Pinwheel Air-Tube Churn: A Beater Cut From One Tin Sheet, Tubes That Feed the Wave

Emerson wanted a dasher "which unites simplicity with efficiency." Simeon F. Emerson of Canaan, Ohio, received US 7,236, dated 2 April 1850, for an atmospheric churn in a square box whose cover is in two pieces, one removable to inspect the cream. The beater is a squared sheet of tin plate "slit from each of the corners toward the center of the sheet for rather more than half the distance," every other corner turned in, on an upright spindle turned by a crank and wheel. "Inclined tubes, d, are secured to the sides of the churn tub; these incline forward, as they descend, in the direction in which the dasher is revolved." This rung works out the cuts, then makes the beater from stainless sheet with a printed template (or prints it), fits inclined tubes in a box, and makes butter.