A BALANCE LEVER AND STOPPER FOR CHURNS AND THE LIKE
Year: 1886

page_text: I, JAMES ARTHUR FOOTTIT of Sudbury near Derby, Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of my invention for A BALANCE LEVER AND STOPPER FOR CHURNS
AND THE LIKE to be as follows:
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My Invention consists of a device to serve as a novel and useful adaptation to
rotating butter churns-generally known as barrel" churns-and the like. The
purpose of utility served by said device is that of imparting an evenly balanced
uniform motion to butter churns and other rotary utensils or contrivances in which
the principle of action and the conditions involved are the same as apply in the
case of the churns aforesaid.
Said device or contrivance for the purpose aforesaid consists of a lever or arm
provided at one end with a boss having a hole bored therein for the purpose of
slipping on to the churn spindle and secured to the latter by a clamping or set
screw, or equivalent device."
The lever or arm aforesaid has at its other end a weight with the object of
equilibrating the weight of the handle of the churn and that of the butter contained
therein, in such manner as to ensure that when the dead weight of the butter is
ascending in the course of the rotation of the churn, the balanced lever or arm
aforesaid, will be descending; thus in a great measure overcoming the inertia of
the dead weight of the butter by the weight on the end of the lever or arm afore-
said, and at the same time allowing of the working of the churn with much greater
facility than with "barrel churns' as heretofore usually constructed.
The lever or arm aforesaid has also adapted thereto a device by which the fixing
of the churn in any desired position to allow of the removal of the contents thereof,
is effected with greater facility than bas heretofore been accomplished.
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The contrivance for the purpose last mentioned comprises a curved arm piece or
sector of a radius corresponding with the length of the lever aforesaid and having
a series of holes therein. Said curved arm piece or sector is provided with a stop
pin which is passed through any one of the holes before mentioned (with the object
above referred to) and into a corresponding hole in the weight aforesaid.
Dated this South does
1000

page_text: I JAMES ARTHUR FOOTTIT of Sudbury near Derby, Engineer, do hereby declare
the nature of my invention for A BALANCE LEVER AND STOPPER FOR CHURNS
AND THE LIKE, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
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My Invention consists of a device to serve as a novel and useful adaptation to
rotating butter churns-generally known as barrel churns-and the like. The
purpose of utility served by said device is that of imparting an evenly balanced
uniform motion to butter churns and other rotary utensils or contrivances in which
the principle of action and the conditions involved are the same as apply in the case
of the churns aforesaid..
Said device or contrivance for the purpose aforesaid consists of a lever or arm A
provided at one end with a boss having a hole bored therein for the purpose of
slipping on to the churn spindle & and secured to the latter by a clamping or set
screw or equivalent device as shewn at a in the accompanying drawing. The lever
or arm A is weighted at its outer end 6 with the object of equilibrating the weight
of the handle c of the churn B, and that of the butter contained therein, in such
manner, as to ensure that when the dead weight of the butter is ascending in the
course of the rotation of the churn, the balanced lever or weighted arm A. aforesaid,
will be descending and thus in a great measure will overcome the inertia of the
dead weight of the butter, and at the same time allow of the working of the churn
with much greater facility than is attainable in the cases of barrel churns as
heretofore usually constructed.
In addition to, and to be used in connection with the lever or arm A aforesaid,
I also employ a device or contrivance by which the fixing of the churn in any
desired position to allow of the removal of the contents thereof, is effected with
greater facility than has heretofore been accomplished. Said contrivance for the
purpose last mentioned comprises a sector piece C of a radius corresponding with
the length of the lever aforesaid and having a series of holes e and recesses e¹ formed
therein, as shewn in the accompanying drawing. A stop pin D, is provided as
shewn, which may be passed through any one of the holes e formed in the sector
piece C and into a corresponding hole in the enlarged weighted end 6 of the lever
arm A for the purpose of fixing the churn or like utensil in any desired position, as
and for the purpose stated above.

page_text: Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
First :-The device or contrivance substantially as herein described and shewn
in the accompanying drawing for imparting an evenly balanced uniform motion to
butter churns and the like.
Secondly-In connection with the device referred to in my first claim above,
the means I employ in conjunction therewith by which the fixing of the churn or
like rotatory utensil in any desired position is accomplished substantially as and for
the purpose herein set forth.