Johannes Kreimer

Title: Johannes Kreimer and His Butter-Manufacturing Invention.

Introduction

Johannes Kreimer is an inventor associated with Oelde, Germany, and Westfalia Separator AG. His recorded patent concerns a continuous mechanical process for manufacturing butter.

Latest Patents

Kreimer is credited with 1 patent: “Device for Manufacturing Butter,” also described as “A Method of and Device for Manufacturing Butter.” The invention uses a continuous-operation churn with a butter-making cylinder, a buttermilk extractor, and one or more squeeze-offs. After most of the buttermilk is removed, chopped pieces of stored butter or pure fat are added to the remaining butter grains and blended in a squeeze-off. The mixture is then shaped into a homogeneous billet. The design places a chopper above an upstream squeeze-off for each block of butter or fat, with a mechanism to advance the block as it is chopped.

Career Highlights

Kreimer’s listed patent reflects work on improving continuous butter production by combining butter grains with additional butter or fat and forming the mixture into a uniform product. He is associated with Westfalia Separator AG.

Collaborations

Hanno Lehmann and Arnold Uphus are identified as Kreimer’s coworkers. The available information does not specify their roles in the patent or the invention.

Conclusion

Johannes Kreimer’s recorded contribution is a patented approach to continuous butter manufacturing that integrates buttermilk extraction, blending, and shaping into a production process.