Orbiting Churn With Rod Rack: The Churn Circles Without Turning, Rods Break the Current

Maxwell moved the whole churn, but not round its own axis. Rufus Maxwell of Lewis County, Virginia, received US 9,218, dated 24 August 1852, for a churn fastened in a frame hung by a hook and staple inside a supporting frame, with a crank connecting the two "so that the center of the bottom of the churn may revolve about a circle, (five or six inches in diameter)." This makes the milk flow round; a rack of parallel rods half an inch apart on a bow of "tough elastic wood" pressing against the sides breaks the current. He claimed forcing the milk through a rack "by revolving the churn in an orbit, without turning it on axis." This rung works out the bottom's speed, then prints the rod holders and orbit crank, builds the frame and rack, and makes butter.