A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR WHIPPING, BEATING, OR CHURNING LIQUID OR SEMI-LIQUID SUBSTANCES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Morton, of Wishaw, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
WHIPPING, BEATING, OR CHURNING LIQUID OR SEMI-LIQUID SUBSTANCES."
Scaled the 16th September 1876, and dated the 25th March 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Morton at the Office
of the Cominissioners of Patents on the 25th March 1876.
"
ROBERT MORTON, of Wishaw, in the County of Lanark, North Britain. A NEW
OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR WIIIPPING, BEATING, OR CHURNING LIQUID OR SEMI-
LIQUID SUBSTANCES."
This Invention, which relates to a new or improved apparatus for whipping,
beating, or churning liquid or semi-liquid substances, has for its object to more
speedily and effectually perform the said operation than obtains with apparatus of
the kind now in use.
The apparatus consists of a case or vessel, preferably cylindrical, having two or
more beaters placed within one another, and which under onearrangement are caused
to revolve in different directions by means of spur gearing, or the equivalent
thereof.
In order that the fluid or semi-fluid to be whipped, beaten, or churned may be
kept at any desired temperature the case or vessel is constructed with two bottonis,
so that a space is enclosed between them, and into the space so formed water, steam,
or other medium capable of raising or lowering the temperature within the appa-
ratus is conducted through a pipe or opening at the side.
Under another arrangement in lieu of causing the beaters to revolve in opposite
directions, as herein-before described, one or more only, either the inner or the
outer, may be rotated, whilst the other or others remain stationary.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Robert Morton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd September
1876.
ROBERT MORTON, of Wishaw, in the County of Lanark, North Britain.
<< A NEW
OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR WHIPPING, BEATING, OR CHURNING LIQUID OR SEMI-
LIQUID SUBSTANCES."
My said Invention, which relates to a new or improved apparatus for whipping,
beating, churning, or agitating liquid or semi-liquid substances, has for its object
to more speedily and effectually perform these operations than obtains with appa-
ratus hitlierto employed for such purposes.
And in order that my said Invention may be properly understood I now proceed
more particularly to set forth the system, mode, or manner in or under which the
same is or may be used or practically carried into effect; reference being had to the
annexed Sheet of Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is
to say :-
On the Sheet of Drawings hereunto appended Figure 1 is a vertical section of
the apparatus constructed in accordance with my said Invention; Figure 2 is a plan
thereof; and Figure 3, a vertical section at right angles to Figure 1, and drawn
upon the line a, b, Figure 2.
As shewn by these Figures the apparatus consists of a cylindrical case or vessel A,
provided at its interior with two beaters B, C, placed one within the other, and
composed of curved or bent wires fixed at their ouds in collars or discs. The collars
or discs x carrying the inner beater C are formed or fixed on a shaft D, the outer
beater B being also carried loosely on portions of the said shaft projecting beyond
the collars or discs a, as seen at Figure 1.
The inner beater C is stationary, being held in position by a square or other
suitably shaped portion y formed at one end of the shaft D, but the outer beater B
is capable of rotating, such motion being imparted to it by means of a handle E,
spur wheel F, and pinion G, a square or other suitably shaped portion w on one
end of the shaft or axis H of the said pinion being entered into a similarly formed
recess in one of the collars or discs of the outer beater, as shown. The beaters B
and C are held in their position in the casing A by a pinching screw I at one end
of the shaft D, and by a gland J screwed against a collar formed on the shaft H, or
they may be so held by other equivalent means.
In order that the fluid or semi-fluid being whipped, beaten, churned, or agitated
by the rotation of the beator B may be kept at any desired temperature the case or
vessel A is constructed with two bottoms K and L, which enclose a space whereinto
water, steam, or other medium capable of raising or lowering the temperature
within the apparatus is admitted through the branch M, and withdrawn when
desired by the cock or tap N. Instead of the bottom only the entire vessel A may
if desired be made with a double casing for the like purpose. Holes or openings R
are made at the lower end of the casing or vessel beneath the bottom L, as
indicated at Figures and 3, through which the straight part of a clamp O, illus-
trated in detail at Figure 4, passes. The clamp, which is bent at one end so as to
pass round and under the edge of any table or stand on which whilst in operation
the apparatus is situated, is provided with a pinching screw P to fix or hold the
said apparatus in position, or any other equivalent means of holding the apparatus
may be employed instead of this arrangement.
In lieu of causing the outer beater B to revolve alone, as herein-before set forth,
both beaters B and C may be made to rotate in opposite directions in whipping,
churning, beating, or agitating with the apparatus, or the outer beater may be
stationary whilst the inner one rotates; and further, instead of employing two
beaters only, as shewn on the Drawings, a greater number of such beaters placed
one within the other, and by a modification of the apparatus herein-before described
caused to rotate alternately in opposite directions, or with some of them stationary
whilst the rest rotate, may be used.

page_text: The casing or vessel A in lieu of being circular may be made rectangular, or of
other form in plan when desired.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the system, mode, or manner in or under which the same is or may be
used or practically carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I
consider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to
me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the new or improved
apparatus illustrated on the appended Sheet of Drawings, or any merc modification
thereof, wherein two or more beaters constructed and operated under any of the
arrangements herein-before described are employed to whip, beat, churn, or agitate
liquid or semi-liquid substances, substantially as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Morton, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twentieth day of September One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-six.
ROBERT MORTON. (L.S.)