Improvements in Machines for Filling Sausages and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 10th May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 9th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 6th Apr., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Filling Sausages and the like.
I, JOSEPH GREEN of Green Street Darwen in the County of Lancaster Pork
Butcher, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in machines to be employed in the
manufacture of sausages and black puddings, the object being to fill the skins
with both the solid and liquid substances at one and the same time and in any
predetermined proportions and when the machine is stopped the supply of solids,
and liquids are both cut off, there is consequently no waste or loss of the
ingredients.
According to this invention I employ two cylinders one for the solid substances
At one end of the
such as groats and fat the other for the liquid such as blood.
cylinder is an outlet pipe having a midfeather in it and communicating with this
is a pipe connected to the outlet of the cylinder containing the blood. Each
cylinder is provided with a piston and rack operated as hereinafter described for
forcing the contents of the cylinder out by way of the outlet pipe, on the end of
which the skin to be filled is placed.
A handle or wheel is employed for driving the machine, this drives a wheel
gearing with and driving a second wheel on the axis of which is a small wheel
operating the rack on the piston rod of the cylinder containing the solid
substances.
On the axis of the second wheel is a change wheel gearing with and driving a
wheel on the axis of which is a wheel gearing the rack on the piston rod of the
cylinder containing the liquids.
When the machine is in operation the contents of the two cylinders are discharged
into the skin in an uniform relative proportion, and by employing a change wheel
with a different number of teeth the proportion of the ingredients can be varied.
A tap or valve is placed in the pipe connecting the liquid cylinder with the main
outlet pipe.
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Improvements in Machines for Filling Sausages and the like.
I, JOSEPH GREEN, of Green Street, Darwen, in the County of Lancaster Pork
Butcher, 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 improvements in machines to be employed in the
manufacture of sausages and black puddings, the object being to fill the skins
with both the solid and liquid substances at one and the same time and in any

page_text: predetermined proportions, and when the machine is stopped, the supply of solids
and liquids are both cut off; there is consequently no waste or loss of the
ingredients.
According to this invention, I employ two cylinders, one for the solid substances
such as groats and fat, the other for the liquid, such as blood. At one end of the
cylinder is an outlet pipe having a midfeather in it, and communicating with this
is a pipe connected to the outlet of the cylinder containing the blood. Each
cylinder is provided with a piston and rack operated as hereinafter described for
forcing the contents of the cylinder out by way of the outlet pipe, on the end of
which the skin to be filled is placed.
Such being the nature and object of my said invention, the following is a
complete description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,
in which-
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the improved machine for purpose aforesaid.
Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same machine.
According to this invention, I employ two cylinders 1. 2, one cylinder 1 is for
the solid substances, such as groats and fat, the other cylinder 2 is for the liquid
such as blood. At one end of the cylinder 1 is an outlet pipe 3, having a mid-
feather in it, and communicating with this is a pipe 4 connected to the outlet at
the bottom of the cylinder 2 containing the blood. Each cylinder 1. 2 is provided
with a piston and rack, 5, operated as hereinafter described for forcing the
contents of the cylinders 1. 2 by way of the outlet pipe 3, on the end of which
the skin to be filled is placed. A handle or wheel 6 is employed for driving the
machine, and on the shaft 7 of the wheel 6 is a toothed wheel 8, gearing with the
rack 5 of the piston in the horizontal cylinder 1, containing the solids. On
the shaft 6 is also a wheel 9, gearing with and driving the wheel 10 on the shaft of
which is the change wheel 11, driving the wheel 12, on the shaft 13 of which is
the wheel 14 gearing with the rack 5 of the piston in the vertical cylinder 2
containing the liquid such as blood. The pipe 4 from the bottom of the cylinder 2
communicates with the outlet pipe 3 which has a midfeather in it, so that the solids
pass down one side of the midfeather, and the liquids down the other side, and
the two are not mixed together until about to enter the skin. A tap or valve 16 is
placed in the pipe 4 between the cylinder 2 and the outlet pipe 3.
When the machine is in operation, the contents of the two cylinders 1. 2 are
discharged by way of the outlet pipe 3 into the skins to be filled, in an uniform
relative proportion, and by removing the change wheel 11 and substituting one
having a different number of teeth, the relative proportions of the solid and liquid
ingredients can be varied.
The cylinder containing the liquid is placed at a lower level than the one
containing solids, so that when the machine is not in operation, no liquid will pass
out of the outlet pipe 3.
It will be obvious that the gear for driving the two pistons can be varied, but
so long as a change wheel such as 11 is employed, the relative proportions of the
solid and liquid, or semi-liquid substances can be varied.
The improved machine is principally desigued for the manufacture of black
puddings, but is also valuable for the manufacture of sausages and the like where
solid and liquid or semi-liquid substances are to be amalgamated.
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 I
claim is:-
(1.) The general construction, arrangement, and combination of parts constituting
the improved machine for filling sausages, black puddings, and the like, as and for
the purpose herein described, and substantially as illustrated by the annexed
drawings.
(2.) The cylinders 1. 2, each having pistons and racks 5 operated by gear wheels

page_text: from the first driver, the cylinder 2 being connected to the outlet of the cylinder 1,
as and for the purpose herein described and as illustrated by the annexed
drawings.
Dated this 8th day of February 1895.
BRIERLEY & HOWARD,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax, Agents for the Applicant.