Improvements in Machinery for Rolling Dough and Cutting and Panning Biscuits.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 29th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 29th Jan., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Rolling Dough and Cutting and
Panning Biscuits.
We JOHN VICARS, THOMAS VICARS and JOHN VICARS the Younger of
56 Seel Street, Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, Engineers do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The objects are to facilitate the placing of pans on the carrying chains, to
improve the construction and general arrangement of driving gear so as to obtain
a more simple, compact, and reliable machine.
Under, our invention the pan chains are carried from end to end of the machine
instead of only part way as heretofore. Pans are lifted to receive biscuits by means
of a spring or springs and the apparatus for so doing lowered by the direct action of
a cam or equivalent mechanism. The cutters are driven direct from a rotating
shaft by means of connecting rods and the rollers and other parts are driven from
the said shaft by spur and variable cone gear contained within the framework of the
machine.
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Per pro J. T. KING,
W. B. Johnson,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Rolling Dough and Cutting and
Panning Biscuits.
We JOHN VICARS, THOMAS VICARS and JOHN VICARS the Younger, all of
56 Seel Street, Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, Engineers, 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—
The objects are to facilitate the placing of pans on the carrying chains, and to
improve the construction and general arrangement of driving gear so as to obtain a
more simple, compact and reliable machine.
Under our invention, the pan chains of our well known and patented machines
are carried from end to end of the machine instead of only part way as heretofore.
Pans are lifted to receive biscuits by means of a spring or springs, and the apparatus
for so doing lowered by the direct action of a cam or equivalent mechanism. The
cutters are driven direct from a rotating shaft by means of connecting rods and the
rollers and other parts are driven from the said shaft by spur and variable cone
gear contained within the framework of the machine.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a machine under our invention.
a is the framework. bare the chains led from end to end of the machine so that
the pans may be easily placed on and taken off. To lift the pans into guides which
convey the pans along close to the usual delivery tongue e, we make use of a lever d
pivotted at e. is the pan lifter secured to one end of the lever, g is a spring for
drawing down the tail of the lever and lifting the pans ' into the guides h, i is a
cam for acting on the tail of the lever so as to raise it and depress the lifter after
a pan has been lifted into the guides and before the following pan is in position to
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The said
The cutters are driven direct from the rotating shaft by connecting
rods m, whilst between the frames of the machine are disposed two sets of variable
cone gear which are connected to, the shaft by toothed gear o.
variable cone gears shown more particularly in Fig. 2 are connected to the dough
rollers p and other parts by the usual gear 7 so that the relative speeds between the
said parts may be varied, is the first motion or driving shaft.
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 :-
First. In machinery for rolling dough and cutting and panning biscuits carrying
the pan chains from end to end of the machine constructed substantially as set
forth.
Second. In machinery for rolling dough, and cutting and panning biscuits lifting
the pans into guides by means of a spring or springs and lowering them out of guides
by cam or like mechanism, for the purpose set forth.
Third. Variable motion driving gear for dough rolling and biscuit cutting and
panning machines combined and disposed substantially as set forth.
Per
pro
J. T. KING,
J. Johnson,
Agent.
Per pro J. T. KING,
J. Johnson,
Agent.