S-Dasher Friction-Board Churn: A Double-Curved Dasher Throwing Cream Over Grooved Boards

The Walkers lined a square churn with grooved boards so the cream would be thrown against them "thus keeping up a constant friction on all sides." William Walker and Matthew C. Walker of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, received US 7,554, dated 6 August 1850, for a square water-tight box about fourteen inches each way holding about 40 quarts, half filled, with a "double curved or S shaped dasher" revolving in the centre by a crank and a thumb screw. Four grooved cross pieces run along each side of its curved ends; a friction board grooved underneath inclines across the top; a triangular board returns the cream onto it; a grooved friction piece sits in the lower right corner. This rung checks the box's capacity, then prints the S dasher, friction boards and corner piece, fits them in a box, and makes butter.