PROVED MODE OF AND APPARATUS FOR FREEZING ICE PUDDINGS, DESSERT ICES, AND OTHER CONFECTIONERY DISHES."
Year: 1878

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Richard Powell at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 21st March 1878.
"AN IM-
RICHARD POWELL, of Regent's Park, in the County of Middlesex.
PROVED MODE OF AND APPARATUS FOR FREEZING ICE PUDDINGS, DESSERT ICES,
AND OTHER CONFECTIONERY DISHES."
Heretofore it has been customary to freeze ice puddings and other confections by
first placing the material to be frozen in a so-called freezing pot, which is placed
in an ice tub, so that it is surrounded by ice and salt placed in alternate layers in
the said ice tub. The material is then worked with a spatula in a peculiar manner,
requiring some skill, in order to prevent the crystallization of freezing of the
material to an undue extent around the circumference. The material having been
sufficiently frozen is then removed from the freezing pot and put into the orna-
mental mould, which is then placed into the ice tub; the brine having been first
drawn off fresh ice is then added, so as to cover the mould.
Now according to my Invention I dispense entirely with the use of the freezing
pot, and I adapt the ice mould so as to take the place of the freezing pot, all as
herein-after described. For this purpose I provide the ice mould with a cover,
through which passes the end of spatula or stirrer, which has the outlines of
the interior of the mould, and which may have ribs on its flat sides.
I place the mould in the ice tub, so as to be surrounded by ice, as heretofore, the
freezing pot; I put the spatula in and the cover on, and I rotate the mould, the
spatula remaining stationary during the whole or part of the operation; or instead
of entire rotation I may use a partial rotation in alternate opposite directions.
When the confection material has been sufficiently frozen the spatula and cover
are removed, the confection is pressed down in the mould to take the figure of it,
a close cover is put on, and it is covered with ice and left till required in the
usual way.
I prefer to carry out my Invention as follows:-I attach to the ornamental part
or top of the mould when turned down a step or spindle, which fits in a corre-
sponding spindle or step, as the case may be, in the bottom of the ice tub. I form
the cover with a bevil wheel, and I gear into it another bevil wheel, which is on a

page_text: horizontal spindle provided with a turning handle, and working in bearings fitted
to the ice tub. This spindle passes through an eye or fork on the outer end of the
spatula, which is thereby held stationary. On turning the handle the mould is
made to revolve, but it may be revolved in any other convenient manner, the
spatula being stationary, or partly so.
The mould may be fitted or formed with studs, ribs, or agitator appliances below
or on its circumference, or both, so as to agitate the ice and present new surfaces of
contact with the outside of the mould.
The turning spindle may be made to pull out endwise or to lift out of forked
bearings after removing retaining pins.
According to a modified arrangement the spatula may be rotated part of a
revolution, and when it catches against a projection from the ice mould the operator
drags the latter with it a short distance; the operator then turns the spatula in
the opposite direction, and when it catches against a projection from the ice mould,
the operator drags it with it in the opposite direction, and so on until the freezing
is completed.
A shield or partition may be placed under the mould in the tub if required.
This shield may be fixed to the mould or to the tub, or it may be loose.
By my Invention I am enabled to shorten and simplify the process of freezing,
and to make use of entire moulds without top joints, whereby I also avoid the
possibility of the entry of brine into the mould.