ANIMPROVED "WHISK" OR MIXING MACHINE
Year: 1884

page_text: I, ROBERT MORTON, of Belhaven Terrace, Wishaw, in the. County of Lanark,
Tinsmith, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for AN "IMPROVED
"WHISK" OR MIXING MACHINE to be as follows:-:
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This Invention relates to improvements in machines used for agitating and
beating or mixing liquid or semi-liquid substances, which will render such machines
more simple, portable, and efficient than heretofore.
The Invention essentially consists in mounting the revolving and agitating blades
on a shaft, all portably in a frame removable from the mixing vessel, without the
use of axis, centres, or pinching screws in the vessel for carrying the shaft, as
heretofore used.
According to one modification of my Invention, applicable where three sets of
beaters are employed in the agitating machine, two of the sets are fixed by eyes
or collars to the shaft at its ends, and revolve with it in the said portable frame,
while the axes of the other set of beaters are mounted between the other two sets
and remain stationary, the shaft of the revolving beaters being free to move within
the eyes or collars of the central or stationary set. The one end of the shaft is
fitted to revolve loosely in a journal eye in one arm of the portable frame, where it
is driven by suitable gearing attached to the vessel, and at the other end in the
eye of a stationary axis secured in the opposite arm of the portable frame to which
is fixed the stationary beaters. The stationary or central set of beaters has one of
its eyes or.collars fixed to the stationary axis, while the other eye or collar of this
set of 'beaters is mounted loose on the shaft of the revolving beaters. The central
set of beaters is thus held stationary by its stationary axis on which one eye or
collar of the revolving beaters is mounted to revolve loose at that side of the
machine, thereby allowing the revolving axis and beaters to revolve freely within
the arms of the portable frame carrying the whole. And when desired outer
stationary beaters might be secured to the lower arms of the frame, which might
be strengthened and supported by a cross bar. at the outer ends of the arms, so as
to be portable and raised and lowered out of carrying slides or notches in the sides
of the vessel, and when inserted would be in a line with the axis of the outer
driving shaft on the vessel which would be square and inserted into a corresponding
recess in the shaft of the revolving beaters, and be retained there and actuated by
the ordinary driving gear outside the vessel heretofore used for such switches and
beaters.

page_text: I, ROBERT MORTON, of Belhaven Terrace, Wishaw, in the county of Lanark
Tinsmith, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for "AN IMPROVED
WHISK OR MIXING MACHINE," and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in machines used for agitating and
beating, or mixing liquid or semi-liquid substances.
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The invention essentially consists in mounting the revolving and agitating blades
of the apparatus on a shaft carried in a frame (which is removable from the mixing
vessel) without the use of axes, centres, or pinching screws in the vessel for carrying
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According to one modification of my invention applicable where three sets of
beaters are employed in the agitating machine, and which is illustrated in
longitudinal and transverse section in figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying
drawings, two of the sets of beaters A A¹ are fixed by eyes or collars a, a, to the
shaft B at its end, and revolve with it in the portable. frame C, which is fitted
within the whisking vessel D. The other set of beaters A² are mounted between
the two,sets A A¹, and are fixed on a stationary shaft B¹ secured at one end to the
arm c of the frame C. The shaft B of the revolving beaters, passes over the
stationary shaft and is free to move within an eye, or collar a² formed in the
central or stationary set 'at one end! This end of the shaft B is fitted to revolve
loosely in a journal eye c² in the arm c¹ of the portable frame C, where it is driven
by a square end formed on a short spindle E operated by gearing F fitted in a
bracket piece G attached to the vessel, the square end being fitted into a recess in
the end of the revolving shaft B: The stationary or central set of beaters has one
of its eyes or collars fixed to the stationary axis B', while the other eye or collar a²
of this set of beaters is mounted loose on the shaft B of the revolving beaters. The
central set of beaters is thus held stationary by its stationary axis B¹ on which one
eye or collar of the revolving beaters is mounted to revolve loose at that side of
the machine, thereby allowing the revolving axis B and beaters to, revolve freely
within the arms c c¹ of the portable frame carrying the whole. This frame C is
adapted to be lifted out of the vessel D and dropped into place in it. In order that
the lower end of the frame C and the recessed end of the shaft B, may pass över
the inwardly projecting square end of the spindle E, pieces are cut out of the frame
and out of the shaft. A collar is soldered on the shaft B₁ to retain the eye
independently of the retaining power of the frame, and the shaft is also soldered
or otherwise fixed to the arm of the frame C. When desired outer stationary
beaters might be secured to the lower arms of the frame, which might be
strengthened and supported by a cross bar at the outer ends of the arms, so as to
be portable and raised and lowered out of carrying slides or notches in the sides of
the vessel, and when inserted would be in a line with the axis of the outer driving
shaft on the vessel which would be square and inserted into a corresponding recess
in the shaft of the revolving beaters, and be retained there and actuated by the
ordinary driving gear outside the vessel heretofore used for such. switches and
beaters. The mixing vessel D is formed with a double casing at the bottom in
which hot water may be placed to heat the material being mixed or switched.
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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,―-
The arrangement of a series of beaters or mixers in combination with a portable
frame adapted to fit a mixing vessel, the driving gear being attached to the vessel
and the beaters and frame being detachable therefrom substantially as herein
described and illustrated.
Dated thin Townutowawanth ^ of № 1001