IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR WORKING BUTTER
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Mander Allender, Managing Director of the
Aylesbury Dairy Company, Limited, of 31, St. Petersburg Place, Bayswater,
in the County of Middlesex, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINES FOR WORKING BUTTER."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Mander Allender
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd May 1880.
GEORGE MANDER ALLENDER, Managing Director of the Aylesbury Dairy
Company, Limited, of 31, St. Petersburg Place, Bayswater, in the County of
Middlesex. IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINES FOR WORKING BUTTER."
"
My Invention relates to certain improvements in machines for working butter,
whereby any excess of moisture or of salt may be expressed or extracted there-
from, or salt or any preservative matter be intimately mixed or incorporated
therewith, without passing the butter between rolls with plane surfaces revolving
in close contact, the compression between which injuriously affects the grain of the
butter, which it also renders oily; my improvements also permitting the progress
of the operation to be carefully watched, and if necessary assisted by the workman
without arresting the machine; finally the construction of these machines is greatly
simplified and cheapened.
The accompanying Sheet of Drawing represents a machine embodying my
improvements,
Figure 1 being a side elevation, and
Figure 2 a front view thereof.
A, A, indicate the side frames; B, platform or top; C, hopper; D, D, grooved
or fluted rolls for dividing or separating the butter, so that it is delivered to the
shoot in suitable pieces; E, shoot; F, mixing or malaxing or kneading tub or
vessel; G, receiving tub or vessel; H, fly wheel; I, I, driving pulleys; K, pinion
gear with wheel L; M, M, pinions of rolls D, D; N, pinion in gear with wheels
O, P, Q; R, bevel pinion; S, bevel wheel for driving beaters or revolving arms
within the tub F; T, handle for lifting trap U to permit the treated butter to pass
into the receiving tub or vessel G.
in

page_text: The machine being set in motion by driving belt or pulley I by any available
motive power the butter to be treated is introduced into the hopper C, from whence
it passes to the dividing or separating rolls D, D, which deliver it on the shoot E,
by which it is directed into the tub F, where it is kept in motion by revolving
arms or beaters until sufficiently worked, when the workman opens the trap U and
permits it to pass into the receiver G.
If the object is to free the butter from an excess of salt a stream of water is
directed through the hopper over the shoot and into the kneading tub, from which
it escapes by perforations made for that purpose.
Should the butter adhere to the revolving or fixed arms or to the sides of the
tub F the position of this tub in front of the machine permits the butter being
easily removed therefrom while the machine is working.

page_text: S, bevel wheel for driving beaters or revolving arms within the the tub F.
T, handle for lifting trap U to permit the treated butter to pass into the receiving
tub or vesse! G.
V, V, are the beaters or revolving arms; W, fixed arms; x, x, perforations.
The machine being set in motion by driving belt on pulley I by any available
motive power the butter to be treated is introduced into the hopper C, from
whence it passes to the dividing or separating rolls D, D, which deliver it on to
the shoot E, by which it is directed into the tub F, where it is kept in motion
by revolving arms or beaters until sufficiently worked, when the workman opens
the trap U and permits it to pass into the receiver G.
If the object is to free the butter from an excess of salt a stream of water is
directed through the hopper over the shoot and into the kneading tub, from which
it escapes through the trap slightly opened for that purpose.
Should the butter adhere to the revolving or fixed arms or to the sides of the
tub F the position of this tub in front of the machine permits the butter being
easily removed therefrom while the machine is working.
For treating certain kinds of butter I may dispense with the dividing rolls D, D,
the butter passing directly into the tub F, to be there operated upon as above set
forth,

page_text: Having now described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is or may be performed,
I claim as secured to me by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent,--
Firstly. The combination of the rolls D, D, shoot E, and tub F, whereby the
butter is delivered from the rolls D, D, to the tub E without passing between rolls
with plane surfaces, substantially as specified.
Secondly. The position of the tub or vessel F in projection from the machine, so
that the workman may watch the progress of the treatment of the butter therein,
substantially as herein before described.
Thirdly. The general construction and arrangement of the machine to operate
substantially as and for the purposes herein before described, and with or without
the rolls D, D.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Mander Allender, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty.
Witness,
W. E. GEDGE,.
11, Wellington St.,
W.C.
G. MANDER ALLENDER. (L.S.)