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      Creator(s):
O'Connell & Kerr, Kensington, Vic.

Date: 1900 -

Description: Ball action pressure pump, fluted piston, no valves. Used in dairies - general purpose. Used with milking machines and for butter factories. Belt dirven from a counter shaft. Action - ball joint on disc. Fluted piston that pumps from right to left, able to pump in either direction by crossing a belt from the counter-shaft. Replaced today by centrifugal pumps. Purchased from Deloraine butter factory.

Format: Realia
Object: pumps

Titles:
Unique Pump

Subjects: dairy farmsmilkingdairy industrypumps

Places: Deloraine, Tasmania

Institution: Grubb Shaft Gold and Heritage Museum

Object number: GSM_00016

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