No help requests for unidentified drugs/medicine.Īs per reddiquette, posting personal info and photos is doxxing and eligible for account deletion and posts doing so will be removed as will posts asking to find people. No solicitations for financial/medical donations.ĭo not use link shorteners or affiliate/partner links in the body of posts or replies - they will be automatically removed.įor identifying movies/books/music/etc, try /r/tipofmytongueįor identifying video games, try /r/tipofmyjoystickįor identifying paintings, try /r/WhatIsThisPaintingįor current fashion items, try /r/findfashion No searching for or attempts to identify people or lost animals. Nothing illegal (by US laws at least) - including requests for pirated materials (movies/books/music). There are more appropriate subs and it will be removed. If your answer is easy to find with a simple search, your post will be removed. Instead of taking off the lid and digging out the contents, with his package the side is simply ripped open to expose the entire commodity.Google first. He is working out those ideas in his small shop in Greenwich, Connecticut.Īmong the latest is a cardboard package for ice cream, butter, and other commodities which can be removed and sliced. The ice cream end of his business is well under way, he believes, and he is turning his attention to using his piping process for butter, cold cream, lard, and other such mixtures. Vogt figures a potential capacity peak of 1,750,000,000 feet per year. The first plant using his system was opened in Detroit in 1932, and now the plants using his system have a total capacity of 100 miles of ice cream a day, about seven feet to the gallon. He figures a twenty five percent savings in power and refrigeration over the old method for making bulk ice cream, no savings in the finished product because of other costs which are higher, and a twenty percent final saving between his product delivered wrapped and bulk ice cream delivered in the same manner. Ice cream ingredients are poured into the pipes, mixed, frozen, forced out under pressure in long rolls, chopped off in small pieces, wrapped and delivered. Today his patented process makes ice cream by the mile in pipes- one continuous process instead of in batches. One day the refrigerated pipe which carried the mixture to the snow making point froze… too much brine around the pipe.īut the frozen ice cream mixture in the pipe was good to eat, Vogt found, and that started him on his new idea. Vogt tried making it, among other ways, in flakes-like snow- and putting it into cakes that way. But sometimes the batches varied in quality, and the process took time. The mixture was poured into a freezer, paddled, and poured out and frozen solid. Ice cream for years has been made in batches. Then he tried to change the age-old process for making ice cream, a delicacy the Romans are said to have made using snow for refrigeration. And then the tobacco company asked him to fix some other little things in a plant manufacturing small bricks of ice cream. About seven years ago he was working at his own plant in Louisville when a large tobacco company found it couldn’t keep the half-block-long sheets of waxed paper for tobacco tins from sticking together in hot weather. Vogt, born in Louisville, KY., studied refrigeration engineering at Cornell University. That’s what he said, “One thousand dollars a day.” And just a year ago he was struggling along on $100 dollars a day making ice cream by the foot instead of by the gallon. Vogt laid the foundation for an income of $1,000 dollars a day. When paper for lining tobacco tins stuck together and a pipe froze, Clarence W. One of them is ice cream by the mile, which is making him a fortune. He gets his ideas from cantankerous refrigeration pipes. In honor of my father’s upcoming 122nd birthday December 30th, here are two new items to add to the published research about his legacy as an inventor: an article I wrote for the Louisville Historical League this summer “Clarence Vogt, Prolific Inventor from Louisville” (click here) which finally tells his story to the folks of his native city, and the following newspaper piece from 1934 wherein a simple breakdown of a manufacturing process appears to have led to the development of his world famous Votator.Īs always, thanks to my sister Sarah for all her research and for finding this article.Įmporia Gazette, The (Newspaper) – Wednesday September 12, 1934, Emporia, KansasĬAPTION: Clarence Vogt is a refrigeration engineer.
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