Patent GB-440098-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the manufacture of moulded sugar bodies
IPC: A23G3/02
Filed: 1934-03-12
Abstract: 440,098. Sugar cutters; sugar preparations; tea and coffee preparations. SUSSMUTH, K. W., 1, Adolf Hitler-Strasse, Langenau, near Ulm-on-the-Danube, Germany. March 12, 1934, No. 7809. Convention date, March 13, 1933. [Classes 14 (ii), 127, and 129] [See also Group V] Hollow prismatic bodies of sugar which are open at one end are formed by compressing a body of moist sugar in a mould to form a cake of uniform density, forming in the cake a series of holes extending therethrough, inserting a core in each hole partly to fill the same, applying pressure to the cake to reduce the height thereof and to press sugar around the bottom ends of the cores so as to close the openings in the bottom of the cake, and finally subdividing the cake into a plurality of prismatic bodies. Fig. 1 shows the whole plant, the mould 1, 2 being positioned in succession beneath the parts A, B, C. The part A includes a plunger 5 which forms the sugar cake, B comprises tubular cutters 16 which form the through holes in the cake whilst it is held by a retaining plate 19, whilst C comprises cores 20, which are rotated to prevent them from sticking to the sugar, plungers which press the sugar around the bottoms of the cores, and subdividing knives. The bottoms 1 of the moulds 1, 2 have inter-nesting grooves which receive the subdividing knives. The plunger 5 is depressed by a lever 57 on a cam shaft and is returned by a spring 59. The retaining plate 19 slides in a bracket 53 and is apertured to permit the cutters 16 to slide therein. The cutters are carried by a plate 17 spaced from a plate 64 by struts 63. The plate 19 is depressed by cams 60 on a shaft operated by a lever 67, and the cutters 16 are depressed by a cam 65 on the same shaft bearing on the plate 64. The plugs cut from the cake are ejected into the space 62, and returning springs 61, 66 retract the cutters and plunger to permit the mould to be removed to a position beneath the part C and which comprises a member 31 to which plungers 32<1>, 32<2>, 32<3>, 32<4> are secured, subdividing knives 33<11>, 33<b>, 33<a> arranged between and around the plungers and mounted to move vertically relatively thereto, and cores 201, 20<3>, 20<2>, 20<4> accommodated rotatably and slidably in holes in the plungers. The cores are driven by a motor 29 through a flexible shaft 28 and gearing 24-27 and are journalled in a member 30 which is vertically slidable in a bracket 38. The knives 33<11>, 33b, 33<a> are formed with upstanding extensions 33<a1>, 33b, Fig. 4a, which are received and secured in slots in the lower end of a vertically sliding rod 33<1> which is operated against the action of a spring 41 by a lever 69 bearing on a plate 40. To operate part C, the lever 39 is depressed to depress the member 30 after disengagement of a spring catch 42. When the member 30 contacts with the member 31, the latter is entrained, a catch 45 either slipping or being lifted manually. The downward movement of the members 30, 31 continues to introduce the cores into the holes formed by the cutters '16 and to press the sugar around the bottom ends of the cores. The subdividing knives are then depressed by the lever 69. After subdivision, the lever 39 is raised to raise the cores, plungers and knives as a unit, thereby removing the sugar bodies from the mould. A tray is now inserted beneath the bodies and the lever 39 is further raised to release the knives and cores from the bodies which are thus deposited on the tray, the cores continuing their rotation during the deposition. A modified form of tubular cutter unit is described. The sugar bodies are suitable for the reception of an extract of tea, coffee, or fruit juice.