Improvements in and Apparatus for Branding or Marking Cheeses.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 8th July, 1895-Accepted. 10th Aug., 1895
Improvements in and Apparatus for Branding or Marking Cheeses.
We WILLIAM EDWARD BUDGETT, JAMES HERBERT BUDGETT and CHARLES
THEODORE BUDGETT, all of the Firm of H. H. and S. Budgett. and Company
of Nelson Street in the City of Bristol Merchants do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to provide means whereby cheeses can be
marked, or branded, so as to indicate their quality and so preferably that the
markings can be identified on portions of the cheese only as well as upon the
whole cheese so as to meet the requirements of retail as well as of wholesale dealers
in cheeses.
According to this invention the cheese is marked over its surface, or over any
desired portion, or portions, thereof, with marks, preferably so repeated that such
portions of the cheese as are usually sold in retail trade will still bear sufficient
of the marking to enable each such portion to be identified as having been properly
marked with the mark indicating the kind, or quality. The marking is done by
means of a brand, or marking device, which is of a material, or is covered with a
material, which will not injuriously affect, or be injuriously affected by, the cheese,
and which is provided with means whereby it can be heated to, and maintained at,
the temperature which is found most advantageous for enabling the brand or
marking device to be impressed into the cheese without injuring its quality by too
high a temperature. The heating may be effected, for instance, by gas jets, or by
means of electricity passed through a resistance in connection with the brand, or
marking device. The brand, or marking device can be arranged so as to act on
one side, or the top or bottom at a time, or it can be made in duplicate, or with
a number of brands, or marking devices, the brand, or marking device, or brands,
or marking devices, being connected with a press, or like means, whereby the
cheeses can be supported whilst the brand, or marking device, or brands, or
marking devices, is or are pressed onto the cheese, or the cheese is pressed onto the
brand, or marking device. In practice we believe that the most favourable
temperature for the brand or the like will be what is known as a brass lacquering
heat or thereabouts; and in order to avoid breaking the surface of the cheeses, or
otherwise injuring them the lines of the design or lettering of the brand, or the
like, should not exceed say about one eighth of an inch in breadth.
Dated this 18th day of January 1895.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in and Apparatus for Branding or Marking Cheeses.
We, WILLIAM EDWARD BUDGETT, JAMES HERBERT BUDGETT and CHARLES
THEODORE BUDGETT all of the Firm of H. H. & S. Budgett & Company of
Nelson Street in the City of Bristol Merchants, 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 for its object to provide means whereby cheeses can be

page_text: marked or branded so as to indicate their quality and so preferably that the
markings can be identified on portions of the cheese only as well as upon the
whole cheese so as to meet the requirements of retail as well as of wholesale
dealers in cheeses.
According to this invention the cheese is marked over its surface, or over any
desired portion or portions thereof, with marks preferably so repeated that such
portions of the cheese as are usually sold in retail trade will still bear sufficient of
the marking to enable each such portion to be identified as having been properly
marked with the mark indicating the kind or quality. The marking is done by
means of a brand, or marking device which is of a material, or is covered with a
material which will not injuriously affect, or be injuriously affected by the cheese,
and which is provided with means whereby it can be heated to and maintained at,
the temperature which is found most advantageous for enabling the brand or
marking device to be impressed into the cheese without injuring its quality by too
high a temperature. The heating may be effected for instance by gas jets or by
means of electricity passed through a resistance in connection with the brand, or
marking device. The brand or marking device, can be arranged so as to act on
one side, or the top or bottom at a time, or it can be made in duplicate, or with
a number of brands, or marking devices, the brand, or marking device, or brands
or marking devices, being connected with a press, or like means, whereby the
cheeses can be supported whilst the brand, or marking device or brands, or marking
devices, is or are pressed onto the cheese, or the cheese is pressed onto the brand,
or marking device. In practice we believe that the most favourable temperature
for the brand or the like will be what is known as a brass lacquering heat or
thereabouts and in order to avoid breaking the surface of the cheeses, or otherwise
injuring them, the lines of the design or lettering of the brand, or the like, should
not exceed say about one eighth of an inch in breadth.
The accompanying drawing represents in Figure 1 an apparatus for use according
to this invention.
A is a screw press upon which is mounted a die or brand B having upon its face
the design or marking selected which is preferably arranged so that each part of
the surface of the cheese receives a distinguishing mark. Figure 2 is a plan
shewing a suitable arrangement of the brand markings. The die or brand is heated
by means of the electrical device shewn at C, consisting of resistances at c through
which electric current is led by the conductors in connection with any suitable
source of electricity. The brand having been heated to or about the temperature
herein before mentioned and being in the press as shewn the cheese is placed
thereon and is pressed by the screw down upon the brand. The pressure is then
relieved and the cheese removed and reversed and replaced if the other side is
to be branded also. The apparatus may be heated by gas or other means as well
as by electricity and we do not limit ourselves to the precise arrangement of the
apparatus as shewn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
1. The branding or marking of cheeses substantially in the manner hereinbefore
described.
2. An apparatus for branding or marking cheeses arranged and operating
substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 8th day of July 1895.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.