Exhibited at Windsor. 
529 
already referred to. Tlie skim-milk delivers through holes near 
the outer edge of a false bottom in the drum, and delivers 
through the centre into tlio casing. The machine is very com- 
pact, and admirably suited to meet the needs of a small dairy. 
The gearing by which the speed is increased between the hand- 
wheel and the vertical spindle of the drum is an adaptation ot 
the old Sun and Planet principle. In the vertical spindle teeth 
are cut, which engage in a gun-metal pinion, which also engages 
Fig. 16. — Hand Cream Separator, "The Victoria." 
in a similar gearing on the underneath side of the pinion into 
which the wheel on the spindle of the hand-wheel gears. The 
system works very smoothly and silently, the ratio of the gear- 
ing being 165-4 to 1 ; thus, working at 48 revolutions of the 
hand-wheel, the revolutions of the drum would be 7,939 per 
minute. The machine works equally well driven in either 
direction. A trial of the machine was made as under : — 
Milk served out 2G-25 lbs. 
Temperature 85° 
Cream 2 lbs. 
Time occupied 8 minutes 
