Improvements in Apparatus for Mashing of Fruits, or other Substances.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 27th July, 1887
Complete Left, 21st Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 25th May, 1888
Improvements in Apparatus for Mashing of
Fruits, or other Substances.
I
1 FREDERICK WILLIAM FOLLOWS of Gorton in the County of Lancaster Engineer
and Agricultural Implement Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates chiefly to improvements upon an apparatus at present made
by the trading company Follows & Bate Limited and known as the "Rapid."
In this apparatus no provision is made for expelling the contents, when not
requiring to be mashed or forced through the perforated sides, otherwise than
through the top of the apparatus. Nor is any provision made for renewing the side
plates of the chamber or receptacle without re-making the whole machine or substi-
tuting a new one. By reason of this the apparatus has not been practicable except in
a very small size & the object of the present invention is to provide a practical and
bandy apparatus of a much larger size than hitherto, but without the objections above
stated.
It consists essentially of making the perforated side plate of the chamber movable
and fixing the chamber in a strong supporting frame from which it can be detached
for renewal or repair.
In carrying out the invention I construct a strong framework and support prefer-
ably of cast iron and rectangular in plan, and to this framework connect the pressing
chamber which is of a shape similar to those at present constructed. The presser is
hinged or pivotted to the frame at one side of the rectangular opening and is fitted
with a handle loose or removable preferably of hollow metal or piping to render it
light. The perforated plate against which the force of the presser acts is made
movable so that it can be placed in position or removed at pleasure this I at present
prefer to effect by placing it in slides or runners though it is obvious it may be
hinged or pivotted either top or bottom and secured by a catch or otherwise arranged
so that the side or end may be opened to allow of the expulsion of the contents of the
chamber when sufficiently strained or pressed. In this apparatus a large quantity of
vegetables fruit or other substance may be prepared or strained and when finished the
plate be removed or opened and the contents ejected into a dish or receiver without

page_text: any operation of lifting them out of the chamber other than by continuing the
downward movement of the presser. While the perforated plate is in position
the apparatus is equally applicable for mashing by squeezing the substances through
the perforations.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester.
Patent Agents.
Improvements in Apparatus for Mashing or Straining Vegetables,
Fruits, or other Substances.
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 chiefly to improvements upon an apparatus at present made
by the trading Company Follows and Bate Limited for mashing or straining
vegetables, fruits, or other substances known as the "Rapid."
The apparatus hitherto made has been provided with a couple of handles and has to
be held bodily in the hand of the operator when in use and further in such apparatus
no provision is made for discharging the contents, when not required to be mashed or
forced through the perforated sides, otherwise than through the top of the apparatus
necessitating its being turned over or the contents being lifted out.
Neither is any
provision, made for renewing the side plates of the chamber or receptacle without
re-making the whole machine or substituting a new one. For these reasons the
apparatus has not been practicable except in a very small size and for small quantities
and the chief object of the present invention is to provide a practical and handy
apparatus of a much larger size than hitherto, but without the objections above
stated.
It consists essentially in making the perforated side plate of the chamber movable
and fixing the chamber in a strong supporting frame from which it can be detached
for renewal.or repair.
Referring to the accompanying drawings which show an apparatus constructed
according to my present invention.
Fig. 1. is a longitudinal elevation in section.
Fig. 2. end elevation and
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page_text: A is a strong frame work constructed preferably of cast iron. In plan it is
rectangular or of other suitable shape and provided with three (or more) legs or
supports a. To this frame is attached the chamber or receptacle B, for the vegetable
substance to be mashed or strained. It is preferably made of the shape shown, which
is similar to those hitherto in use, and provided with a flange which rests upon the
frame A and is secured thereto by screws as shown. The side C of the chamber,
against which the force of the presser acts, alone requires to be perforated though the
one opposite it may be perforated if desired, but at present I prefer to make the
chamber B, with the exception of the side C, of cast iron leaving an opening at C for
the insertion of a perforated plate of tinned plate or other suitable material. This
perforated plate C is fitted to slide easily into its position so that it can be readily
removed leaving an opening or aperture in the side of the chamber through which
the contents may be discharged. It is provided with hooks or lugs c by which it can
be raised. It is obvious however that the perforated plate C may be hinged or
pivotted either top or bottom and secured by a catch or otherwise arranged so that the
side or end may be opened to allow of the discharge of the contents of the chamber
when sufficiently strained or pressed. The presser or plunger D is pivoted to the
lugs d or otherwise conveniently hinged to a fixed centre about which it can move
and is provided with a handle E attached to it as shown or in other convenient or
suitable way and preferably made of hollow metal or piping to render it light.
In this apparatus when the perforated plate C is retained in position a large
quantity of vegetables such as potatoes, parsnips, carrots, etcetera may be mashed
by placing them in the chamber B, and pressing or forcing them through
the perforations in plate C, or a large quantity of other vegetables, fruits, or other
substances may be prepared or strained and when finished the perforated plate C be
removed or opened and the contents discharged into a dish or receiver without any
operation of lifting them out of the chamber other than by continuing the downward
movement of the presser or plunger D.
The perforated plate can be at any time renewed and the chamber B removed
for renewal or repair.
It will also be understood that the smaller or hand machines referred to in the first
and second paragraphs of this specification may also be made in accordance with this
invention that is, having the perforated side which opposes the force of the presser
movable in the manner hereinbefore described and the vegetable receptacle fitted to
the supporting frame in such a way as to be easily renewed or repaired.
- 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.
1. An apparatus for mashing or straining vegetables, fruit, or other substances
such as herein described having a sliding or movable perforated plate through or
against which the substances may be pressed and which may be reinoved to allow of
the discharge of the contents of the receptacle or chamber by the further movement
of the presser or plunger.
2. In an apparatus for mashing or straining vegetables, fruit or other substances,
the combination with a chamber or receptacle such as B. (having one or more per-
forated side plates fixed or movable) and a pivoted presser or plunger D, of the
frame work A and supports a substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 10th day of April 1888
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester,
Patent Agents.