An Improved Butter-worker.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 7th June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 4th Mar., 1893-Accepted, 29th Apr.. 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Butter-worker.
GEORGE WILSON Jr. Farmer North Sunderland Chathill R.S.O. Northumber-
land do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention is an improved form of butter-worker for pressing the moisture
from butter after removal from the churn & consists of a wooden table semicircular
in front and surrounded by a ledge.
Near the centre of the back a lever is attached "working in a universal joint'
which carries a wooden block grooved on its under surface, with which the butter
is pressed or, the table may be rectangular, in which case the fulcrum of the lever is
made to slide along the back of the table.
In either case the table is made to slope towards the front to facilitate the escape
of the moisture through a hole in front for that purpose.
Dated this 6th day of June 1892.
GEORGE WILSON, JR.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Butter-worker.
I, GEORGE WILSON Jr., Farmer North Sunderland Chathill Northumberland
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 :-
My invention relates to an improved apparatus for, and method of pressing the
moisture from butter after removal from the churn, and consists of a semicircular
table surrounded by a ledge across which is mounted a lever working in a universal
joint, the lever is attached to a wooden block grooved on its under surface with
which the butter is pressed.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood, I append the following
full description and Specification of one of the sizes in which my improved butter-
worker may be made.
The wooden table is cut from a piece of kauré pine "or other suitable wood"
40 inches long by 22 inches wide and 1 inch thick the semicircular front being
drawn with a radius of 20 inches from a point 2 in. from one side of the wood, it is
surrounded by a ledge, the back piece being 3 in. wide and of an inch thick, the
piece to go round the front being 3 in. wide and of an in. thick and rounded on
the upper edge, these pieces are screwed to the edge of the table flush with the
under side thereby forming a semicircular trough 2 in. deep, the heads of the
screws are covered by a bead of sufficient width for the purpose, short legs 3 in.
long are attached to the two back corners, and in the centre of the front a inch
hole is bored and fitted with a wooden plug.
The grooved block is made from a piece of wood 16 in. long 2 in. thick, 5 iu.
wide at one end and 4 in. wide at the other, and is grooved on one surface the
length way to the depth of one inch the grooves being a little deeper at the wide
end of the block with a gradual taper to the smaller end, or, the grooves may run
across the block or obliquely.
To the centre of the back piece of the table on the outside, is fixed a galvanized
iron bracket, which rises and curves forward sufficiently above and over the table
to carry a universal joint, the centre of which is 34 inches above the table and 2 in.
from the inside of the back piece.

page_text: The lever is made from a piece of suitable wood 28 in. long by 1 in. square,
rounded at one end to form a handle, to the other end is fixed a galvanized iron
plate terminating in a rounded end which passes through the universal joint and is
kept in place by a nut or pin, and forming the fulcrum of the lever or, the lever
may be made entirely of galvanized iron, the grooved block is fixed lengthwise to
the lever in such position that the wide end of the block comes to within of an
inch of the front of the table and the grooved surface to within of an inch of the
top of the table or bottom of the trough, the lever and block can then by means of
the universal joint be raised and worked over any part of the table, while the
rounded end at the fulcrum allows the block to be turned up for the purpose of
drying during use.
The method of using the butter-worker is as follows, the worker being laid upon
a table or suitable shelf, the front projecting over sufficiently to allow the water to
run out at the hole provided for the purpose, the butter is laid upon the worker,
then taking the lover by the rounded handle which projects over the front of the
worker, the block is brought over the butter and pressed firmly down, the operation
being repeated until all the butter has been pressed, then with a lateral motion and
beginning at one side of the butter using the edge of the block the butter is gathered
up into a roll, it is again put in the centre of the worker and pressed as before, the
operation being repeated until the butter is sufficiently dry, the water which is
pressed out escaping at the hole in front which is facilitated by the short legs at
the back giving the worker a slope to the front or, the worker may be rectangular
in which case the fulcrum of the lever is made to slide along the back of the
worker.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
In an improved butter-worker the construction and use of the lever "and grooved
block" working in a universal joint substantially as, and for the purpose herein
described.
Doend this 2d day of March 1892
Dated this 2d
March 1892
GEORGE WILSON, JR.,
North Sunderland, Chathill, Northumberland.