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Patented April 4, 1905.
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.
CHARLES E. RAGAN, OF GROTTO, TEXAS.
MECHANICAL MOVEMENT.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 786,677, dated April 4, 1905.
Application filed August 15,1904. Serial No. 220,805.To all whom, tn imay comcern4
Be it known that I, CHARLES E. RAGAN, a
citizen of the United States, residing at Grotto,
in the county of Hopkins and State of Texas,
5 have invented certain new and useful Im-
provements in Mechanical Movements, of
which the following is a specification.
My present invention relates to improve-
ments in mechanical movements adapted to
.o be used for operating churns, washing-ma-
chines, freezers, and the like.
The main object of my invention is the pro-
vision of a mechanism which is easily oper-
ated to impart to the dasher of a churn, freezer,
r5 or wasning-machine either a continuous re-
volving motion or an oscillating motion.
To attain these objects, the invention con-
sists of a device of this character embodying
novel features of construction and combina-
2o tion of parts, substantially as disclosed herein.
In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is
a front elevation of my complete mechanism
with a churn-body in operative position there-
with. Fig. 2isa side elevation thereof. Figs..
2:5 3 and 4 are detail views of the segment and
stops for limiting the movement of the seg-
ment. Fig. 5 is a sectional view of shafts and
gears whereby a continuously-revolving mo-
tion is imparted to the dasher. Fig. 6 is a per-
30 spective view of a gear and lever used for op-
erating shaft 9.
Referring to the drawings, A designates the
churn body or receptacle, provided with a
dasher B. The churn is mounted movably
35 upon the base 1, having the standards 2 iris-
ing u upward therefrom centrally and to one
side. Supported by the upper ends thereof
are the parallel arms 3 and 4, which provide
a space in the upper end of the standards and
40 a space between the ends of the arms. Revolv-
ingly mounted in alined openings in the outer
ends of the arms is a vertical shaft 5, whose
lower end 6 projects below the arin 4 and is
connected to the dashed B. Keyed upon this
45 shaft between the arms is a beveled pinion or
gear 7, which meshes with and receives mo-
tion from the beveled gear or pinion 8, keyed
upon the outer end of the horizontal shaft 9,
journaled in the upper end of the standards
5o between the arms and projecting beyond theouter face of said standard or standards, as
at 10. Keyed upon the end of the shaft is a
pinion 11, provided with a periphery having
teeth 12 and the smooth portion 13, the pur-
pose of which is to protect the teeth by pre- 55
venting anything from being caught and also
to provide an additional guide for the seg-
ment 14, provided with the teeth 15. This
segment is connected to the recessed end 16
of the lever or handle 17, which is fulcrumed, 6o
by means of a bolt 18, to the arm 19, which
is supported by the standards at right angles
to the arms 3 and 4. In order to limit the
segment in its movement and to 'prevent it
from disengaging the teeth of the pinion 11, 65
I provide the stop or lug 20, secured to and
projecting from the outer face of the arm 19,
and the two stops or lugs 21, secured to and
projecting from the inner side of the segment,
said lugs being far enough apart to allow the 70
prope" r m uniLation of the handle or lever.
By this construction set forth an oscillating
motion is imparted to the dasher, and in order
to impart a continuous revolving motion to
the dasher I employ the mechanism as shown 75
in Fig. 5, which consists of the vertical shaft
22, mounted in the outer end of the arms and
assuming the same relative position as the
shaft 5. Upon this shaft I mount two bev-
eled pinions 23 and 24, which are constantly 80
in engagement with the pinion 8 above and
below and are in engagement with the verti-
cal shaft d2 through the medium of the
ratchet-and-teeth connection 25, said ratchet-
and-teeth connection being so mounted that 35
I one gear revolves the shaft, while the other re-
volves upon the shaft, and vice versa, thus
imparting a continous revolving motion to the
shaft 22 as the handle or lever is reciprocated.
In place of segment 14 1 also use gear 26, 90
double cleat 27, and handle 28, by means of
which a rotary movement or an oscillating
movement can be imparted to the shaft 9.
In order to properly journal the shaft 9, I
provide the same with the enlarged portion 9" 95
and the reduced portion 91), the shoulder 9C
preventing the inward movement of the same,
while the washer or ring 9d prevents the out-
ward movement thereof.
From the foregoing description, taken in 100No. 786,677.
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Ragan, Charles E. Mechanical Movement, patent, April 4, 1905; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth512857/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.