Improvements appertaining to Sugar Boiling, Fruit Preserving, or other analogous Swing Tip Pans.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 26th June, 1895-Accepted, 27th July, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements appertaining to Sugar Boiling, Fruit Preserving, or
other analogous Swing Tip Pans.
I WILLIAM BRIERLEY of The Borough Brass Works Rochdale in the County
of Lancaster Confectioner's Machinist 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:—
My invention relates to sugar boiling jam or fruit preserving or other analogous
swing tip pans used by confectioners and others which pans are adapted to and do turn
about an axis for the purpose of pouring out the boiled sugar or other contents but
this invention is more particularly shewn in the drawings herewith applied to a jam
or sugar boiling pan.
It is well known that in arrangements as now used it is generally necessary more
or less to employ both hands when manipulating the mechanism for decanting the
pan, for the purposes hereinbefore stated, which oftentimes is the cause of much
loss of time during this operation due to the adjustment of a pawl or insertion of a
pin, the object of my invention being to provide in connection with such pans above
named, a means or arrangement in connection with the ordinary handle for actuating
tilting, or decanting the pan, thus by such means to obviate the disadvantages or
objections before named.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood I have reference to the
accompanying sheet of drawings in which similar letters of reference indicate like
parts.
Fig. 1 is a side clevation of a sugar boiling pan shewing the lever or handle
with my invention applied thereto.
Fig. 2 is a front elevation of Fig. 1.
According to my construction and arrangement I provide on the trunnion a. the
ordinary handle b. which trunnion is, as is well known-when the handle b is
suitably actuated-free to turn in its bearing c see Fig. 2. I also provide on the
framework of the machine an ordinary fixed and notched quadrant piece d, secured
in any suitable manner to the said framework. The essential feature of my
invention consists in applying thereto-that is, the handle b, and the notched
quadrant piece d-in combination a spring actuated or operated rod or lever e.
which is supported in position on the handle b. by means of supporting pieces f.
and g.
The rod is attached or connected at its upper part to a L shaped lever or
piece e¹ thro' the medium of the connecting link e², the lower part of the said rod
is caused to press or bear against the surface of the quadrant piece and to enter
into one of the notched parts d',-when opposite such part-by the agency of the
coiled spring or piece which spring is inserted or interposed between the fixed
support fand a stud or pin h¹ on the rod or lever e.
The operation is as follows.
When the pan is tilted or decanted the operator presses the ☐ shaped lever e¹
against the extremity of or the lever handle 6' consequently such operation causes
the rod e. to rise cut of or from engagement with one of the notches d¹ of the
quadrant piece d. the pan being then free to turn or is free from the retaining
influence or control of the spring actuated rod e-that is, the handle attached to
the trunnion is then out of contact with the fixed piece or quadrant.
Again when the operator removes his hand froin the handle the spring h. forces
the lower end of the rod or lever el into engagement with the quadrant piece,
consequently whatever may be the position of the pan, which may be situate at an

page_text: angle or assume a tilted position the engagement of the rod e with a notch d
maintains or retains the pan in such decanted or tilted position thus accidents may
be obviated which may arise from the spilling of the contents, which may occur
in the event of the operator losing control of the pan during the tilting operation
or removing the hand at an inopportune period as the case may be, the pan may
thus according to the arrangement as herein shewn and described be effectually
manipulated or controlled with one hand obviating the use of both, more or less,
as is the case with the use of the ordinary pin or pawl as now used and well
known.
I would have it understood that I do not claim as novel the application of the
fixed quadrant piece with a corresponding retaining piece or catch as these have
I am well aware been hitherto employed and are now in common use but what I
do consider to be novel is the particular means or combination of a spring actuated
rod or piece with the ordinary quadrant piece and tilting handle adapted to
operate in the manner as particularly herein described and shewn in the drawings
hereunto annexed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is.
1. In combination the notched quadrant piece d. the spring actuated rod e. the
lever b. which rod is adapted to rise and fall with relation to the handle b, and
adapted to actuate or operate when the handle b, is manipulated substantially as
and for the purposes herein fully set forth and described in the drawings hereunto
annexed.
2. The spring actuated rod e as and for the purposes herein fully set forth and
described in the drawings hereunto.
Dated this 24th day of June 1805
J. H. BUTTERWORTH,
Rochdale, for the Applicant.