Valved Hollow-Staff Plunger Churn: A Valve at the Top, Air Forced Out at the Foot

Ellicott's dasher draws its air down through its own handle. Peter F. Ellicott of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, received US 7,454, dated 25 June 1850, for an atmospheric churn: "in any ordinary vertical churn," an upright hollow staff connected at the bottom to a square or round hollow plunger open below, with air holes in its sides "1/2 inch in diameter," and a valve inside the staff at its top "so arranged that when the said staff and plunger are raised, the valve will open," and when forced down "the valve will close, and the atmospheric air in the plunger will be forced through the body of the milk or cream." This rung works out the air per stroke, then prints the plunger and valve cap, fits them to a hollow staff, and makes butter.