Planetary Stand Mixer

The rotary egg beater already published spins two blades on fixed axes - so the cook must keep moving it, and a stiff dough stalls it. Herbert Johnston, an engineer at Hobart, watched a baker turning dough with a spoon and built the next rung: the beater turns on its own axis while a carrier walks it round the bowl, so the blade sweeps everywhere without the bowl or the beater being moved by hand. **US 1,264,128**, "Mixing-machine", Johnston and Rataiczak, assigned to Hobart Manufacturing, filed 1. March 1915, granted 23. April 1918. Hobart's big bakery machines came first; the domestic KitchenAid followed in 1919. **You build the motion, not the appliance**: a planetary gear set with a pen for a blade, drawing its own path on paper, and a coverage measurement against a fixed-axis beater.