Improvements in Apparatus for Cutting or Slicing Bread.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 19th June, 1890-Accepted, 26th July, 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Cutting or Slicing Bread.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM FOLLOWs, of Gorton, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer
and Agricultural Implement Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to apparatus which is constructed with a table or support to
receive the loaf to be operated upon, and a sliding frame carrying a knife which at
each stroke cuts off a slice.
In these machines it is deemed essential that the surfaces with which the bread
comes in contact should be made of, or protected by, some material which will always
present a clean appearance and be easily washed or kept clean.
Hitherto the machines have been usually made with a thick slab of marble attached
to the three principal parts which the bread touches viz. :-The table upon which the
loaf is laid the upright support against which it is cut, and the gauge plate which
regulates the thickness of the slice. Besides being expensive and very liable to be
broken, these slabs of marble are objectionable in that they add very considerably to
the weight of the apparatus.
I have found that the marble slabs may be dispensed with, and that a stronger
apparatus may be constructed equally serviceable and at considerably less cost by
covering the several parts mentioned.
The invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings
which as an example show the apparatus in one form constructed according to my
invention.
Fig., 1, is a front elevation.
Fig., 2, end elevation, part in section, on line 2, n.
Fig., 3, plan, part in section, on line y, y
The apparatus is constructed in the usual form with a table A on which the bread
is laid; an upright support B to prevent it slipping, and against which it is cut; a
stationary frame C, and a sliding frame D which carries a knife E and an adjustable
gauge plate F. These parts are constructed of any usual or ordinary form.
Upon the adjacent surfaces of the table A, the upright support B, and the adjustable
gauge plate F, I attach a sheet G of enamelled metal such as iron or steel preferably
thin sheet iron, enamelled with a white vitreous enamel on one side and with blue
enamel on the other side. These enamelled sheets of metal are secured to the surfaces
by screws or other suitable connecting device and give a clean surface in the
required parts while at the same time they increase the rigidity and strength of the
apparatus without adding much to the weight. If desired, the unprotected or
uncovered part d, behind the knife blade E, may also be covered with a plate of the
enamelled iron.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
A bread cutting or slicing apparatus, having the surfaces of the table A, the
upright support B, and the gauge plate F, or other surface with which the bread
comes in contact, covered or protected by a thin metal sheet enamelled with a vitreous
enamel, substantially as described and shown.
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