Improvements in Apparatus for the Automatic Delivery of Sliced Sausage and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Apr., 1899-Accepted, 17th Mar., 1900
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for the Automatic Delivery of Sliced
Sausage and the like.
We, CARL WILHELM ALBERT MAACK, of 31, Emilien Strasse, Merchant, and
AUGUST HEINRICH KRANZ, of 59, Borgesch Strasse, Mechanician, both of Hamburg,
in the Empire of Germany, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention relates to an apparatus for use in automatically delivering
sausages cut into slices equal to a predetermined weight for a certain money value.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which:
Figure 1 shows the internal arrangement of the apparatus partly in section.
Figure 2 shows a plan of the feeding arrangement.
Figure 3 shows a cross section of the scale taken on line C D Figure 1, an
Figure 4 shows in elevation the device for drawing out the tray.
Fig. 5 is a section taken on the line -, Fig. 2, and
Fig. is a section taken on the line y-y Fig. 2.
The apparatus is used in the following manner: The sausage a is introduced
through a suitable aperture in the casing b and rests on the conveying or feeding
device the stationary frame of which is designated by c.
The mechanism may be arranged so that on the consumer paying a certain
price to the proprietor in whose shop the apparatus is fixed, the owner by means
of a handle releases the apparatus and thus causes the same to act. In this
case the owner is merely saved the trouble of having to cut the sausage.
It is however preferable to construct the apparatus in the manner shown in the
accompanying drawing so as to be operated by the insertion of a coin.
The coin is introduced through the slot d into a box shaped receptacle c¹ of a
lever causing the latter, by being thus weighted, to descend and thereby dis-
engage the pawl f, on its short arm, from the ratchet wheel g in connection with
a spring controlled clock work L.
The motion of the clock work L is transmitted by the shaft h to the shaft i
which latter gives motion to an eccentric J. The eccentric J is furnished with a
loose strap to which is connected a knife-blade held at its outer end by a
pin m provided on a crank dise m. It will thus be seen that the knife blade has
à combined vertical and to and fro motion which facilitates the operation of
cutting.
After each cut the apparatus is caused to advance for the thickness of a slice
through the action of a special feeding device.
The feeding arrangement consists of the fixed frame e forned with a number
of longitudinal slots o.
Below this frame there is arranged a movable plate to which are fixed ribs or
ledges having cross-teeth and adapted to pass through and project above the
Ingitudinal slots o. At the underside and close to the ends of the plate n there
are provided housings 2 torming square passages in which are disposed eccentric
.

page_text: rollers operated by the main driving mechanism so as to rotate uniformly. The
eccentricity of the rollers imparts to the plate and its ribs or ledges a correspond-
ing swinging motion. Thus the teeth of the ribs or ledges n' of the plate n
alternately appear and disappear above the surface of the plate c while at the
same time performing a forward motion.
The article being fed forward is slightly lifted by the teeth of the ribs n¹ and
fed forward during the advance-motion of the plate and is finally left on the
frame while the rollers and the plate continue their movement until again
effecting another lifting and feeding motion of the article, and so on.
The motions of the knife blade and of the feed plate respectively are so timed
that the knife is out of the path of the sausage while the same is being raised
and fed forward; the diameter of the sausage must obviously be less than is the
lift of the knife, so as to allow at the same time for the upward throw of the
eccentric q.
The slices on being cut fall upon the tray of the scale w through a cut away
portion provided for this purpose in the frame c.
The scale may either be furnished with sliding scales, or may be a decimal
scale, or an ordinary balance or beam scale. In every case the weight of the
scale can be previously adjusted by opening a flap 61 in the casing b.
The tray of the scale consists of two parts, a fixed plater and a loose plate r¹
Figure 3 through which plates passes a slide s a suitable space being left for this
purpose between the two parts ŕ and r¹.
At the
As soon as there are enough slices on the plate r¹ to exceed the weight on the
scale, the tray descends and the part 1 comes to rest upon the slide s.
same time the stop pin or arm is withdrawn from the bend s of the slides and
allows of the latter being pulled out by means of its handle & Figures 1 and 4.
A pin 3 limits the extent of this forward movement and the projection ** serves
in moving the loose tray outward.
The slices are taken off the tray by the aid of a blade v and can then be wrapped
up in paper taken from a pile of paper P.
At the same time with the downward movement of the tray of the scale the
rod wis depressed and this causes the lever to raise and lift by its projection .'
the lever e back into its normal position so allowing the catch pawl f to engage
the ratchet wheel and stop the clockwork until again released through the
insertion of a coin.
A swivel piece y is arranged so as to prevent the coin slipping off the lever and
FO allow the same to return prematurely to its intial position.
The lever is arranged to engage during its upward motion, under a short
arm of the swivel piece y and then turn the same into the dotted position
shown in Figure 1 so allowing the coin to drop off. On pushing back the slide s
the scale is enabled to regain its initial position and at the same time to take
with it the rod w and lever r, the latter then strikes against the arm² of the
swivel piece and so returns the latter.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
:-
1. An apparatus for the automatic delivery of a weighted predetermined quantity
of sausage cut into slices, characterized by a reciprocating knife-blade operated
by an eccentric and which cuts off slices from the sausage as it is fed forward
until there are sufficient of such slices on the scale to cause this latter to descend
and by means of a lever arrangement w x c and pawl f in connection with the
ratchet wheel g to stop the clockwork.
2. An arrangement for the automatic delivery of a predetermined quantity in
weight of sausage cut into slices as claimed in Claim 1, provided with a scale having
a removable sliding tray r¹ adapted to be drawn out by means of a handle t in

page_text: connection with a slide s and projections, such slide being normally retained by
an arm or stop pin on the scale but disengaged by the tray of the latter
descending on receiving the correct weight of sliced sausage.
Dated this 22nd day of April 1899.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.