Improvements in Beaters for Eggs and other Matters.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 10th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 15th Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Beaters for Eggs and other Matters.
I HERBERT BENSON of Alice Street, Sale, in the County of Chester, Clerk, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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My invention relates to the so called egg beaters or more broadly stated to
apparatus used in the beating of eggs the creaming of butter and for other similar
purposes. The object of my invention is to produce an apparatus of simple con-
struction adapted to be secured to a table and which whilst being efficient for the
purpose will be less liable to derangement than ordinary mechanical beaters.
metal frame is adapted to be clamped upon a table by means of a screw and is
formed with bearings for a vertical spindle which is carried so that the beater at the
lower end of the spindle can revolve near to the bottom of an ordinary basin or jar
or a suitable receptacle standing upon the table. I might make the standard of the
framing capable of alteration in length so that the closeness of the beater to the
bottom of the basin could be regulated as for example the frame might be cast in
two parts the parts being connected together by means of a bolt passing through a
hole in one part and a slot in the other part.
A spur wheel revolving upon a fixed stud and provided with a handle gears with
a small pinion upon the upper end of the spindle. The beater may be varied in
form.
A beater which 1 have devised for the purpose has straight or curving arms
projecting horizontally from the spindle or from a continuation fixed upon the same.
These arins may be made of wire fixed in holes drilled in or through the spindle.
I prefer to shape the arms so that the outer ends curve forward in the direction of
revolution in order that there may be less tendency for the matters being beaten
to be thrown outward. The arms might be cast or stamped and be threaded upon the
spindle.
Dated this 13th day of November 1893.
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Beaters for Eggs and other Matters.
I HERBERT BENSON of Alice Street, Sale, in the County of Chester, Clerk, 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 and accompanying drawings:-
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My invention relates to the so called egg beaters, or more broadly stated, to
apparatas used in the beating of eggs, the creaming of butter and for other similar
purposes.
The object of my invention is to produce an apparatus of simple construction
adapted to be secured to a table and which whilst being efficient for the purpose
will be less liable to derangement than ordinary mechanical beaters, and will also
effect an economy of labour.
A metal frame is adapted to be clamped upon a table by means of a screw and is
formed with bearings for a vertical spindle which is carried so that the beater at the

page_text: lower end of the spindle can revolve on the bottom of an ordinary basin or jar or a
suitable receptacle standing upon the table. I might make the standard of the
framing capable of alteration in length so that the closeness of the beater to the
bottom of the basin could be regulated, as for example the frame inight be cast in
two parts the parts being connected together by means of a bolt passing through
a hole in one part and a slot in the other part.
A spur wheel revolving upon a fixed stud and provided with a handle gears with
a small pinion upon the upper end of the spindle. The beater may be varied in
form.
To render my invention clearly understood I will now describe the same more
fully with reference to the annexed sheet of drawings.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation and Fig. 2 a plan of a convenient form of my improved
beating or whisking apparatus.
Fig. 3 illustrates a modification in the beater or whisk.
Referring to Figs. 1 and 2 the parts of the apparatus are carried on a cramp
frame a formed at the foot with a jaw and thumb-screw b by which the frame a is
clamped to the table c. The upper arm a¹ of the frame carries a spur wheel d
centered on a stud e and rotated by a handle f. The spur wheel d gears with a
pinion g which runs loosely in the bearing a³ and is kept in position by a ring
collar d'.
The squared end of a vertical spindle slides through a square hole in the
pinion g and the spindle is prevented from dropping out of the pinion by a pin i
which projects from the spindle and rests across the top of the bearing as through
which the cylindrical part of the spindle passes.
The foot of the spindle is furnished with beating arms j' which may be of any
suitable shape and arrangement. The basin containing the eggs or other matter
to be beaten up or whisked, is marked k. This basin stands on the table c and the
spindle drops down till its foot bears on the bottom of the basin as shown. By
turning the spur wheel d the beater is driven at a high velocity and the eggs or
other materials in the basin are beaten up or whisked.
By making the spindle h to slide as described, the whisk can adjust itself to
different levels. I might however obtain the same effect, though not so readily by
making the vertical limb of the frame a in two parts one sliding on the other and
securing them together adjustably by a bolt or bolts projecting from one part and
passing through a slot or slots in the other part.
The arms of the whisk may be of any suitable shape, and I do not confine myself
to the form of whisk shown.
For example I might use a double ring whisk carried on two spindles as shown at
Fig. 3, the two spindles h, h being set so as to let the ring whisks clear each
other.
I might also adopt a form of double whisk now well known in the market, and
driven by an inner spindle and outer sleeve, each carrying a whisk and revolving in
different directions.
The variations in the formation of whisk or beater are not a part of my
invention.
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 1
claim is.
1. The general arrangement, construction and operation of mechanism consti-
tuting the improved appliance for beating or whisking eggs and other matters
substantially as described and as illustrated.
2. The improved means for beating or whisking eggs and other matters, and
consisting of a cramp frame capable of being readily secured to a table or bench,
and carrying a spindle and beater or spindles and beaters, with gearing for driving
the beater, all substantially as described and as illustrated.

page_text: 3. In an egg beater of the indicated construction, the beater spindle or spindles
adapted to slide vertically, for the purposes and substantially as described and
shown.
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Ad 1901
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.