Improved Apparatus for Subdividing and Imprinting Butter.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 29th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 30th Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Subdividing and Imprinting Butter.
I ROBERT LOUDON of Balmain near Sydney in the Colony of New South
Wales, Grocer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has been specially devised in order to produce a cheap handy and
effective apparatus by which butter may be subdivided into pats and by which at
the same time if desirable or necessary each pat may have imparted or imprinted
on it a brand or other device.
This improved apparatus for subdividing and imprinting butter consists of a
bottom or table having slides or guides for a second or false bottom made up of
sections or sectional pieces of the shape or configuration and of the size of the
butter pats into which it is desired to subdivide the butter. Above this false bottom
is a plane of crossed wires or fine knives which wires or knives are in juxta
position with the sectional divisions of the false bottom and lie in recesses formed.
by rounding off the corners of the sectional pieces. These wires or knives are
held in a frame having neither top or bottom and which when the apparatus is
ready for use rests upon the table and takes neatly and completely around the false
bottom. Each sectional piece of the false bottom has carved or cut therein or
otherwise fixed in or on its upper face a brand or other device. The apparatus is
ready for use when the frame of the wires or knives is on the bottom or table
taking around the false sectional bottom. The frame on the table over the false
bottom is filled with the butter up to the desired height regulated by the required
height of the pat which together with size of the sectional pieces of the bottom
regulates the weight and the butter therein is then smoothed or packed level by a
pat or cover fitting neatly within the frame. Now on a gentle lift of the frame the
wires or knives cut through the butter and there is resting each on its own sectional
piece of the false bottom a pat of butter bearing a brand or impression on its now
lower face. The sectional pieces with their load are drawn along their slides or
guides and may then be picked up separately and independently each with its
own pat which being reversed into a wrapper or receptacle and the sectional piece
of the false bottom being removed reveals its brand imprint or impression on its
how top.
Dated this Eighth day of February One thousand eight hundred and ninety-

page_text: Improved Apparatus for Subdividing and Imprinting Butter.
ROBERT LOUDON of Balmain near Sydney in the Colony of New South
Wales, Grocer 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 has been specially devised in order to produce a cheap handy
and effective apparatus by which butter from any reserve or form of storage may be
subdivided into pats and by which at the same time if desirable or necessary each
pat may have imparted to it or imprinted on it a brand or other (levice.
This improved apparatus for sub-dividing and imprinting butter consists of a bottom
or table having slides or guides for a second or false bottom made up of sections or
sectional pieces of the shape or configuration and of the size of the butter pats into
which it is desired to subdivide the butter. Above this false bottom is a plane of
crossed wires or fine knives which wires or knives are in juxtaposition with the
sectional divisions of the false bottom and lie in recesses formed by rounding off
the corners of the sectional pieces. These wires or knives are held in a frame
which has neither top or bottom and when the apparatus is ready for use rests upon
the table and takes neatly and completely around the false bottom.
The frame on the table over the false bottom is filled with butter up to the
desired height (regulated by the required height of the pat) which together with
size of the sectional pieces of the bottom regulates the weight and the butter
therein is then smoothed or packed level by a pat or cover fitting neatly within
the frame. Now on a gentle lift of the frame the wires or knives cut through the
butter and there is resting each on its own sectional piece of the false bottom a pat
of butter bearing a brand or impression on its lower face. The sectional pieces
with their load are drawn along their slides or guides and may then be picked up
separately and independently each with its own pat which being reversed into a
wrapper or receptacle and the sectional piece of the false bottom being removed
reveals its brand imprint or impression.
The bottom or table of this apparatus and the frame carrying the wires may be
made of suitable wood or other material and so may also the sectional pieces of the
false butt or "pat pieces" and the pat or cover but I prefer that such pat pieces
and cover shall be made of glazed crockery earthenware or pottery ware not only
as being cheap and easily manufactured with various brands but as being of such a
nature or surface that the butter will not cling or stick thereto.
But in order that this invention may be clearly understood reference will now be
made to the drawings herewith in which
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved apparatus for sub-dividing butter
and as with the butter packed therein ready for subdivision (though the butter is
not indicated).
Figure 2 is a perspective and Figure 3 a plan of the subdividing frame.
Figure 4 is a plan of the bottom or table with the frame removed and one part
of the false sectional bottoni moved upon its slides while Figure 5 is an enlarged
perspective of bottom and false bottom.
On a flat or table A are fixed the slide pieces or guides A.' preferably in the form
of dove tails. On these guides A' are endwise slid a series of glazed potterware or
porcelain pat pieces B having grooves B' to correspond with guides A¹. These
pat pieces fit one up against the other have rounded top corners and bear upon
their faces more or less ornamental prints as a trade mark &c. or simply as shown
in the drawing a series of flutings or whatever else may be desire 1 to imprint on the
butter pats.
The pat pieces when all in place (one half in Figure 4 is shown thus)
are completely surrounded by frame C which takes over them and rests upon table A

page_text: with its cross wires C' resting in the spaces formed by reason of the rounded corners
at the junctions of the pat pieces B. When thus made ready the butter from a keg
box or other reserve is placed within the frame C with an ordinary patter and the
whole smoothed down or bevelled by means of the glazed pottery ware or porcelain
pat or cover D which just fits within the frame C and preferably indicates by its upper
edge being flush with the top of frame C the proper packing of the butter within
said frame. Now by means of handles or finger spaces C³ the frame C is lifted
from the table or bottom A and in such movement its wires C' cut through the
butter and ultimately lift the cover D leaving the butter in well defined pats on
the pat pieces B. Being pushed from one end the pat pieces B travel along on
guides A' (as shown in Figure 4) and each pat piece B with the pat of butter
thereon may be lifted independently and reversed into a platter holder or wrapper.
The pat pieces being then removed the imprint is seen on the top of the resultant
pats or subdivisions of the butter.
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 :-
First. Improved apparatus for subdividing and imprinting butter consisting
essentially of (a) a bottom or table adapted to receive or hold thereon or therein a
false bottom. (b) a removable false bottom made up of sections and (c) a frame
adapted to take on the bottom around said false sectional bottom and having
cutting wires corresponding in position with the sectional divisions of the false
bottom substantially as herein described.
Second. In apparatus such as is above referred to constructing the false bottom
of sectional pieces adapted to slide in guides provided on the bottom or table,
substantially as herein described.
Third. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting apparatus for
subdividing and imprinting butter, substantially as herein described and illustrated
by the drawings.
Dated this 29th day of October 1895.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.