Improvements in the Manufacture of Sweetmeats and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Aug., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 16th May, 1891-Accepted, 8th Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Sweetmeats and the like.
THOMAS MOORE Manufacturing Confectioner 65 Edmund Street Dunchattan
Street Glasgow do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object the making of a machine to be worked by hand or
power for moulding goods usually made by the material being run or dropped either
into impressions produced by pressing models into the levelled surface of starch or
farinaceous substance, or on sheets of metal, paper or other substance; and is for
either material so viscous as to require force to produce the drop, or semi fluid
materials of such consistence to run or drop of themselves. Some of these are
stamped or printed afterwards.
In carrying out my invention I construct a frame of wood or metal having on its
top edge standards or brackets at intervals; also along the inside of the frame
small bearing wheels or pulleys are fixed at short distances from each other for
starch boards or trays to travel on. When making goods that are to be dropped
into farinaceous or other substance, the starch hoard or trays are placed on the
bearing wheels, & are drawn along by carriers which are fastened at regular
distances to a chain working under the boards & passing over two chain wheels,
one being fixed to the centre of a transverse driving shaft, & the other about the
centre of a transverse shaft near the end of the machine. The starch boards or
trays are carried under a starch hopper, having a sliding bottom & supported across
the machine by brackets; the starch boards or trays slide the bottom open by means
of a catch allowing the farinaceous material to fall into the boards and the bottom
is pulled to by springs when the starch tray has passed. A. board hangs by hinges
from the hopper & the bottom edge scrapes or squares off" the starch as the
starch trays pass along underneath. The bottom of this board is pulled towards
the hopper by springs which give it greater pressure on the starch tray or board.
The starch trays then pass under the stamps & the starch surface is filled with
impressions. This stamping arrangement consists of a transverse shaft passing
through bearings in standards, which support it at a proper height for the starch
trays or other receiving articles to pass under. Two discs with a number of holes
in them near their rims are fixed on this shaft one near each standard & inside the
frame. A number of pairs of parallel bars, preferably one of metal the other of
hard wood, hang across the machine from disc to disc, the turned ends of the metal
A bar with the stamps
bars fitting & working loosely in the holes in the discs.
attached is fixed to cach wood bar of each pair.
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The parallel bars are either fixed to each other by compression springs, or by
two bolts, each passing loosely through holes in the metal bar & a spiral spring, &
screwed into the wood bar which is kept suspended from the metal one by the heads
of the bolts, & are pressed apart by the spiral springs.
Small vertical & L shaped levers are pivoted in small metal supports on & near
each end of wood bars; the top ends of the levers when in the vertical position are
under the turned ends of the metal bars which must project beyond the discs, as the
wood bars are the length of the breadth of the inside of frame, & therefore longer
than the metal bars. The levers are pivoted at the end of the bottom arm of
shaped lever & a wire passes under this arm near the support & down each side
of the wood bars below the stamps. A cogwheel at the end of this transverse
shaft gears into a cogwheel on the driving shaft which is placed underneath this
one & near centre of machine. When this shaft revolves, it carries the discs with
the pairs of parallel bars with stamp bar round at the same speed as the starch

page_text: boards travel, & at a certain point in the revolution each pair hangs, by gravitation,
perpendicularly & thus enters & leaves the farinaceous or other substance making a
clean impression. When any row of stamps come down on the end of a board or
tray the compression springs will give or relax, & in the other instance the wires
will be pressed upwards against the bottom arm of the shaped levers, and throw
there top ends from under the ends of the top or metal bar of the parallel bars &
thus allow the bars to be pressed together, so that in either case no injury will be
done either to the stamps or starch board ends, & this set of bars will pass on
without interfering with the action of the next set. The spiral springs & weight of
bar with stamps press the bars apart, & the vertical L shaped levers are pulled back
by springs. The automatic lever motion is preferable to the springs.
The starch trays now pass under the dropper & the bent ends of two levers
which are under the dropper, raising them & commencing the dropping & when all
the impressions are filled the ends of the levers fall off the end of the starch board
or tray & stops the dropping. The dropper is preferably a V shaped metal vessel
with one or more rows of conical or cylindrical shaped nozzles, placed along the
bottom, & this vessel is placed in & supported by a V shaped transverse box, which
is fixed to & supported by brackets & which stand on the edge of each side of the
machine. Either box or vessel or both may be jacketed or the vessel may. be
supported from the box leaving a space between them for heat from a row of gas
jets placed under to pass between. A wood crossbar having same number of holes
in it as there are nozzles, is placed across the top of this V shaped vessel, each hole
being opposite a nozzle, a rod or plunger passes through each hole & down into its
corresponding nozzle. A perpendicular guide bar is fixed on each end of the
V shaped box, passing through steadying eyes in the crossbar. A vertical rod
having nuts screwed on each end passes up loosely through a hole at each end of
the crossbar, the bottom end loosely through a hole in the end of a rocking lever,
the ends resting on these levers by the nuts. These rocking levers are operated
by pins fixed in discs, or ratchet shaped wheels which are fixed on the driving
shaft, one near each end & outside the frame; there must be as many pins or
teeth in each disc or wheel, as there are rows of stamps & must correspond in
position.
One of these rocking levers works on each end of a transverse shaft or rod, bearing
in slot holes in the frame. Another transverse shaft in bearings under this shaft
has fixed on each end a vertical lever, with slot holes in them through which the
ends of the other shaft pass; so that this shaft with rocking levers is carried to &
fro by working either of those vertical levers. The vertical lever at the near side
of the machine has an horizontal lever, with its end bent down into the path of the
starch tray working on a stud which slides in a slot hole at the top end of the
vertical lever. Another horizontal lever which works parallel to the other & is
pivoted to a standard has its end carried forward of the other, also bent down into
the path of the starch trays; a pin is fixed to this last lever which projects under
the base of a vertical & pivoted shaped lever having the pivot through the eye
of the inverted C, so that when the horizontal lever with pin is raised it tips the
top end of shaped lever forward. The starch tray in its progress raises the bent
end of 1st lever in its path opposite top end of shaped lever & when the starch
tray passes under & raises the next lever, its pin throws the top of shaped lever
against the end of 1st raised lever pressing over the vertical levers & these carrying
the shaft that runs through the slot holes, together with the rocking levers towards
the discs or wheels engaging the ends of the rocking levers with the pins in the
dises or teeth in wheels which pins or teeth operate these rocking levers, which
raise the vertical rods they carrying the crossbar & rods or plungers, thus letting
the material in the vessel run through the nozzles. The crossbar & plungers fall
by their own weight & stop the dropping. When the impressions in the starch
are filled the end of 1st lever starch tray raised, falls off the board end & the
vertical lever is sprung back & carries the ends of rocking levers from the pins or
teeth in discs or wheels & the dropping ceases. As the board is carried further the

page_text: operated by another starch board or tray.
This automatic set on & shut off motion allows the machine to be worked by power.
Catches may be fixed to chain for this automatic motion.
There may be one or more of these dropping arrangements & all & each may be
worked by the pins or teeth of discs or wheels on the driving shaft, so that the
impressions may be partially filled with material from each, the materials being
either the same substance or composition, but different colours, or of different
substances or compositions.
For material or composition so viscous as to require to be forced out nuts are put
on the plungers so as to be at both sides of the crossbar, & a spiral spring is placed
on each plunger between the bottom nut & the crossbar. Nuts are placed at each
side of crossbar on the vertical rods & also at both sides of levers on vertical rods.
The machine is run in the opposite direction, the rocking levers pulling down the
plungers & the metal or other sheets would 1st pass under the dropper & then under
the stamps, as this class of goods usually require stamping, embossing or printing
after they are dropped. Another lever is placed at each side of the machine over
the rocking levers so as to be operated by the pins of discs or teeth of wheel after
the rocking levers, raising them & the rods or plungers. A board is hinged or
pivoted at one end into the frame, & under the stamper, which is raised & lowered
by one or more cams fixed on the rocking lever shaft, thus raising or lowering
metal or other receiving sheets that are placed on this board & which are carried
along by catches fixed to the chain, by an intermittent motion, produced by a ratchet
wheel placed on the chain wheel shaft at the end of the machine & a rod connecting
pawl with the end of a lever, having slot hole for altering length of movement,
operated by pins of disc or teeth of wheel on one side of the machine & loosing the
chain wheel on driving shaft, so that this shaft may work free of the wheel &
nice versa.
A wire is fixed to one of each of two pivoted bars under the dropper to cut off
the drops for some goods which require it. This wire is worked to & fro by a
projecting pin fixed on each vertical rod.
The nozzle may be at one side of the dropping vessel. It would then be preferable
to have only the two end rods or plungers or the crossbar, with a piece of metal or
kuife blade fixed from one to the other, & they may work outside the box so as to
cut off the drops.
When goods are dropped in farinaceous material, a contrivance is placed in front
of the machine by which the goods are removed from the starch. This consists of
a box without bottom placed on legs with a groove in each end large enough to
allow a starch board to pass easily in & out the ends of a shaft work in bearings
in this box end; this shaft has on it a rectangular frame or box about the length of
a starch board. This frame or box has a riddle diaphragm placed diagonally in it,
is open at top & bottom, & has longitudinal ledges inside of top & bottom sides
for starch trays to slide on. The bottom ledges are opposite the groves in the ends
of outside box. The sides of this frame or box on the shaft are hinged & have a
catch on.
It will be now understood that when a starch tray is passed in the grove
in end of outside box it passes into & is supported by the ledges in inside box, &
when the shaft is turned half round by a hand wheel fixed on its end, the goods &
starch fall out on to the riddle, & the side of box is opened by the catch engaging
a pin & the goods fall out on to a slanting plate. Another starch board is placed
in the other ledges which are now opposite the groves in end of box by turning the
shaft half round again the catches slip from the pins & the side is pulled to by
springs the starch falling through the riddle on to the board which was first put in,
& the catches of the other side are caught by the pins, & the goods fall out on to
the slanting plate. This board or tray with the starch in is now pushed out by
pushing another starch board or tray through the grove & on to the bearing wheels
which are same height & exactly opposite. The goods fall or are carried from
slanting plate between brushes to remove the adhering starch.

page_text: If the goods are to be washed & crystalized, as gelatine pastils, they fall from
the brushes into a sloping trough its lower portion which is of wire gauze is hinged
so that the bottom end can be raised or lowered. An endless sheet or belt with
.wire gauze V shaped buckets fixed to it pass round two rollers, bearing in a frame,
so as to carry the buckets to the bottom of a vessel containing water: the end of
the hinged part of trough is in the water & falls on a bucket top the goods rolling
into & filling the buckets, it is carried up a certain distance by the bucket when
its end falls off & on the top of next bucket filling it & at the same time rinsing the
goods. The goods fail from the buckets on the top end of a slanting sheet rolling
down (which removes the superfluous water) into the crystalizing sugar.
archimedean screw, projecting below its riddle wire cylinder, mixes the goods with
the sugar & carries them up, at the same time separating the sugar & depositing
them into any receptacle.
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The elevator & archimedian screw are operated by gearing with the cogwheel of
driving shaft.
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BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Sweetmeats and the like.
I, THOMAS MOORE, of 65 Edmund Street, Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, Engineer, 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 has for its object the making of a machine to be worked by hand
or power for moulding goods usually made by the material being run or dropped
either into impressions produced by pressing models into the levelled starch surface
or farinaceous substance, or on sheets of metal, paper or other substance, and may
be used either for material so viscous as to require force to produce the drop or
for semi-fluid materials which will run or drop of themselves. Some of these are
stamped or printed afterwards.
In carrying out my invention I construct a frame of wood or metal, having on its
top edge standards or brackets at intervals; and along the inside of the frame small
bearing wheels or pulleys are fixed at short distances from each other for starch
boards or trays to travel on. When making goods that are to be dropped into
farinaceous or other substance, the starch board or trays are placed on the bearing
wheels and are drawn along by carriers which are fastened at regular distances
to a chain working under the boards and passing under two chain wheels, one
being fixed to the centre of a transverse driving shaft and the other about the
centre of a transverse shaft near the end of the machine. The starch boards or
trays are carried under a starch hopper having a sliding bottom and supported
across the machine by brackets; the starch boards or trays slide the bottom open
by means of a catch, allowing the farinaceous material to fall into the boards,
and the bottom is pulled to by springs when the starch tray has passed. A
board hangs by hinges from the hopper, and the bottom edge scrapes or
squares off the starch as the starch trays pass along underneath.
bottom of the board is pulled towards the hopper by springs which give it
greater pressure on the starch tray or boards. The starch trays then pass under
the stamp, and the starch surface is filled with impressions. This stamping
arrangement consists of a transverse shaft passing through bearings in standards
which support it at a proper height for the starch trays or other receiving articles
to pass under.
Two discs with a number of holes in them near their rims are fixed
on this shaft, one near each standard and inside the frame. A number of pairs of
The

page_text: parallel bars, preferably one of metal, the other of hard wood, hang across the
machine from disc to disc, the turned ends of the metal bars fitting and working
loosely in the holes in the discs. A bar with the stamps attached is fixed to each
wood bar of each pair. The parallel bars are either fixed to each other by com-
pression springs or by two bolts, each passing loosely through holes in the metal
bar and a spiral spring, and screwed into the wood bar which is kept suspended
from the metal one by the heads of the bolts, and are pressed apart by the spiral
springs, or fall apart by gravity. Small vertical and L-shaped levers are pivoted
in small metal supports on and near each end of wood bars; the top ends of the
levers when in the vertical position are under the turned ends of the metal bars
which must project beyond the discs, as the wood bars are the length of the breadth
of the inside of frame and therefore longer than the metal bars. The levers are
pivoted at the end of the bottom arm of L-shaped lever, and a wire passes under
this arm near the support and down each side of the wood bars below the stamps.
A cog-wheel at the end of this transverse shaft gears into a cog-wheel on the
driving shaft which is placed underneath this one and near the centre of the
machine. When this shaft revolves, it carries the discs with the pair of parallel
bars with stamp bar round at the same speed as the starch boards travel, and at a
certain point in the revolution each pair hangs, by gravitation, vertically, and thus
enters and leaves the farinaceous or other substance, making a clean impression.
When any row of stamps come down on the end of a board or tray the compression
springs will give or relax, and in the other instance the wires will be pressed
upwards against the bottom arm of the L-shaped levers and throw their top ends
from under the ends of the top or metal. bar of the parallel bars, and thus allow
the bars to be pressed together so that in either case no injury will be done either
to the stamps or starch board ends, and this set of bars will pass on without
interfering with the action of the next set. The spiral springs and weight of bar
with stamps press the bars apart, and the vertical L-shaped levers are pulled back
by springs. The automatic lever motion is preferable to the springs. The starch
trays now pass under the dropper and the bent ends of two levers which are under
the dropper, raising them and commencing the dropping, and when all the
impressions are filled, the ends of the levers fall off the end of the starch board
or tray and stops the dropping. The dropper is preferably a V-shaped metal
vessel with one or more rows of conical or cylindrical shaped nozzles placed
along the bottom, and this vessel is placed in and supported by brackets which
stand on the edge of each side of the machine. Either box or vessel or both
may be jacketed, or the vessel may be supported from the box, leaving a space
between them for heat from a row of gas jets placed under to pass between.
A wood cross-bar having the same number of holes in it as there are nozzles is
placed across the top of this V-shaped vessel, each hole being opposite a nozzle ;
a rod or plunger passes through each hole and down into its corresponding
nozzle. A perpendicular guide-bar is fixed on each end of the V-shaped box,
passing through steadying eyes in the cross-bar. A vertical rod having nuts
screwed on each end passes up loosely through a hole at each end of the cross-
bar, the bottom end loosely through a hole in the end of a rocking-lever, the
ends resting on these levers by the nuts. These rocking-levers are operated by
mechanism, (which is described below with reference to the drawings,) for the
purpose of opening the nozzles only at the time the impressions in the starch
are underneath to allow the material to fall into the impressions. There may
be one or more of these dropping arrangements, and all or cach may be worked
by the mechanism from the driving shaft so that the impressions may be partially
filled with material from each, the materials being either the same substance or
composition, but different colours, or of different substances or compositions.
For material or composition so viscous as to require to be forced out, nuts
are put on the plungers so as to be at both sides of the cross-bar, and a spiral
spring is placed on each plunger between the bottom nut and the cross-bar. When
goods are dropped in farinaceous material a contrivance is placed in front of the

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machine by which the goods are removed from the starch. This consists of a box
without bottom placed on legs with a groove in each end large enough to allow a
starch board to pass easily in and out. The ends of a shaft work in bearings in this box,
and this shaft has on it a rectangular frame about the length of a starch board. This
frame has a riddle diaphragm placed diagonally in it, and is open at top and bottom,
and has longitudinal ledges inside of top and bottom sides for starch trays to slide
on. The bottom ledges are opposite the grooves in the ends of the outside box.
The sides of this frame or box on the shaft are hinged, and have a catch on.
It
will be now understood that when a starch tray is passed in the groove in the end
of outside box it passes into and is supported by the ledges in the inside box, and
when the shaft is turned half round by a hand wheel fixed on its end, the goods and
starch fall out into the riddle, and the side of the box is opened by the catch
engaging a pin, and the goods fall out into a slanting plate. Another starch
board is placed in the other ledges which are now opposite the grooves in end of
box. By turning the shaft half round again the catches slip from the pins, and
the side is pulled to by springs, the starch falling through the riddle into the board
which was first put in, and the catches of the other side are caught by the pins,
and the goods fall out into the slanting plate. This board or tray with the starch
in is now pushed out by pushing another starch board or tray through the groove
and into the bearing wheels, which are same height and exactly opposite. The
goods fall or are carried from the slanting plate between brushes to remove the
adhering starch. If the goods are to be washed and crystallized, as gelatine pastiles,
they fall from the brushes into a sloping trough its lower portion which is of
wire gauze is hinged so that the bottom end can be raised or lowered. An endless
sheet or belt with wire gauze V-shaped buckets fixed to it passes round two rollers,
bearing in a frame so as to carry the buckets to the bottom of a vessel containing
water. The end of the hinged part of the trough is in the water and falls on a
bucket top, the goods rolling into and filling the bucket; it is carried up a certain
distance by the bucket when its end falls off and on to the top of next bucket,
filling it, and at the same time rinsing the goods. The goods fall from the buckets
on to the top end of a slanting sheet rolling down (which removes the superfluous
water) into the crystalizing sugar. An archimedian screw projecting beyond its
riddle wire cylinder mixes the goods with the sugar and carries them along, at the
same time separating the sugar, and depositing them into any receptacle. The
elevator and archimedian screw are operated by gearing with the cog-wheel of
driving shaft.
In order that, my invention may be properly understood and readily carried into
effect I have hereunto appended three explanatory sheets of drawings, in the
several figures of which corresponding parts are marked with the same letters of
reference.
Figure 1 is a plan of the machine.
Figure 2 is an elevation partly in section.
Figure 3 is a detailed section of one end of the stamping arrangement.
Figure 3 is a side elevation showing the disc j and cams of the stamping
apparatus.
Figure 4 illustrates the method of actuating the lever which regulates the supply
of material for filling the moulds.
Figure 4 is a detached view of the mechanism by which the valves for supplying
the material are automatically opened and closed.
In the drawing, A A represent the frame-work of the machine. Along the
inside of the frame of the machine there are small bearing wheels or pulleys a a a
for the starch boards or trays to travel along. The starch board or tray is placed
on these wheels and is drawn along by carriers which are fixed to chains c c
driven by chain wheels d on the driving-shaft
The starch boards or trays are
carried under a starch hopper f, having a sliding bottom. As the starch boards or
trays pass under the starch hopper they engage a catch g, and slide the bottom
open, and thus the farinaceous substance is allowed to fall on the trays. After the

page_text: tray has passed, the bottom is pulled to by means of springs. A board is hinged
to the hopper, and the bottom scrapes, or
the starch as the tray
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passes along underneath. The starch tray then passes under the stamps, and the
starch surface receives the impressions. This stamping arrangement consists of a
transverse shaft i, Figures 1, 2, and 3, carrying a disc at each end with a number
of holes in them. A series of iron bars & pass across from disc to disc, the turned
ends of the bars fitting and working loosely in the holes in the discs.
Wooden
bars are hung from these iron bars by the bolts in, and these wooden bars carry
the stamps n.
Small L-shaped levers are pivoted near each end of the wood
bars. The top ends of these levers when the wood bars are hanging down are
under the ends of the metal bars and prevent the two bars coming together. A
bent wire p passes through a hole in the L-shaped levers and down each side of the
wood bars below the stamps. The shaft with discs and iron and wood bars with
stamps above described are driven from the shaft e by the toothed wheels
and r.
When the shaft i revolves, it carries the discs with metal and wood bars and dises
round at the same speed as the starch trays travel, and thus the stamps enter and
make an impression in the starch. A stationary catch, Figures 3 & 34 is bolted
to the frame of the machine, and a cam 2 is fixed on to one end of each metal bar.
This cam, when the bar to which it is attached is rising, engages with the catch
and turns the metal bar round and thus throws over the wooden bar with stamps.
A catch is provided on each side of the machine, and the cam is attached to
every second bar on one side of the machine, and to the others on the other side.
Should the stamps be coming down on the end of a tray, the wires will first coine
in contact with the wood of the tray, and the pressure will tilt the L-shaped
levers o from under the ends of the iron bars and allow the wood and iron bars to
be pressed together so that no injury will be done to the stamps.
From the stamps the starch trays pass on to the receptacles s containing the
material to be dropped into the impressions in the starch. These receptacles are
preferably V-shaped, having a row of conical or cylindrical shaped nozzles in the
bottom. A wooden cross bart having the same number of holes as there are nozzles
is placed across the top of each V-shaped receptacle, each hole being opposite
a nozzle. A rod or plunger u passes through each hole to the corresponding nozzle
and acts as a valve to prevent the liquid escaping. These nozzles are kept closed
except when the impressions in the starch tray are under the holes. The holes are
all opened together by raising the wooden cross bar t, and this has to be done
periodically as each row of impressions is brought under the nozzles. This is
accomplished by the following mechanism. This is shown more clearly at Figure 4*.
Outside the V-shaped receptacle on each side a vertical rod e passes loosely through
the cross bar t, and the lower ends of these rods pass loosely through holes in a
rocking lever at each side of the machine. Nuts v1 and 2, one above and one
below the cross-bar are screwed on to these rods. Near the bottom of the rods a
projection is formed, having a flattened bottom as shown on the drawings, and
periodically a flat-headed stud w on each side of the machine is brought under the
flattened projection on the corresponding rod. The stud w is raised and lowered by
means of a ratchet-wheel attached to the shaft e, acting on the end y' of the
rocking-lever y. There are as many teeth on the ratchet-wheel as there are rows
of stamps. There is a rocking lever and corresponding ratchet wheel on each side
of the machine. One of these rocking levers is pivoted on each end of a transverse
shaft or rod y which is supported in slot bearings in the frame. Another trans-
verse shaft under the first shaft has fixed on each end a vertical bar with slot
hole through which the end of the other shaft passes, so that the shaft with
rocking-levers can be carried to or fro by working either of the vertical bars y³.
The stud wis pivoted at y³ to the rocking-lever. The stud w is brought under the
projection of the rod by the end of the starch tray becoming engaged with a
catch on the other side of the machine. This catch is pivoted to a framework
consisting of a horizontal bar a running across the whole breadth of the machine,
and two upright bars, one on each side of the machine. The upright on each

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side of this framework is connected to a sliding bar having two pins c² and c³, one
on each side of the stud so that as the sliding bar is moved in one direction or the
other it turns the stud round on the pivot y³ and brings it under the projection of
The way that the starch tray actuates this motion will be understood by
reference to Figure 4. is the end of the starch tray, which as it moves along
takes up the catch z, and carries it along. The catch thus turns round the upright
bar on each side of the machine into the dotied position shown in Figure 4. The
upright bars draw the slide bar e along, which turns the stud to, on each side of
the machine, under the projection of the corresponding rod . As long as the
studs w remain under the corresponding projections the cross-bar t with the rods
or plungers will be lifted up every time a tooth in the ratchet wheel comes in
contact with the end y' of the rocking-lever y.. The nozzles will thus be opened
periodically to allow the liquid to drop out. The teeth in the ratchet wheel e are
spaced so as to open the nozzles just when the impressions in the starch are under-
neath. Whenever the tray has passed, the catch z falls off, and the upright bis
drawn back by a spring which throws the stud w from under the projection of
the rod, and the nozzles remain closed till the next starch tray comes along.
There may be one or more of these dropping arrangements, which can be actuated
by similar mechanism from the shaft e.
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For some class of sweetmeats the material is dropped on to trays. In such cases
I prefer to send the trays in the opposite direction. This I do by means of a
ratchet wheel on shaft e and pawlf. The pawl is actuated by the ratchet wheel a
and arm through the rods . In this case the chain pulley on the shaft e
is allowed to run loose.
When the material is dropped in farinaceous material a contrivance is placed in
front of the machine by which the sweetmeats are removed from the starch. This
is shown at B B, Figure 24, and in transverse section in Figure 5. It consists of
a box B B placed on legs with a groove C, Figure 24, in each end large enough to
allow a starch tray to pass easily in and out. The ends of a shaft D work in
bearings in this box, and this shaft has on it a rectangular frame E, Figure 5, about
the length of a starch tray. The frame has a riddle diaphragm F placed diagonally
in it, and is open top and bottom. It has longitudinal ledges G at the top and
bottom for the starch trays to slide on. The bottom ledges are opposite the
grooves in the ends of the outside box. The sides of this frame are provided with
hinged doors H, which are kept shut by the springs I, and the frame can be turned
round by the handle .J. The starch tray X, filled with starch and sweetmeats, is
passed in through the groove in the box, and supported by the ledges G in the
frame, an empty tray being in the upper ledges of the frame. The frame is then
turned half round by means of the handle J. The starch and sweetmeats fall out
of the tray on to the riddle, the starch falling through into the empty board,
while the sweetmeats are retained in the riddle. Another tray full of sweetmeats
is now pushed in at the bottom, pushing the tray already filled with starch out
on to the bearing wheels of the machine, shown in Figure 2. While the frame
is being again turned round, the door H is opened by the block K passing over
a bent metal piece L, and the sweetmeats which were in the first tray fall on
to a slanting plate M. The sweetmeats pass from the slanting plate M on to
the elevator O, Figure 6, by which they are carried up, and allowed to fall
down between two stationary brushes P P, the space between the ends of bristles
of the brushes forming a tortuous passage for the sweetmeats to fall through in
order to remove the adhering starch. If the sweetmeats are to be washed
and crystallized as gelatine pastiles, they fall from the brushes into a sloping
trough Q, the lower portion of which is hinged and made of wire gauze.
An endless sheet or belt with wire gauze V-shaped buckets R fixed to it,
passes round two rollers S S, the bottom roller being in a vessel of water, as
shown on the drawings. The end of the hinged part of the trough Qis
in the water, and falls on a bucket top, the sweetmeats falling into and filling the
bucket. As the bucket rises it carries the end of the trough up a certain distance,

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When the buckets
come over the top roller they are turned over by coming in contact with the rod N,
and throw out their contents on to a slanting sheet T, by which they are carried
into the trough U containing the crystallizing sugar. An Archimedian screw V,
with a wire cylinder, shown also in Figure 7, mixes the sweetmeats with the sugar,
and carries them along, and at the same time separates the sugar and deposits the
sweetmeats into any receptacle, the outside screw carrying the sugar riddled
through back to the trough U. The apparatus illustrated in Figure 6 may be
worked from the driving shaft of the machine shown in Figures 1 and 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In the process of manufacturing sweetmeats, the combination of the parts of
the apparatus consisting of, 1st, the machine proper as described and illustrated
in Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4; 2nd the tilter, Figures 2 and 5 for separating the
sweetmeats from the starch; and 3rd the finisher, for dusting, washing, and
crystallizing, described with reference to Figures 6 and 7.
2. In the process of manufacturing sweetmeats. the machine illustrated in
Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4, consisting of a starch hopper, stamping arrangement, and
dropper, all acting substantially as described.
3. In the process of manufacturing sweetments, the arrangement for stamping,
or making impressions, substantially as described with reference to Figures 1, 2,
and 3.
4. In the process of manufacturing sweetmeats, the use of a dropper actuated
automatically by the starch tray, substantially as described with reference to
Figures 1, 2, and 4.
5. In the process of manufacturing sweetmeats, the use of a tilter substantially
as described with reference to Figures 24 and 5, for the purpose of separating the
sweetmeats from the starch.
6. In the process of manufacturing sweetineats, the use of an arrangement for
dusting, washing, and crystallizing the sweetmeats, substantially as described with
reference to Figures 6 and 7.
Dated this 15th day of May 1801
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.