Patent GB-122165-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Dough Feeding and similar Conveyor Mechanism.
Inventor: BAKER ROBERT ELMER
IPC: A21C9/08
Filed: 1918-09-20
Abstract: 122,165. Baker, R. E., Ford, E. H., and Harber, L. S. Jan. 11, 1918, [Convention date]. Discharging-devices for endless-belt conveyers. - Dough and like conveyer feeding mechanisms are constructed so that from one or more conveyers, on which the dough or like receptacles are carried one behind the other, a group of such receptacles is simultaneously discharged so as to form a transverse row of articles. In the example shown, six dough pieces are simultaneously discharged from one conveyer in rows of six abreast on to a conveyer or other device. The frame 11 has shafts 10, 16 at either end, having sprocketwheels 15, 20, around which and over tracks 40 conveyer chains 22 pass. The shaft 10 is driven by gearing 13, 14. The shaft 16 is adjustable by means of slots 18 in the frame, sliding blocks 17, and screws 19, Fig. 4. The conveyer chains are provided at uniform distances apart with brackets 23 having each a transverse sleeve 24 in which a rod 25 is journaled. On each rod is mounted a swinging dough receptacle 32, 33 open at the top and ends and fitted below with a bar or block 34 and a round bar 35 having pads 43 thereon. These pads are set at different regulated distances along the bars (Fig. 1.). The brackets have inward extensions 23<1>, carrying L-shaped crossbars 28, on each of which is centrally mounted the rear wall 29 of one of the receptacles. Each wall has a rearwardh - extending flange 29<1> forming the front wall of the next receptacle. Stationary inwardly-projecting plates or supports 41, 42, Fig. 1, are arranged, with capability of sliding, on each side of the track, and these are cut alternately to form inwardly-projecting steps 41<11>, 42<11>, which correspond with the distances of the pads 43 along their bars. To adjust the supports 41, 42, a cross shaft 47, Fig. 3, having a spring 49 and an external hand-wheel 48 is provided with pinions 46, 46<1> which can engage racks 45 beneath the supports and so turn them. When released, the spring forces the shaft inwards and the pinion 46 engages both the rack 48 and a lug 50 on the underside of the frame extension 11<1>, and thereby the pinion, shaft, and supports are locked against movement. In use, as the receptacles pass up on the left of the conveyer, the bars 35 bear upon a stationary guide-member 38 and are brought into a horizontal position Thereby, where they each receive a dough piece. When six or any other desired number of receptacles have reached their allotted positions over the platen 41, 42, all the pads 43 simultaneously fall off the steps 41<11>, 42<11>, and discharge their contents down the compartments of a. shoot 44 to a transverse band which carries them where desired six abreast. The member 28<1> of each cross-bar 28, Fig. 5, acts as a stop for the receptacle by engaging the block 34 thereon. The bar 35 next engages the guide-pulley 36, and the receptacle is thereby raised as shown. In travelling along the lower run of the conveyer, a bracket 37 from the wall 29 engages the free end of the bottom 32 of the preceding receptacle, and thereby supports it.