines the rod of the cone may be worked by means of a
lever or a revolving crank shaft.
In some cases there may be two or more cones on the reciprocating
rod, and perforated diaphragms may be fixed in the vessel between each
movable cone and the next one.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William John Morier in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 20th April 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
JOHN MORIER, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William John Morier,
Her special licence that I, the said William John Morier, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William John Morier, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, usc, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR BEATING,

page_text: CHURNING, OR MIXING LIQUID OR PARTLY LIQUID COMPOUNDS," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said William John Morier, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William John Morier, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement in writing, reference being had to the accom-
panying Drawings, that is to say :—
My said Invention relates to improved and very simple apparatus
whereby the processes of beating, churning, or mixing liquid or partly
liquid compounds can be performed in a more expeditious and effectual
manner than by apparatus hitherto used for such purposes.
One simple modification of the apparatus comprises a cylindrical
vessel, which is formed with a conical bottom, and which is provided
with a perforated plunger or reciprocator of a conical form like the
bottom of the vessel, this plunger or perforated cone being fixed to a
rod, which passes out through an aperture in the cover of the vessel, and
has a handle attached to it externally. The liquid or partly liquid
compound being put into the vessel and the cover closed down, the
beating, churning, or mixing action is effected by working the perforated
cone up and down by means of its rod.
In other modifications adapted for large machines two or more per-
forated cones are fixed to the reciprocating rod, and perforated
diaphragms of the same form as the cones are fixed in the vessel
between each movable cone and the next one. The reciprocating rod
may be worked by means of a lever or revolving crank.
And in order that my said Invention and the manner of performing
the same may be properly understood I hereunto append a Sheet of
explanatory Drawings to be herein-after referred to, and representing.
two modifications of my improved apparatus. In these Drawings the
same reference numerals are used to mark the same or like parts.
wherever they are repeated.

page_text: Having thus particularly described my said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same I have to state that I am aware that
beaters or mixers have been made with flat discs and flat bottoms, and I
do not claim such forms, but that what I believe to be novel and
original, and claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before
in part recited Letters Patent is, the constructing of apparatus for
beating, churning, or mixing liquid or partly liquid compounds with
one or more perforated cones, arranged to reciprocate towards and from
one or more fixed cones, substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William John Morier, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of March, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six.
WILLIAM JOHN MORIER. (L.s.)