The Crown Separator.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 10, 14 January 1901, Page 4

The Crown Separator.

EXHIBITION AT PATUTAHI. A large number of dairy farmers and those interested in dairying met at the Patutahi Hall on Thursday evening to witness an exhibition of the Crown cream separator; given by Mr T. F. Pond, the English representative of the Company. The weather was very unfavorable, and many who intended to be present were unable owing to the rain, Mr Pond first showed the mechanism of the separator, which is very simple, and is practically composed of the bowl and cross spindle, which are run on cone bearings and are made of speoially-hardened steel, and can be adjusted by giving the centres a slight turn as they wear. This is a great feature, doing away with numerous brasses and bearings, which are necessary in other machines. The working parts can be taken out and the machine entirely-dismantled in a few seconds. Those present were greatly astonished at the simplicity of the mechanism. Up to the present it has been a great drawback to dairy farmers using a separator that the machines have been so complicated, requiring a skilled mechanic to understand the working; but it has been the aim of the inventor of the Crown separator to produce a machine that anyone can understand, and in this he has been entirely successful. This was demonstrated by one of the gentlemen present, who put the machine together correctly without any previous experience, A great feature of the machine is its easyj running free wheel. Directly the pressure is taken off the handle the only part which continues to revolve is the bowl. This gives the minimum amount of wear, and saves pounds to the user in the life of a machine. A very objectionable feature in some machines is the liability of anything -to get between the cogs and smash the machine. This has been done away with in the Crown and rentiers the machine entirely free from danger. Milk was run through the separator, and the great facility for regulating the thickness of the cream and the small number of parts were admired by all, the interior of the bowl consisting of about one-tenth less tins than other machines. The easy running and great skimming capacity surprised many, some of the ladies and boys present turning the machine with comparative ease. A test of the skim milk taken showed practically no butter fat. These machines are said to hold the record for clean skimming, beating all others at the Maidstone Boyal Show, England. At the Paris Exhibition these separators were awarded the only Grand Prix in working trial, thus beating ail known makers of separators in the world. At the close of the evening a vote of thanks to “Mr Pond and the agents (the Loan and Mercantile Agency Company) was proposed by Mr Harrison and seconded by Mr Bobb for the very interesting and instructive exhibition. Among those who tried their hand at working the separator were a number of ladies, who were very muoh pleased with the machine, and said they could manipulate it with ease.

The prices and sizes are as follows: Crown KO, 9 gallons, £7; Crown KOO, 11 gals., £S; Crown 800, lOgals., £9los; Crown 81, 2Sgals, £l2 ; Crown K2, 38gals,, £l4 10s; Crown K 3, 50gals., £lB 10s; Crown 82, 55 gals., £2l 10s; Crown 83, SOgals., £32 10s.