Folding-Float V-Bottom Churn: Floats That Close Into a V on the Down-Stroke

Clement wanted the dasher to close on the way down and open on the way up. Edwin B. Clement of Barnet, Vermont, received US 8,671, dated 20 January 1852, for a churn whose vessel is a box with a bottom of "two pieces square to each other, the corner pointing downward," and a dasher of two bevelled end pieces, a lengthwise cross piece and "two loose or swinging floats." Closed, the floats fit the bottom, leaving three-eighths to half an inch at the sides for the cream to pass up; raised, they swing apart against pins, "leaving the floats inclining toward the center, so that they may more readily close when they strike the cream." A lever on a post works it. This rung works out the gaps, then prints the end pieces and floats, builds a V-bottomed box and lever, and makes butter.