Improvements in Machines for the Manufacture of Lozenges.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Apr.. 1894
Complete Specification Left, 17th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Feb., 1805
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for the Manufacture of Lozenges.
We, WILLIAM GEORGE GRAHAM SHARP, and WILLIAM SHARP AND SONS
LIMITED, of Vincent Parade, Balsall Heath, in the City of Birmingham,
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in machines for the manufacture of
confectionery or other lozenges or like discs.
The object of our invention is to construct a machine that in the one cycle of
operations shall completely manufacture or produce the lozenges or discs from
plastic confection paste or other material, having any required design, letters or
words, embossed or stamped on the faces and periphery of the same.
In carrying our invention into effect when constructing a machine for the
manufacture of lozenges from plastic sugar or other confection paste, we make a
framing or supporting standard from cast iron or other material, suitably braced
and stiffened to give the required rigidity. Upon this framing or standard we
mount a cutting roll, having circular or other knife blades or cutters, set at the
necessary distance apart to give the required thickness of the lozenge. On one
end of the shaft or spindle of the cutting roll we fix a pulley for receiving motion
from the driving shaft mounted at one end of the frame or standard of the
machine. The driving shaft is revolved by belting or gearing from a line or
countershafting transmitting power from a steam or gas engine, or other motive
power machine.
With small machines we sometimes dispense with mechanical
power, and set the shaft in motion by manual power applied to a handle or other
appliance connected to, or in contact with, the driving shaft.
The plastic sugar or other confection paste is fed on to, or into contact with, the
cutting roll of our improved machine, in the form of sticks or bars. The feeding
mechanism consists preferably of au endless belt or band, which we set in motion
by means of pulleys driven from the driving shaft of the machine. We attach
suitable projecting pieces to the endless feeding band, in order to form grooves or
channels for the reception of the plastic sticks or rods placed transversely across
the band.
To obviate the necessity for placing each bar individually into the grooves of
the feeding band, we sometimes employ a hopper having a table inclined towards
the band. The plastic bars being then placed in the hopper, or at head of the
inclined table, roll down the same and drop into the grooves formed for their
reception on the feeding band.
From the feeding band the plastic bars are discharged on to the cutting roll,
and their peripheries are brought into contact with an embossing roll, arranged
above the cutting roll, and driven or revolved in the contrary direction. The
rotation of the cutting roll and the embossing roll in opposite directions, causes the
plastic bar to be cut into lozenges of the required thickness, such lozenges
receiving on their periphery the design or configuration formed upon the
embossing roll. The lozenges are then carried round by the cutting roll until
meeting with the ends of extracting or stripping pieces secured to the receiving
tables arranged at the discharging end of the machine. On meeting with the
extracting or stripping pieces the lozenges are caused to roll on to the receiving
table and down the grooves formed between thin metallic bars arranged upon the

page_text: receiving tables, such tables being inclined to produce the rolling of the lozenges.
Near to the end of the inclined receiving tables the motion of the lozenge is arrested
by a small shaft having projecting strips attached thereto, or by means of a
rising and falling gate or trap. When thus brought to rest a letter, word or words,
or design. formed upon each side of the thin metallic bars hereinbefore described, is
impressed upon each side or flat face of the lozenge. The impression is effected
preferably by arranging the metallic bars with their lower or outer ends free, and
forcing them on to the lozenge faces as required by means of double tappets or
cams operated by suitable link bars and connecting mechanism from the driving
shaft of the machine. After receiving the impression on their flat faces, the
lozenges are discharged into a suitable receptacle by the opening of the gate or
trap at the end of the receiving table, or by the revolution of the shaft having the
projecting strips attached thereto; for the purpose of raising and discharging the
completed lozenges.
To clean the knives or cutters of the cutting roll, and keep them free from
small particles of adhering paste, we arrange rolls of felt or similar material,
or circular brushes, which revolve preferably by frictional contact with the
cutting roll, and thus keep the knives or cutters constantly clean and free from
obstruction.
We do not limit the application of our invention to any one type of lozenge
making machine, but modify the details and arrangement of the same for the
production of lozenges or like discs from varying substances, without departing
from the essential features of our invention.
Dated this 16th day of April 1894.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.
We, WILLIAM GEORGE GRAHAM SHARP, and WILLIAM SHARP AND SONS,
LIMITED, of Vincent Parade, Balsall Heath, in the City of Birmingham,
Manufacturers, 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 for the manufacture of
confectionery or other lozenges or like discs.
The object of our invention is to construct a machine that in the one cycle'
of operations shall completely manufacture or produce the lozenges or discs from
plastic confection paste or other material, with any required design, letters or
words, embossed or stamped on the faces and periphery of the same.
In the two accompanying sheets of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter
referred to-
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 a plan illustrating our improved
machine.
Figure 3 is a part sectional elevation of the machine, and Figure 4 a plan
illustrating the cutting roll with other parts adjacent thereto.
Figures 5 and 6 are part plans of the machine, representing the face embossing
For stamping mechanism.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
In carrying our invention into effect when constructing a machine for the
manufacture of lozenges from plastic sugar or other confection paste, we make a
framing or supporting standard from cast iron or other material, suitably braced

page_text: and stiffened to give the required rigidity. Upon this framing or standard we
mount a cutting roll A having circular or other knife blades or cutters B
(Figures 3 and 4) set at the necessary distance apart to give the required thickness
of the lozenge. On one end of the shaft or spindle of the cutting roll we fix a
pulley C for receiving motion from the driving shaft mounted at the lower end
of the frame or standard of the machine. The driving shaft is revolved by
belting or gearing from a line of countershafting transmitting power from a steam
or gas engine, or other motive power machine. With small machines we some-
times dispense with mechanical power, and set the shaft in motion by manual
power applied to a handle or other appliance connected to or in contact with the
driving shaft.
The plastic sugar or other confection paste is fed on to the cutting roll A of our
improved machine, in the form of sticks or bars. The feeding mechanism consists
preferably of an endless belt or band D Figure 3, which we set in motion by means
of a belt E Figure 1 from the driving shaft of the machine. We attach suitable
projecting pieces such as D¹ to the endless feeding band, in order to form grooves
or channels for the reception of the plastic sticks or rods E placed transversely
across the band.
To obviate the necessity for placing each bar individually into the grooves of
the feeding band, we sometimes employ a hopper having a table inclined towards
the band. The plastic bars being then placed in the hopper, or at the head of the
inclined table, roll down the same and drop into the grooves formed for their
reception on the feeding band.
From the feeding band the plastic bars are discharged on to the cutting roll A
and their peripheries are brought into contact with an embossing roll, and driven
or revolved in the contrary direction. The rotation of the cutting roll and the
embossing roll in opposite directions causes the plastic bar to be cut into lozenges
of the required thickness, such lozenges receiving on their periphery the design or
configuration formed upon the embossing roll. The lozenges are then carried
round by the cutting roll until meeting with the ends of extracting or stripping
pieces GG Figure 3 secured to the receiving tables H H' arranged at the
discharging end of the machine. On meeting with the extracting or stripping
pieces the lozenges are caused to roll on to the receiving table and down the
grooves formed between thin metallic bars J J arranged upon the receiving tables,
such tables being inclined to produce the rolling of the lozenges. The arrange-
ments of the bars J is shown to a large scale at Figure 5. Near to the end of the
inclined receiving tables the motion of the lozenge is arrested by a small shaft K K¹
having projecting strips L Figure 5 attached thereto, or by means of a rising and
falling gate or trap. When thus brought to rest a letter, word or words, or design,
formed upon each side of the thin metallic bars hereinbefore described, is impressed
upon each side or flat face of the lozenge. The impression is effected preferably
by arranging the metallic bars with their lower or outer ends free, and forcing
them on to the lozenge faces as required by means of double tappets or cams M
Figures 5 & 6 operated by the link bara or levers N connected with the bar O
which is reciprocated by the revolving cam P. After receiving the impression on
their flat faces, the lozenges are discharged into a suitable receptacle by the
opening of the gate or trap at the end of the receiving table, or by the revolution
of the shaft having the projecting strips L attached thereto, for the purpose of
raising and discharging the completed lozenges. To clean the knives or cutters
of the cutting roll, and keep them free from small particles of adhering paste, we
arrange rolls such as Q and R Figures 3 and 4 of felt or similar material, or
circular brushes, which revolve preferably by frictional contact with the cutting
roll and thus keep the knives or cutters constantly clean and free from
obstruction.
We do not limit the application of our machine to the manufacture of lozenges
from plastic sugar or other confection, but employ it for the productions of lozenges
or like discs from varying substances.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :
An improved machine for the manufacture of confectionery or other lozenges or
like discs, constructed and arranged as hereinbefore described and as illustrated in
'the accompanying drawings.
Dand this 11
1004
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.