Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Moulding Butter and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Moulding Butter
and the like.
I, EDWARD JONES of The Welsh Dairy, 76, Bristol Street, in the City of
Birmingham, Egg Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved butter block and screen for making up tub
butter into pounds, half-pounds, and the like, and which is also applicable to
making up various other goods of a like nature.
Butter blocks adapted for a counter or the like, as usually constructed, are made
up of solid or imitation marble and are closed at their fronts and sides by solid
slabs, the back portion only being left open for the assistant or other person to
manipulate the butter or other substance. Such blocks and screens are very much
objected to by buyers or customers as they prefer to see the butter, &c., made up
after it has been weighed, so that no dishonesty can be practised upon them.
Now my invention consists in providing a butter block and screen with a trans-
parent glass front, where through the making up of the article being bought can
be witnessed. The base, top, and sides of the combined glass and screen I make
of marble, imitation marble, or of any other suitable material, in the ordinary
manner, but leave the front open, and into this I let a square of transparent glass,
or a frame carrying a square of glass, and fix the same in position by suitable
means. The square of glass I preferably adorn with advertising matter arranged
so as not to interfere with its transparency and, in some cases, I build up the
transparent front of a combination consisting of coloured and plain glass, which will
be very effective and conspicuous whilst, at the same time, transparent. I may
further embellish and fix ornamentations to the transparent front without departing
from the object of the invention but, in every case, the window-like front must
admit of the manipulation of the article made up being easily and clearly
witnessed.
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W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 11, Burlington Chambers, New Street, Birmingham,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in and relating to Apparatus for Moulding Butter
and the like.
1, EDWARD JONES of The Welsh Dairy, 76, Bristol Street, in the City of
Birmingham, Egg Merchant, 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 an improved apparatus or butter block and screen for

page_text: making-up and moulding tub butter after being weighed into pounds, half pounds,
and the like for customers; the same being also applicable for making up various
other goods.
Butter blocks and screens as usually constructed, with their fronts and sides
built up of solid slabs of marble, are very much objected to by buyers or customers,
as it is possible for the seller, when making up or moulding the material sold behind
such an enclosure, to practice dishonesty.
Now this invention is a butter block and screen constructed in such a manner
that the buyer can view the process of making up the article purchased. The same
consists in providing and fitting the front of the block and screen with a trans-
parent glass or other front, either rabbetted into the walls of the screen or carried
within a suitable frame; the said transparent front or panel also constituting a
renewable advertising medium.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying sheet of drawings represents a combined butter
block and screen constructed according to this invention, Fig. 2 being an end
elevation thereof, and Fig. 3 a transverse vertical section.
Fig. 4 represents the glass panel forming the transparent front carried within a
wooden or other frame.
The butter block a is built up in the ordinary manner, the base a², top a³, and
sides a, a, thereof being composed of marble, imitation marble, or other suitable
material, but the front a is left open, to which is fitted the transparent panel as
aforesaid; the back a' also being open for manipulation of the material being made
up. The inner edges c, c², c³, c, of the base, top, and sides, are undercut or
rabbetted as shown in Fig. 3, to form facing edges for a transparent square of
glass d, permanently fixed by putty boundaries d². The said transparency is
adorned with advertising matter, portions such as g, g2, being provided for the same,
so as not to interfere with the viewing of the interior of the screen. In Fig. 4 the
transparent glass front d is shown carried within a frame d², capable of being
placed in position within the screen a to constitute a front thereto, and also to be
withdrawn therefrom when necessary.
The transparent front d may be composed of different coloured glass squares,
and suitably embellished with fixed ornamentations so long as its transparency is
not effected, but in every case the window like front must admit of the manipulation
of the article made up being easily and distinctly witnessed.
Instead of glass, celluloid, tac, or other suitable material may be used for the
transparent panel.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I declare that what
claim is :-
First. In blocks and screens of non-transparent material constructing and fitting
the same with a transparent front d, either permanent or detachable, and plain or
embellished with advertising and effective matter, for the purpose substantially as
described and set forth.
Second. The general construction arrangement and fitting of the parts as set
forth.