Improvements in Machinery for the Manufacture of Biscuits or Cakes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 1st Jan., 1894-Accepted, 24th Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for the Manufacture of Biscuits
or Cakes.
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 to be as follows:
1-
The object is to provide a machine in which both biscuits or cakes, commonly
called drop biscuits, and biscuits or cakes known as rout biscuits may be made.
The former biscuits or cakes are made by intermittent projection of the materials,
and the latter by a continuous flow of the desired materials.
Our invention consists essentially in producing a drop biscuit machine with two
sets of driving gear, one acting intermittently the other continuously and with
appliances for putting either gear in operation at will, and in combining therewith
a dough box so suspended on an axis that it may be firmly secured in working
position whilst being capable of being turned into position for attachment of the
requisite dies and connections for the production of either form of biscuit or cake.
Further improvements consists in providing the above apparatus with any usual
or suitable appliances as follows:-
(a) Automatic disconnecting gear. (6) Automatically acting fingers for holding
and releasing paper on which drop biscuits are deposited, and (c) sliding connections
for securing die plates in position on the dough box.
Per pro J. T. KING,
J. Johnson,
Agent.
Improvements in Machinery for the Manufacture of Biscuits
or Cakes.
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 object is to provide a machine in which both biscuits or cakes commonly
called drop biscuits, and biscuits or cakes known as rout biscuits, may be made.
The former biscuits or cakes are made by intermittent projection of the materials
and the latter by a continuous flow of the desired materials.
Our invention consists essentially in producing a drop biscuit machine with two
sets of driving gear, one acting intermittently the other continuously, and with
appliances for putting either gear in operation at will, and in combining therewith
a dough box so suspended on an axis that it may be firmly secured in working
position whilst being capable of being turned into position for attachment of the
requisite dies and connections for the production of either form of biscuit or cake.

page_text: Further improvements consist in providing the above apparatus with any usual
or suitable appliances as follows :—
(a) Automatic disconnecting gear. (b) Automatically acting fingers for holding
and releasing paper on which drop biscuits are deposited, and (c) sliding connections
for securing die plates in position on the dough box.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section and Fig. 2 an end view of machinery constructed
in accordance with our invention. a is the frame of the machine. bis the usual
dough box with foundation plate and discharge way c. e usual die carrier free to
slide about the discharge way c. f is the usual reciprocating plunger moved
intermittently towards the lower end of the box 6 by ratchet gear g. h toothed
gear for giving continuous downward motion to the said plunger. iis toothed gear
for lifting the plunger to the top of the dough box. ; power pulley for giving
motion to the gear h and i, the final wheels h¹ and of which work loosely on the
plunger operating shaft k. k wheel on the shaft k for moving the parts into any
desired position by hand to facilitate repairs and adjustment. I clutch for binding
either of the wheels ¹, ¹ to the shaft k or for leaving them free therefrom. The
ratchet wheel g is operated from the power-shaft m by an adjustable crank pin
connecting rod and paul in the usual way. m² driving pulley. The said wheel
is loose on the shaft k and is connected thereto or freed therefrom by a clutch n or
other suitable disengaging gear. The plunger fis raised and lowered by means of
screwed rods o and nuts o operated by mitre wheels p on the shaft k. The ends of
the rods o are fitted with strikers o' which act on lever arms l', n¹ so as to disengage
either of the clutches or n which may be in operation when the plunger reaches
the bottom of its stroke. When the ratchet gear is in operation the plunger
descends intermittently and drop biscuits are formed. When the toothed gear his
in operation the plunger descends with a continuous motion and rout or like biscuits
are formed.
Either gear is put into operation and reversed by usual belt-driving: appliances
acting on one of the pulleys ; or m³, or by causing the clutch I to act directly on
the shaft k by means of a lever and connections . The clutch mechanism is of
any usual construction.
The dough box b is carried on trunnion b¹ in the frame a so that it may be turned
into a horizontal position to allow of ready attachment and removal of foundation
plates and dies. q worm and wheel gear for giving motion to the dough box.
stop and detent for securing the said box in position. The die e¹ is made with
plates which have parallel edges and taper from front to rear in their thickness.
The said plates are free to slide into correspondingly tapering guides on the
carrier e so as to enable a tight fit through which dough cannot exude to be
obtained. set bolts for forcing the dies out of the guides. In this way dies can
be readily changed and accurately secured in position. a represent the usual pan
moving chains. t the table on which the pans rest. u is a pan. v are fingers
pivoted at w for holding paper on the pan. spring for holding the fingers down.
y lever and rod leading from the finger-shaft w, to a cam z on the main driving
shaft.
The fingers hold down the paper whilst the die carrier is retiring and are lifted
to allow the pans to be moved forward. The driving gear is of any usual kind
suitably arranged.
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. The combination of a drop biscuit machine with intermittent and
continuous gear actuated and operating substantially as and for the purpose set

page_text: Second. Constructing drop biscuit machinery with an axially suspended dough
box substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Third. The combination of a drop biscuit machine having intermittent and
continuous gear and automatic disengaging gear substantially as set forth.
Fourth. The combination of a drop biscuit machine with automatically acting
fingers substantially as set forth.
Fifth. Constructing biscuit making machines with sliding die connections
substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Sixth. Machinery for the manufacture of biscuits substantially as set forth.
Dated the 30th day of December 1803
Per pro J. T. KING,
W. B. Johnson,
Agent.