Improvements in Apparatus for Making Butter.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Feb., 1390-Accepted, 29th Mar., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by CARL HERMAN FREDRIK WILHELM OVE RAMEL,
FREIHERR VON LOVENSKJOLD-LOVENBORG, of Lovenborg, Veile, in the Kingdom
of Denmark.]
Improvements in Apparatus for Making Butter.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention 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 apparatus for making butter. By reason of its arrange-
ment the improved apparatus presents material advantages as compared with those
hitherto employed. It produces excellent butter and the butter-milk: obtained may
be advantageously used as food for pigs.
In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the upper part
of the apparatus, and Fig. 2 represents the apparatus without its outer receptacle.
A and B denote two square frames the corners of which are connected with each
other by diagonal arms. The central part of each frame forms the bearing for a
vertical axis D which carries a toothed spur-wheel a at its lower end and a toothed
bevel wheel b at its upper extremity. The latter wheel 6 engages with a second
bevel wheel c fixed at the end of a horizontal axis d which carries in proximity to
the side of the outer case a fly wheelf and a crank
g.
The aforesaid toothed wheel a engages with the four toothed wheels 1 which in
turn gear with the four wheels 2. These toothed wheels are secured below upon
eight axes which are supported by the diagonal arms of the two frames and carry
between these frames a number of beaters n. At the middle portion of the four
sides of the frame, and at a right angle to them, are provided four vertical
partitions E the width of each of which is about one fourth that of the side of the
frame.
The frames and the parts arranged between them are surrounded by a receptacle
made of sheet-metal and provided a short distance from its bottom with a cock
through which the butter milk is let out. This receptacle is closed above by a lid
which is so arranged that it does not interfere with the driving mechanism. All
the parts of the apparatus are preferably made of Britannia metal, but they may
consist of tinned iron or other suitable material which has no injurious effect upon
the butter.
After the milk has been introduced into the receptacle and the lid has been put on,
the crank g is turned. By this movement the toothed wheels 1 and 2 and the beaters
secured upon the axes of the same are caused to rotate in opposite directions, and
will thus forcibly strike the milk. Between the portions of the milk which are struck
in this manner by the beaters there will be a comparative calm, which is of great
importance in respect of the formation of the butter.
The four partitions E have for their object to break the current of the milk and to
cause the latter to be thrown back. There is a resemblance between the move-
ment of the milk in the receptacle and that of a sea in a storm, the water striking
in the latter case against the shore whilst there is a comparative calm between the
several waves.
With the apparatus above described the cream can be separated from the milk in
about half a minute and butter can be obtained in three minutes more.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondents I wish it understood that I claim :-
An apparatus for making butter, comprising two frames having diagonal arms and
constituting hearings for the axis D) that carries two toothed wheels a and b, and for
the axes that carry the beaters and the toothed wheels 1 and 2, which wheels are set
in motion by means of the horizontal axis d provided with the toothed wheel c and
the fly wheel, the said frames and the parts between them being enclosed in a recep-
tacle provided with a lid, substantially as hereinbefore described and represented in
the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 17th day of February 1890
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.