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Butter Worker Machine
c. 1940Subcollections
Overview
The Butter Worker is a powered machine that was fed the semi solid churned butter from the Butter Barrow and compressed it into 56 pound cube blocks which were then extruded from the machine via a conveyor belt which would move the blocks along to the Butter Packer machine.
Historical information
It is unknown whether this Butter Worker was actually used in this Butter Factory but we do know it was used in a Butter Factory here in the south west
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cwa-org-124-2021.178
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Contextual Information
By the time the butter reached the Butter Worker machine it was a very large semi solid mass and too large be manually handled. The Butter Worker took this amorphous mass and turned it into 56 Pound (25.4 Kg) blocks ready to for the next stage of the process.
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