How Is a Hand Crank Mixer Made?
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Hand crank mixers are ideal kitchen tools for people living off the grid or looking to conserve energy. With no power cords to worry about, a hand crank mixer works strictly off a person's muscle power. Hand crank mixers can take the place of electric mixers, electric bread machines and electric meat mixers.
A Simple Design
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A hand cranked mixer is a very simple design, although most big-name manufacturers no longer make a hand-cranked product. The most basic of hand crank mixers is the egg beater. This device can scramble eggs or mix other liquid ingredients that need whisking.
All hand crank mixers utilize the simple gear and shaft design. Manufacturers start by attaching gears to a base. The hand crank handle is then attached to the gears through the means of another gear or a rod. When the handle turns, it spins the gear that it is attached to, which in turn spins the gears attached to the mixing implement.
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Countertop Models
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Larger hand crank mixers have no motors or other electrical devices. These mixers use the shaft and gear design to move a blade or mixer attachment, such as a dough hook or whisk, to mix foods together.
A countertop mixer will have a metal base that has one or two rods running through it. The rods are where the crank handle attaches to the machine for mixing. Once the handle attaches to the rods, manual cranking causes the gears inside the machine to spin the shaft, which has the mixer implement attached to it.
On a Larger Scale
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A hand crank meat mixer is manufactured with more parts and implements than a basic countertop mixer. Since these mixers are usually used for large quantities of meat, they must be large in size.
The hand crank meat mixer has a metal housing and lid. The mixer is a paddle or blade attached to a large gear, which is situated above a smaller gear. Using a wing nut, the crank is attached to the smaller gear. When the handle turns, the rotation of the smaller gear causes the larger gear to turn and cranks up the paddle for mixing.
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