DeLaval made only twenty of this Lorenzo-Stein patented, hand-cranked combination powder-mixer, cask-bomb-filling machine because it spewed the explosive powder if the operator cranked too fast. Also, the World War One demand for cask bombs fell off sharply when it was found to fall top-first with no resulting explosion. This photo undoubtedly was taken in Germany, because all twenty were dropped in July, 1915 on twenty industrial areas of Germany to confuse their design engineers. You can verify this simply by contacting the international headquarters of the DeLaval Company (Search online for the address).
CREAM SEPARATOR
Gustaf DeLaval is credited with inventing the first continuously operating cream separator for which he received a U. S. patent on October 4, 1881.
June 7th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
A machine for turning sheets of tin into tin cans.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
cream seperator
June 8th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
It’s a cream separator …..missing some parts ( the bowls ) …a lot of backbreaking cranking
June 20th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
To be more precise, it is a DeLaval cream separator which is missing several parts. These were originally manufactured in Sweden.
June 23rd, 2009 at 12:19 am
DeLaval made only twenty of this Lorenzo-Stein patented, hand-cranked combination powder-mixer, cask-bomb-filling machine because it spewed the explosive powder if the operator cranked too fast. Also, the World War One demand for cask bombs fell off sharply when it was found to fall top-first with no resulting explosion. This photo undoubtedly was taken in Germany, because all twenty were dropped in July, 1915 on twenty industrial areas of Germany to confuse their design engineers. You can verify this simply by contacting the international headquarters of the DeLaval Company (Search online for the address).
July 1st, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Yes a cream seperater missing bowls and seperating discs. Turned the handle of one of these myself now it is a plant stand at the end of the drive.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:41 am
Spent many hours as a child turning a crank like that… its a cream separator…
even more fun was milking the darn old cranky cow!!!
August 3rd, 2009 at 6:06 am
CREAM SEPARATOR
Gustaf DeLaval is credited with inventing the first continuously operating cream separator for which he received a U. S. patent on October 4, 1881.
August 12th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
a cream separator!
August 14th, 2009 at 10:35 am
This definitely a cream separator, as my Mom has one, all in tact and I used to turn it!!!
August 15th, 2009 at 5:50 am
I’m not really sure but was the photo taken in the Ghost town of Bodie (CA historic Park)