A NEW BUTTER EXTRACTOR.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2918, 28 March 1891, Page 4

A NEW BUTTER EXTRACTOR.

Mh JoriANNSO.w a Swedish engineer, claims to have introduced tlio simplest ii ml most rapid ni:i<.-liiii>;ry by which uew milk can bo mude into butter. The- extractor excited great interest when shown at Windsor last year, at the Jubilee Show of tho Royal Agricul tiinil Society, whew it received the highest award, and it has since been once or twice privately exhibited, but our lit the Holland Park Dairy is the first erected in England for practical uac. The machine occupies but little space, and is n, modified form of the centrifugal apparatus by which cream in separated. Fresh milk, at a temperature of (iO to 62 (leg. is introduced ;it the top of tin; machino in a large vat, and, through radial inlets, is forced down upon a drain revolving at :i rate of 0000 to 7000 times a minute. This rapid rotation separated the butter globules, which, as they sink down, :iro gradually removed from the " skim " milk, and", thanks to admirably contrived mechanism, are delivered ready for washing and making up in a tub ot the base of tho drum, whilo tho wautn milk is poured away through another pipe. Scarcely the least percentage of fat is left m the milk, and tho butter, itself perfectly free from casein, leaves the extractor iuminntc granules of very exceedingly even substance, which are easily manipulated by the ordinary process of making up. From tho time that milk is first poured in to the time it reappears as butter, slightly less than Ihren minutes is occupied. The n lachino shown in working could deal with fifteen hundred pounds of milk an hour, the yield of butter, of course, depending upon its quality, and requires a small engine of about one horso power.

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