Rocking Two-Section Barrel Churn: Cream Falls Through a Grate as the Barrel Tips End Over End

McLaughlin knew oscillating churns already existed; he claimed the way he built and hung his. John McLaughlin of Goshen, Ohio, received US 9,117, dated 13 July 1852, for a churn barrel "composed of two sections, within a metallic clasp band, united to pivoted pendant bars," with "a grate J, composed of a circular rim and crossed bars" at the joint. A lever rocks it so the milk or cream is "carried up in one section, and allowed to descend, through a grate, into the lower section." Turned upright on a leg, the upper section lifts off to fill it. This rung looks at the fall, then prints the grate and coupling ring, joins two containers into a barrel, hangs it on a frame, and makes butter.