Closed-Globe Egg Beater: Concentric Rings in a Shut Sphere

Beaten in an open bowl, egg spatters and the air is not forced into it. James M. Jay of Canton, Ohio, received US 27,054, dated 7 February 1860, for an egg beater whose case is a hollow globe of two halves hinged and caught together; a horizontal shaft through it carries concentric rings, the outer one close to the inside so it sweeps the bottom, turned by a wheel and gear on a stand. "The air which occupies the upper part ... is so closely confined that it can not escape during the operation of beating the eggs, consequently it is carried down and mixed thoroughly with the eggs." This rung works out the air-to-egg ratio, then prints the ring dasher and gears, closes it in two bowls, and times a beating.