Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Slicing or Dividing Bread and other Matters, and for Applying Butter or like Matters thereto.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Aug., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 28th May, 1896-Accepted, 4th July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Slicing or Dividing
Bread and other Matters, and for Applying Butter or like
Matters thereto.
1 ANDREW WEBSTER KIDDIE, of Tower Buildings, Leicester Street Southport
in the County of Lancaster, late of No. 36 Virginia Street in the same place,
Joiner and Builder do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to certain improvements in machinery of the kind
included in the Specification of Letters Patent No. 14092 dated the 8th day of
September 1890, the object of the present improvements being to prevent the
misspreading or smearing of the butter or the like and the better slicing of the
bread and meat.
In carrying out these improvements I employ a somewhat Ṭ shaped sliding
adjustable gauge and support for the edge of the loaf of bread, or the like, in
cutting, said gauge being adapted to slide in a recess formed in the plate (being
that lettered in the said former specification) standing up from the base of the
machine and through an opening in which the butter rollers protrude and come in
contact with the bread.
This gauge is set to the size of loaf being cut and forms a support and retaining
means for the upper edge of crust thereof. The gauge is held in fixed position by
means of a plate and screw stem sliding in a groove in the lower leg of the T and
a screw winged nut applied from the back to the screw stem.
The machine when employed for slicing meat I now provide with a removable
filling piece or plate secured by screw stems passing through the said plate (f)
and held thereto by nuts and this filling plate serves to keep the surface of the meat
next the machine in better position and to support it until it is cut.
The butter rollers gauge to determine the height of surface to be spread I
prefer now to form as a back plate resting against the rolls and with a mid feather
passing between said rolls, and the bottom edge to which the butter is allowed to
How out under pressure, being shaped to the rolls.
To facilitate better spreading of the butter by the rollers I apply a plate of
peculiar form, in front of these rolls and of such cross section that its one edge
rests against the roll, rotating in a direction with the direction of travel of carrying
frame and along the face of the bread, and thereby the butter is removed from the
said roll and transferred to the other roll rotating in the reverse direction and
spread on the bread thereby, in. conjunction with the spreading curved surface of
this butter gauge.
The said plate (f) I recess nearly to the base, from the second roller, or roller
from which the spreading plate removes the butter as described, so that the
buttered surface of the bread to be sliced shall not contact therewith, the
T piece forming its support in conjunction with the part of the said plate not
recessed at the base.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Slicing or Dividing
Bread and other Matters, and for Applying Butter or
Matters thereto.
like
I ANDREW WEBSTER KIDDIE, of Tower Buildings, Leicester Street,
Southport, in the County of Lancaster, late of No. 36 Virginia Street in the same
place, Joiner and Builder 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 certain improvements in machinery of the kind
included in the Specification of Letters Patent No. 14092, dated the 8th day of
September 1890, the object of the present improvements being to prevent the mis-
spreading or smearing of the butter or the like, and the better slicing of the
bread and meat; to be hereinafter fully described, reference being had to the
accompanying drawings.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 shows by front view a portion of the apparatus with my present
improvements applied.
Fig. 2 shows a sectional plan view of the same.
Fig. 3 shows a detail.
Figs. 4 and 5 show by front view and edge view respectively a filling piece or
plate to be described.
In carrying out these improvements I employ a somewhat T-shaped sliding
adjustable gange and support A for the edge of the loaf of bread, or the like, in
cutting, said gauge being adapted to slide in a recess A' formed in the plate f
(being that lettered f in the said former specification) standing up from the base
of the machine, and through an opening f in which the butter rollers d, di
protrude and come in contact with the bread. c', c¹ are the sides of the
butter box.
This gauge A is set to the size of loaf being cut, and forms a support and
retaining means for the upper edge of crust thereof. The gauge is held in fixed
position by means of a plate A2 and screw stem A³ sliding in a groove A³ in the
lower leg of the T and a screw winged nut A applied from the back to the screw
stem A
The machine, when employed for slicing meat, I now provide with a removable
filling piece or plate B secured by screw stems B¹ passing through the said
plate () and held thereto by nuts B2, and this filling plate serves to keep the
surface of the meat next the machine in better position, and to support it until it
is cut.
The butter rollers gauge to determine the height of surface to be spread I prefer
now to form as a back plate C resting against the rolls d d', and with a mid
feather passing between said rolls, and the bottom edge to which the butter is
allowed to flow out under pressure, being shaped to the rolls.
To facilitate better spreading of the butter by the rollers I apply a plate D of
peculiar form in front of these rolls, and of such cross section that its one edge D¹
rests against the roll d', rotating in a direction with the direction of travel of
carrying frame and along the face of the bread, and thereby the butter is removed
from the said roll d' and transferred to the other roll d rotating in the reverse
direction and spread on the bread thereby, in conjunction with the spreading
curved surface D2 of this butter gauge.

page_text: The said plate (f) I recess nearly to the base, from the second roller, or roller
from which the spreading plate removes the butter as described, so that the
buttered surface of the bread to be sliced shall not contact therewith, the T piece
forming its support in conjunction with the part of the said plate not recessed at
the base.
gear
E is a gear wheel to give an easier travel to the moving parts. This, wheel
engages with the rack marked at in the said former specification.
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:-
In means or apparatus for slicing or dividing bread and other matters and for
applying butter or like matters.
1. The construction or arrangement and use of the parts described and illustrated
with reference to Figs. 1, 2 and 3 for regulating the amount or thickness of butter
or the matters spread on the bread or such like and facilitating the production of
cut and buttered bread, or the like.
2. The construction or arrangement of parts described and shown with reference
to Figs. 1 and 2 for facilitating the better spreading of the butter or the like on to
buttering rollers.
3. The improved construction or arrangement of gear wheel work for driving
the buttering rollers.
4. The construction or arrangement and use of the filling piece or plate described
and shown with reference to Figs. 4 and 5 in combination with the cutting parts
for facilitating the cutting of meat and the like.
5. The general construction and arrangements of the parts, substantially as and
for the purpose set forth.
Dated the 28th day of May 1896.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56 Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.