1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class IX.: Alexander and William Smith and Co
266. SMITH, ALEXANDER and WILLIAM, and CO., Woodside Works, Paisley — Inventors and Manufacturers.
Registered centrifugal churn for making butter. The novelty consists in the milk being drawn up from the bottom by the velocity of the cone or disc, and thrown out at the top, in broken portions, with great force, so that none of the milk escapes thorough agitation. These machines are constructed to churn from 5 to 100 gallons.
New steaming apparatus, for preparing food for horses, cattle, etc. The boiler and vessels are of malleable iron.
Corn and bean-bruising machine.
Hay and straw-cutting machine.
Cart and cattle weighing-machine; showing the weight of cattle and sheep, and farm produce, from 1lb. to two tons. It is contained in a cast-iron case.
Jack weighing-machine, for barn purposes, to weigh from 1lb. to three cwt.
Model of water-wheel and sugar-mill.