Patent GB-281040-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to the manufacture of confectionery
IPC: A23G3/24
Filed: 1926-09-17
Abstract: 281,040. Baker Perkins, Ltd., Shaw, R. N., and Soc. Anon. Anciens Etablissements A. Savy Jeanjean et Cie. Sept. 17, 1926. Coating confectioners' goods.-A sweetmeat is produced by impaling a centre on a spike, dipping in coating-substance, and twirling the spike in an inclined position while withdrawing it from the coating substance. The sweetmeat is loosened from the spike by rotating the spike in an approximately vertical position whilst the sweetmeat is in contact with a receiving surface on which it is left when the spike is withdrawn. As shown in Figs. 1, 4, 6, the centres are placed in recesses in a table b which is rotated intermittently by Geneva stop mechanism b<6> to bring a number e.g. four, of centres under a series of spikes e, three of which series are carried by brackets d pivotally attached at c<2> to a toothed wheel c having three sets of projections c<3>, formed like a Geneva stop. The wheel e is driven by a toothed mutilated wheel h<1> so that the wheel c is rotated one-third of a revolution between the dwells during which the spikes are moved simultaneously, by means described from the inclined positions shown in Fig. 4 to the vertical position shown in Fig. 1. In the latter position, one series of spikes are being impaled in the centres, the next series are dipped in the coating trough f and the third series are being rotated to discharge the sweetmeats on to the cooled conveyer g. The spikes are rocked by means comprising a pinion k on the driving-shaft h meshing with a toothed wheel l having twice as many teeth and loose on the shaft c<1>. A planet-wheel l<1> is carried on the wheel l and meshes with a sun-wheel l<2> having twice as many teeth as the wheel l<a> and being hinged to the shaft c<1>. The wheel l<1> is secured to an arm l<3> having a roller l<4> at its end working in a slot l<5> in an arm l<6> rigid with a gear wheel j which is meshed with pinions i. The pinions i are half the size of the wheel j and are fast on the pivot pins c<2> of the brackets d. During one revolution of the driving-shaft h, the path of the roller l<4> is such that the arm l<6> and wheel j are first rotated clockwise through an angle of 180‹ and then counter-clockwise through a distance sufficient to rock the spikes to a substantially vertical position after which they are retured to the position shown in Fig. 4 by a clockwise movement of the toothed wheel l. The spikes e carry pinion m, Fig. 6, which engage a rack m<1> which protrudes from the bracket d and contacts, adjacent the dipping-position, with a cam plate n which forces in the rack m<1> and causes the spikes to rotate when in an inclined position. When the spikes are positioned over the conveyer g to loosen the sweetmeats prior to release, the other end of the rack is pushed in by a cam and link operated member o. The spikes are slidable in the brackets d, springs e<1> pressing them outwards. Electric heaters e<2> may be provided to prevent accumulation of coating substance on the spikes. The conveyer g is operated from the main shaft by ratchet mechanism g<3>, g<4>.