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made some improvements on the Burmeister and Wain 

 machine, which accounts for his name being connected 

 with the separator. Fig. 18 shows the Burmeister and 

 Wain separator. The shepherd 's-crook shape outlets for 

 the cream and skimmed-milk used on this machine, 

 and which were adjustable, were invented by Oscar 

 Lamm, Jr., who later sold the DeLaval separator. He 

 secured the patent in 1885. It is stated that Nels H. 

 Blom 1 was the operator of the first centrifugal cream 

 separator in the United States. He used a Burmeister 

 and Wain separator on the farm of Jeppe Slifsgaard, 

 Fredsville, Iowa, in 1882. In order that Burrell and 

 Whitman might sell the Danish-Weston Cream Separator, 

 it was necessary for them to pay a royalty to Theodore 

 Bergner of Philadelphia, who owned both the Thompson 

 and Houston and the Lefeldt and Lentsch patents. 



The DeLaval separator was sold in America by Joseph 

 H. Reall, agent of the Aktiebolaget Separator of Sweden. 

 In 1882 the American DeLaval Company was organized, 

 and Reall became the manager and selling agent. From 

 1883 to 1888 P. M. Sharpies of West Chester, Pennsylvania, 

 and A. L. Vail of Middletown, New York, manufactured 

 the frames for the American DeLaval Company. In 1888 

 the American DeLaval Company established its own 

 manufacturing plant, and shortly afterwards Sharpies 

 began to manufacture a separator of his own, which was 

 known as the Sharpies Separator. 



45. Bowl devices. A device in all separator bowls 

 guides or feeds the whole milk into the region of the 

 greatest centrifugal force. With one exception, all cen- 

 trifugal separators with which the author is familiar have 



1 News Item, Butter, Cheese, and Egg Jour., Vol. 7, No. 41, 

 p. 16, 1916. 



