Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Sept., 1886.
Complete Left, 3rd June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 5th July, 1887.
[Communicated from abroad by GEORGE HENRY PAINE, of the City and County
of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, United States of America,
Manufacturer.]
I JOHN GUY WILSON of the British and Foreign Patent Office, 55, Market Street,
Manchester, Mechanical Engineer and Patent Agent do hereby declare the nature of
this invention, to be as follows:-
:-
The object is to obtain an Egg-beater which will possess in the greatest degree
strength and usefulness, and at the same time be inexpensive and obviously the best
result will be obtained from an appliance which will take up little room and which
can easily be rotated with great rapidity.
Instead of using two parallel wires, one as a support and the other as a spiral, with
a handle whereby motion is imparted to the beater as heretofore used in this invention,
these two are combined in one, and a straight wire used with the spiral about it.
The former method required that the spiral should be doubled in and made of very
heavy wire to give the necessary strength. In this invention a single wire is used
which may be bent into a handle at one end and about this wire is a spiral attached
at the upper end below the handle to a ring or circular piece around the main wire
rod and attached also at its lower end to the beater. This beater is preferably made
of a thin flat metal strip bent into a double circle, and having its two ends soldered
together through holes in the metal beater the straight rod passes and extending
beyond acts as a support for the apparatus. The lower part of the beater is held in
place by a clamp uniting the two portion which do not meet or they may be simply
held by a ring through which the straight rod passes.

page_text: The apparatus is provided with a tubular handle, preferably of wood, but which
may be of any suitable material. This handle fits about the spiral and is provided
either on its upper or lower opening with a plate having two perforations which will
admit a passage to the central wire and the encircling spiral.
Now it will be observed that when this handle is moved up or down a rapid motion
will be given to the spiral which will of necessity rotate the beater to which it is
attached. Thus an effective appliance may be obtained without a superfluity of wires
and handles which only take up room and interferes with the successful operation of
the machine.

page_text: Improvements in Egg-beaters.
I JOHN GUY WILSON of the British and Foreign Patent Office, 55 Market Street,
Manchester, Mechanical Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention, which invention has been communicated to me from abroad by George
Henry Paine of the City and County of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, United
States of America, Manufacturer, and in what manner the same is to be performed to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object is to obtain an Egg-beater which will possess in the greatest degree,
strength and usefulness, and at the same time be inexpensive, and obviously the best
result will be obtained from an appliance which will take up little room and which can
easily be rotated with great rapidity. Instead of using two parallel wires one as a
support and the other as a spiral with a handle whereby motion is imparted to the
beater as heretofore used in this invention, these two are combined in one and a
straight wire used with the spiral about it. The former method required that the
spiral should be doubled in and made of very heavy wire to give the necessary
strength. In this invention, a single wire is used which may be bent into a handle at
one end and about this wire is a spiral attached at the upper end below the handle to
a ring or circular piece around the main wire rod and attached also at its lower end
to the beater.
This beater is preferably made of a thin flat metal strip bent into a double circle
and having its two ends soldered together through holes in the metal beater the
straight rod passes and extending beyond acts as a support for the apparatus. The
lower part of the beater is held in place by a clamp uniting the two portions which
do not meet or they may be simply held by a ring through which the straight rod
passes. The apparatus is provided with a tubular handle preferably of wood but
which may be of any suitable material. This handle fits about the spiral and is
provided either on its upper or lower opening with a plate having two perforations
which will admit a passage to the central wire and the encircling spiral.
Now it will be observed that when this handle is moved up or down a rapid motion
will be given to the spiral which will of necessity rotate the beater to which it is
attached.
Thus an effective appliance may be obtained without a superfluity of wires and
handles which only take up room and interfere with the successful operation of the
machine.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1. is a side elevation of the improved Egg
beater with the handle in section and Fig. 2. is a sectional plan view of the same on
line a―b.
a. is the central supporting wire which extends through the beater scroll at the
bottom and is formed into a handle b. at the top. The beater scroll is shown as
formed of a flat strip of metal bent with two concentric rings c. and c¹ the lower

page_text: portion thereof being united by a clamping strip d. (or ring d' shewn in dotted lines)
to prevent them from spreading by centrifugal force.
The wire or stem a. extends through the rings c. and c¹ forming a journal or
bearing at e. and the said scroll is retained upon the stem by the nut f. soldered to it
below the ring c¹. To still further support the scroll, the stem may project through
the hole 9. in the clamping piece d. and form a step upon which the beater may rest
when in use. Secured to the upper part of the scroll is a helically twisted wire h.
twisted about the stem a. as a support and terminating at the top in the bearing ring
or washer i. which works against the shoulder j. on the stem a. If desired there may
be one or more of these helically twisted wires. The stem acts as a central support
for these twisted wires and prevents lateral bending and at the same time admits
their free rotation. K. is the handle for rotating the wires h. and beater scroll and is
provided with a large hole k¹ through which the twisted wires could pass freely, one
end of which is closed by a metal plate 1. secured to the wooden handle by nails and
provided with a central hole m. for the stem a. and one or more lateral holes n. for
the wires h, the holes m. and n. opening into each other if desired.
In operation the stem a. is pressed down upon the bottom of the glass or bowl
containing the material to be beaten and the handle k. is forced up and down upon
the stem and wires h. This action rapidly rotates the twisted wires and consequently
the beater scroll. The direction of rotation is reversed with the upward and down-
ward movements of the handle or nut k.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1st. The improved construction and arrangement of Egg-beater substantially as
hereinbefore described and illustrated on the accompanying drawing.
2nd. In the construction of an egg beater, the employment of a central stem
surrounded by a spiral wire or its equivalent having at its lower extremity a beater
when mounted and operated substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated
on the accompanying drawing.
Dated thin and dow of Tunn 9007