Improvements in or in connection with Curd Mills.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 24th May, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or in connection with Curd Mills.
JAMES BAZELEY.PETTER of The Nautilus Works, Yeovil in the County of
Somerset, Ironmonger.
This invention relates to mills for breaking or tearing or.dividing curds (commonly
known as mills for grinding curds) such as are used in the process of making cheese
and my present improvements consist more particularly in a novel arrangement and
construction of grating or slotted plate through which the revolving cutters
or beating arms pass as they are revolved in the ordinary manner.
And in order that my present invention may be easily understood and readily
carried into practice I will proceed to fully describe same with reference to the
drawings hereunto annexed.
Fig. 1 shows a cross sectional elevation of a curd mill having my present
improvements applied thereto.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the improved grating removed from the mill.
Fig. 3 is a view-on a greatly enlarged scale-of a curd mill having the top
hinged part laid open and showing in plan my improved grating applied to
such mill.
A is the top part of the casing hinged at B to the bottom part of the casing C.
D is the ordinary spindle carrying the ordinary or any suitable cutters or beating
arms E arranged spirally or otherwise around said spindle D-the latter being
revolved by a crank D' or in any other suitable manner.
A¹ are links or catches by which the top hinged part A of the casing is secured
to lugs or projections C¹ on the bottom part C.
F is the grating or slotted plate, formed of a curved bent or approximately
open V-shaped or rather more than a right angle for instance as shown in cross
section in Fig. 1.
Each opening or slot in this grating F is according to my present invention of
two different widths that is to say looking at the grating as shown in Fig. 1 all the
openings along the upwardly projecting side are of equal width to one another but
wider than the openings along the horizontal part which latter are of course all of
the same narrow width of opening-or vice versa.
This grating and the casing to receive same are so formed that the said grating
can be entirely removed from the casing and is reversible so that either the fine or
coarse openings may be brought into use i.e. brought into the horizontal position and
thus the curds will be cut fine or coarse as desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In curd mills a removable and reversible grating having each of the slots or
openings therein of two sizes so that either one size or the other can be brought
into use and the curds cut fine or coarse as desired substantially in the manner
hereinbefore described.
2. In curd mills a removable and reversible grating such as F of the shape
and having the openings or slots therein of two sizes arranged to act substantially in
the manner and for the purposes herein before described.
3. A removable and reversible grating for curd mills of an approximately L-shape
in cross section and having different size of openings or slots along one side thereof
[Price 8d.]

page_text: to those along the other side thereof so that the grating can be reversed in
the mill and cut the curd fine or coarse as desired substantially as herein before
described.
4. The improved arrangement and construction of grating for curd mills
substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein before described and illustrated
in the drawings hereunto annexed.
Dated this 8th day of March 1895.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.