MENTS IN BUTTER WORKERS AND DAIRY TABLES COMBINED to bo
Year: 1884

page_text: I ROBERT THOMAS WILLIAMS of Waterloo Farm Fromefield Frome in the County
of Somerset Farmer do hereby declaro the nature of my invention for IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BUTTER WORKERS AND DAIRY TABLES COMBINED to bo as follows:-
•
My improved Machine serves two purposes viz (1) that of a Butter Worker
and (2) that of a Dairy Table.
As a Butter Worker it is used for the purpose of cleansing or working and also
for salting Butter after it is taken from the Churn. When converted or altered
into a table it is used for weighing up and moulding butter upon.
It consists of a tray similar to a Butler's tray mounted on four legs the legs
being in pairs and one pair shorter than the other; and which Tray is so fixed that
it can be placed either level or on a slope to meet the requirements of both a Butter
Worker and a Dairy Table-A small portion of the Tray at one end thereof is
divided off to form a box.
Upon the tray a frame is fitted and is worked up and down the Tray by means
of a small upright handle in the top of the frame.
In this frame a grooved scolloped Roller is made to work by means of an ordinary
winch handle.
By the forward and backward movement of the frame and the revolution of the
Roller over the Butter which is placed in the tray the moisture is pressed out of
and the salt worked in. My improved Roller being smaller in the centre causes
the butter when rolled out by it to be higher in the centre thus preventing the
moisture pressed out from lying on the butter and in fact causing it to flow off
from the centre of the butter over the sides thereof into the tray.
India rubber or metal springs are applied to the said Roller either by being
fastened to small pulley wheels attached to the spindles or axles of the roller and
the sides of the said frame; or they are contained in revolving metal cases fitted
to the sides of the said frames over the sockets in which the axles of the Roller
work These springs are so applied as to facilitate the removal of the Roller from
the frame,

page_text: The Roller is fastened in the frame by means of a bolt pin or revolving plate
and so that the Roller can be almost instantly removed therefrom.
The special features of my improvements are:
1. That the said Roller is made in a form gradually diminishing in size from
each end to the centre and not made of the same size from end to end.
2. The manner in which the said Roller is fastened in the frame so that it may
be instantly reinoved.
3. The manner of applying the springs either above or below the Spindle of the
Roller.
4. The manner of making and fixing that portion of the Table styled the Tray
by which it can be brought from the horizontal position to the slope or brought
back again to the horizontal position.
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A. PHILIP WILLIAMS,
Agent for Robert Thomas Williams.

page_text: I ROBERT THOMAS WILLIAMS of Waterloo Farm Fromefield Frome in the
County of Somerset Farmer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTER WORKERS AND DAIRY TABLES COMBINED and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement namely:-
My Butter Worker.and Dairy Table combined consists of a Table or Tray A
Figs 1, 2 and 4 in the annexed Drawings made of any kind of timber consisting of
a bottoin two sides and two ends, the bottom projecting about one inch beyond the
sides, a portion of one end of the Table or Tray being divided off to form a small
box B Fig 1, 2, and 4: this Table or Tray stands upon a framework consisting of
two pairs of legs or two trussels C¹ and C³ Figs 1, 2, and 4 connected together by
two or more tie pieces D Figa 1, 2 and 4 and fixed by means of a pair of hinges to
the longer pair of legs or trussel C' Fig: 1. one pair of legs or trussel being longer
than the other pair of legs or trussel which gives a slope to the Table or Tray-
Under the Table or Tray at the lower end thereof a piece of wood F Fig: 8. of the
thickness of the difference in the length of the two pairs of legs or two trussels and
extending the full width of the Table or Tray is fastened to two Bars H H Fig 8
forming a sliding frame, and by raising the lower end of the Table or Tray a few
inches and pushing forward the sliding frame the said piece of wood F is brought
on or over the shorter pair of legs or trussel C thus bringing the Table or Tray
from the slope as shewn in Fig 1 to a horizontal position as shewn in Fig 2 and by
pulling back the sliding frame the Table or Tray is again brought to the slope as
in Fig. 1. When used as a table the Table or Tray is required to be level and for
the purposes of a Butter Worker to be on a slope.
A frame W: Fig 1 (hereinafter called "the Travelling frame") formed of three
pieces of wood two side pieces and a connecting piece on the top with_an_upright
handle in the centre of the latter piece. In each of the side pieces I Fig 5 a hole
or socket J Fig 5 is made in which the axles of the Roller (hereinafter described)
work; from this hole or socket an opening is cut to the outside edge of the
said side pieces either perpendicularly thus
or at an anglo
thus
to remove the Roller, the said Roller being provented from
rising out of its socket by means of a bolt pin or revolving plate or revolving
Case K Fig 5 and R. Fig. 6. placed in over or across the opening. To each of the
said side pieces under the said hole or socket a small pulley wheel L Fig 7 is fixed.
This Travelling frame is made to fit the Table or Tray along which it travels from
end to end.
The said Roller M Fig 3 which is made of a piece of timber solid or otherwise
turned or worked to any required dimensions gradually diminishing from each end
to the centre and grooved in any number of grooves from end to end and having
an iron spindle or axlo at each end thereof, upon which spindles or axles small
pulley wheels N Fig 7 are fitted or placed.
Springs O¹ and O2 Figs 7 and 6 made either of India Rubber or metal are
applied either below or above the axles of the Roller.
When applied below (as shown in Fig 7) the axles the springs O¹ Fig 7 are
fastened to or over the before mentioned pulley wheels L and N Fig 7 one on the
axle the other on the travelling frame; which Springs O¹ can be instantly removed,
the Roller M separated from the Travelling frame W, and the Travelling fraue
removed from the Table or Tray A, or instantly refitted to the Table or Tray as
may be required.

page_text: When the Springs are applied above (as shown in Fig 6) the axles the pulley
wheels Land N: Fig 7. are dispensed with. The axle is made to work in a hole P
Fig 6 in the centre of a square piece of metal or hard wood fitted into grooves in
the sides I Fig 6 of the Travelling frame, over and above this square pieco of metal
or wood is placed a metal frame or case R Fig 6 the shape of the letter U inverted
thus, one end of this metal frame or case is fixed to the Travelling frame so that
it can revolve and by this means the Roller M can be instantly removed as before
described. The Springs O2 Fig. 6. are fitted in this metal frame or case R. Fig 6
and kept in their place by means of a T shaped bolt S. S. Fig 6 the head of
which bolt bears on the square piece of metal or wood in which the axle revolves.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declaro that what
I claim is
1. The peculiar shape of the said Roller namely that it is made in a form
gradually diminishing in size from each end to the centre and not made of the same
size from end to end.
2. The manner in which the said Roller is fastened or fitted in the Travelling
frame so that it may be instantly removed therefrom.
3. The manner of applying the Springs eithor above or below the Spindle or
Axle of the said Roller so as to facilitate the removal of the said Roller from the
Travelling frame.
4. The manner of making and fixing the said Table or Tray by which it can be
brought from the horizontal position to the slope and brought back again to its
horizontal position.
Dated this Twentieth day of December 1884.
A. PHILIP WILLIAMS,
Agent for Robert Thomas Williams.