CREAM SEPARATION 



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to manufacture and sell separators. The Danish- Weston 

 cream separator, which had been manufactured from 1881 

 to 1890, was no longer made. After the expiration of all 

 patents, the Reid separators were patterned after the 

 Danish- Weston. However, they did not have much sale, 

 for they were too big and clumsy. 



46. Later separators. As the separator industry 

 grew, the idea of a centrifugal butter extractor was con- 

 ceived by C. A. Johansson of Stockholm, Sweden. It 

 was manufactured by the United States Butter Extractor 

 Company. This machine 

 first separated the cream 

 from the milk. The cream 

 was conveyed into an inner 

 chamber of the separator 

 bowl. It was churned within 

 the inner chamber and the 

 granules were conveyed in 

 one direction, the buttermilk 

 was carried in another and 

 the skimmed-milk was taken 

 in still another direction. 

 This machine, it is said, was 

 successful in accomplishing 

 what Johansson claimed for 

 it, but the demand for 

 sweet cream butter was not 

 sufficiently great to make 

 the use of a butter ex- 

 tractor popular. The patents on Johansson's butter 

 extractor were purchased by the Vermont Farm Machine 

 Company of Bellows Falls, Vermont. Improvements 

 on this extractor, which was later modeled into a cream 



FIG. 19. The first Sharpies 

 factory separator. 



