BUTTER CHURNS EXPORTED

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25796, 6 May 1949, Page 8

BUTTER CHURNS EXPORTED

CHRISTCHURCH FIRM’S PRODUCT

When the Wellpark sails from Lytteltor she will carry in her holds tour of the world’s largest factory butter churns, which have been evolved and produced in a Christchurch engineering works, and for which there is a world-wide demand. Three of these 15-ton churns will be delivered to Australia and the fourtn is consigned to Mombasa, in Kenya, British East Africa. One of the churns is in use at the Polsen model dairy in the native state of Baroda. India.

The churn produced in Christchurch is the result of many years of exhaustive research and experiment by the firm, which has been closely associated with the pastoral development of New Zealand for the last 100 years.

The first churn of the present type was produced in 1937. It is constructed principally of kauri. It is known as an internal-worker churn and *has sufficient capacity for 100 561 b boxes of export butter. This .s by far the largest churn produced anywhere in the world. The churn produces 10 tons of butter or. a working day and holds more than six tons of cream at a filling. With the exception of the 45 horsepower motor which drives the barrel, the ball-bearings and a pair of spiral gears in the gear box. the firm manufactures all the many accessories for the churn.

The churn also produces a butterunloader with a V-tray which runs on guide rails into the churn and carries the masses of butter to an hydraulic butter-packer—also evolved and produced at the works—which trkes the massed butter and extrudes it in exact 561 b “cakes” ready for packing. This system abolishes the fermer handling that took place when export butter was packed.