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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JAMES R. HOLDER, OF CLAYTON, TEXAS.
CHURN.
No. 922,699. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented May 25, 1909.
Application filed November 11, 1908. Serial No. 462,087.
To all whom it may concern: provided with suitably located cross braces,
Be it known that I, JAMEs R. HOLDER, the power mechanism being mounted in said
citizen of the United States, residing at Clay- frame. A driving shaft 3 is journaled in the
ton, in the county of Panola and State of upper portion of the frame at one end as 6o
5 Texas, have invented certain new and useful shown at 4 and operated by power from any
Improvements in Churns, of which the fol- convenient source as by a belt, (not shown),
lowing is a specification. connected with a pulley 5 carried by the shaft
The object of my invention is to provide or by hand power applied to the handle 6.
a simple and efficient power mechanism for The numeral 7 designates a power wheel 05
10 churns and is more particularly adapted for carried by the shaft 3 and constitutes that
use in connection with that type of churn portion of the churning mechanism from
wherein a vertically reciprocating dasher is which power is transmitted to the crank
employed. shaft 8, said crank being journaled in the
The invention comprises essentially a upper portion of the frame as shown at 9 70
15 frame provided with suitably arranged sec- and connected to said power wheel by means
tions in which a power wheel is mounted, of a pulley 10 carried by said shaft and a belt
and pulleys also mounted in the frame 11 passing over said pulley and power wheel.
driven by belts and connected to the power The oppositely arranged vertical guides 12
wheel for imparting reciprocating movement are secured to the frame 1 in alinement with 75
20 to a slide head operating in guides carried the crank shaft 8 and connected at both ends
by the frame and to which a dasher is con- by horizontal frame members 13 in which
nected, the pulley also imparting rotary oppositely arranged vertical guide rods 14
motion to a fan suitably located and mounted are secured. These guide rods are in the
in the frame and adapted to temper the form of straight bars circular or non-circular so
25 contents of the churn and promote the in cross section, arranged in parallel relation
churning efficiency of the power mechanism. respectively and are designed to form guid-
The frame is constructed and arranged ing means for the reciprocating cross head 15.
to permit the removal of any of the several Said rods extend through openings in the
sections comprising the power mechanism, upper and lower sections of the cross head 85
30 also to permit the churn receptacle to be and by reason of such an arrangement said
readily introduced or withdrawn at an cross head. in its reciprocating movement
stage of the churning operation and to ascemi during the churning operation is maintained
tamo at intervals the condition of the contents in a fixed vertical plane. The reciprocating
of the receptacle without the removal or I cross head may be of any desired construe- 90
35 disconnection of the power mechanism. tion or formation and as shown preferably
For a full understanding of the invention consists of upper and lower spaced members
and the merits thereof and also to acquire a to which an operating pitman 16 is pivotally
knowledge of the details of construction and secured at the upper end as shown at 17 and
the means for effecting the result, reference connected to the crank 18 on the crank shaft 95
40 is to be had to the following description and 8 as indicated at 19.
accompanying drawings, in which: The reciprocating cross head 15 consti-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the frame tutes the carrying member for the recipro-
anl power mechanism; Fig. 2 is a vertical eating dasher rod 20, one extremityof which
sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; is secured to the lower end of said cross head 100
45 Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view on the line as shown at 21, and a dasher 22 comprising
3-3 of Fig. 1; and, Figs. 4 and 5 are en- overlapped dasher sections of cross forma-
larged detail illustrations of the dasher and tion is rigidly secured to the opposite ex-
fan wheel casing. tremity. The lower end of the dasher rod
Corresponding and like parts are referred carrying the dasher is designed to extend 105
50 to in the following description and indicated within a churn receptacle 23 and upon re-
in all the views of the drawings by the same ciprocatory movement of said rod occa-
reference characters. sioned by motion transmitted to the crossReferring to the drawings, the numeral 1 head, the contents of the receptacle is agi-
designates a frame structure comprising tated thus effecting the churning operation. 1o
.; upper and lower sections 1a and 1' respec- To increase the efficiency of dasher or agi-
tively secured to standards or uprights 2 and tator 22 and to secure the desired effect upon
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Holder, James R. Churn., patent, May 25, 1909; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508708/m1/3/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.