X-Beater Centrifugal-Tube Churn: Crossed Beaters With Tubes That Throw the Cream Out

Skinner wanted to stop the cream "being carried round with the beaters in a circular mass." Henry Skinner of Attica, New York, received US 8,596, dated 16 December 1851, for a churn tub shaped as a frustum of a cone with four vertical ledges inside, and a dasher of two beaters fixed at their lower ends to an angular board and at their upper ends to a cross piece, inclining upward in contrary directions "so as to form a figure resembling the letter X." Tapered tin tubes from openings in the beaters, not in the same horizontal plane, discharge the cream centrifugally against the ledges and the tub. A dish-shaped plate in the bottom guides the shaft's point into its bearing. This rung works out the throw, then prints the X beaters with their tubes and the dish plate, fits them in a tub, and makes butter.