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Air-Chest Spiral Agitator Churn: A Disk That Draws Air Down Its Agitator Into the Cream
Emma

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Emma

7. outubro 2026SE
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Air-Chest Spiral Agitator Churn: A Disk That Draws Air Down Its Agitator Into the Cream

Webster shaped the agitator so the turning disk breathes air into the cream. Hazen Webster of Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, New York, received US 12,370, dated 6 February 1855, for a "Machine for Producing Butter, called 'Webster Air-Chest Agitator'": a round open disk A with openings a, b, c, turning at the bottom of a square or circular box, carrying "a spiral inclined air agitator" B whose sides run from near the centre and diverge "with a curve or circle toward the circumference," surmounted toward the rim by vertical breakers. Turning, it "opens a passage for the air down through the opening a, and so discharges from the bottom of the churn ... up through the agitator B, up through the letter b." This rung works out the speed the air passage needs, then prints the air chest (disk, agitator and breaker in one), the step and gears, builds the churn, and makes butter.
Intermediário
About 4 hours, plus printing

Instruções

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Breathing air in

A carregar o notebook Jupyter…
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The air disk it builds on

The embedded blueprint is S. P. Francisco's disk at the bottom of the churn with a tubular stem admitting air, which Webster names and does not claim. Webster claims the spiral agitator on such a disk.
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Read US 12,370

"What I do claim, in combination with such rotating disk, is— That form of the agitator which occupies the central portions of the disk and sweeps toward the circumference in a spiral shape with rounded angles, and is surmounted toward the circumference with one or more vertical breakers, and this I claim whether used with or without the air passages herein described."
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Print the parts

Print the air chest, disk down (/uploads/blueprints/air-chest-spiral-agitator-churn-air-chest.stl): the disk with its channel from a to the hooded mouth b, the spiral agitator with the opening c near its top, and the breaker. Print the step (/uploads/blueprints/air-chest-spiral-agitator-churn-step.stl), the 36-tooth crown wheel (/uploads/blueprints/air-chest-spiral-agitator-churn-crown-wheel.stl), the 12-tooth pinion (/uploads/blueprints/air-chest-spiral-agitator-churn-pinion.stl) and the standard (/uploads/blueprints/air-chest-spiral-agitator-churn-standard.stl). Print in PETG at 0.2 mm layers, 30 % infill, 4 walls; wash before first use.

Materiais para este passo:

Filamento PETGFilamento PETG1 peça

Ferramentas necessárias:

Impressora 3D de filamento (FDM)Impressora 3D de filamento (FDM)
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The churn

Use a straight-sided round food-grade container about 190 mm across inside and 230 mm deep. Stand the step in its bottom and a 10 mm square hardwood shaft in the step; slide the air chest down the shaft onto the step.

Materiais para este passo:

Recipiente de armazenamento de grau alimentarRecipiente de armazenamento de grau alimentar1 peça
Cavilhas de madeira duraCavilhas de madeira dura1 peça

Ferramentas necessárias:

SerroteSerrote
LixaLixa
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Lid, gears and crank

Cut the lid in half and fix one half with a hole for the shaft. Push the pinion onto the shaft's top, screw the standard to the lid half and run a short 10 mm rod through its bearing into the crown wheel so its teeth mesh the pinion; screw a dowel handle into the wheel's boss.

Materiais para este passo:

Varão de aço macioVarão de aço macio1 peça
Cavilhas de madeira duraCavilhas de madeira dura1 peça
Parafuso para madeira n.º 8 x 1"Parafuso para madeira n.º 8 x 1"1 peça
Parafusos de máquinaParafusos de máquina1 peça

Ferramentas necessárias:

Serra de arco para metaisSerra de arco para metais
Conjunto de chaves de fendasConjunto de chaves de fendas
Berbequim sem fiosBerbequim sem fios
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The build in 3D

FreeCAD model of this build, not of the patent: the tub cut away to show the air chest on its step, the spiral agitator rising above the cream line with the opening c near its top, the breaker, and the crown wheel and pinion on the half lid.
Arquivo de designBLENDCC0 - Free
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Churn and watch for air

Let the heavy cream stand until it reaches about 15 °C, checked with the thermometer. Pour in 2 litres, so the agitator's top stands above the cream. Crank briskly and watch for bubbles rising from the rim; time until the butter comes. Pour off the buttermilk, add cold water, churn a little and pour off again until it runs clear; work in a pinch of salt and weigh the butter.
Passo 8 - Image 1

Materiais para este passo:

Natas para baterNatas para bater2000 ml
Sal marinho grossoSal marinho grosso1 peça
ÁguaÁgua1 peça

Ferramentas necessárias:

Termómetro de sonda permanenteTermómetro de sonda permanente
CronómetroCronómetro
Balança digital de cozinhaBalança digital de cozinha
Taça grande de aço inoxidávelTaça grande de aço inoxidável
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No bubbles from the rim

Air-chest agitator troubleshooting.

Flow

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History and honest limits

**Hazen Webster** of Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, New York, received US 12,370, dated 6 February 1855; he signed on 18 January 1855. He wrote that in trials it produced "some fifteen to twenty per cent more butter" and gathered it "in from four to eight minutes"; those are his claims, not tested here. He disclaimed the rotating disk with a tubular air stem "as these have been used before with the churn of S. P. Francisco, patented June 19th 1847"; Francisco's US 6,544 is dated 19 June 1849. **Honest limits.** A container, printed parts and a crown wheel stand in for his box and drive, which he did not describe. The notebook's speeds are estimates; by hand the air may not flow (see the churns in MED-2518). FDM prints hold food in their layer lines, so wash well and replace when worn. Your times and weights are the result.

Materiais

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Ferramentas necessárias

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Ficheiros de design

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