Improvements in the Preparation, Measuring, and Packing of Butter and other Articles of Food, and in Apparatus Employed therein.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 18th June, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 18th Mar., 1890-Accepted, 24th May, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Preparation, Measuring, and Packing of
Butter and other Articles of Food, and in Apparatus Employed
therein.
A communication from abroad by GEORGE SARGENT JAKINS, of Sussex Street,
Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, Merchant.
I, SIDNEY MILROY JAKINS of 96 Leadenhall Street in the City of London,
Shipping Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is improvement in the preparation, measurement and
packing of butter and other articles of food and in means or apparatus employed,
avoiding handling or other soiling of the matters treated.
In carrying out the invention the butter or other article of food is placed in
quantities or fed continuously into a receptacle or chamber, from whence by a suitable
orifice, guarded if needed by plated or other metal or material, the butter or food is
forced by a plunger or other forcing means onto a platform or support preferably.
constituted by a series of contiguous rollers, upon which rollers the sheet or column
of butter is submitted to the dividing action of a series of accurately arranged
strings or wires-(say) metal-which divide the butter or the like into separate and
approximately equal portions, said wires being conveniently strained on a skeleton
framework which, as required, is tilted over the butter or matter. The butter when
divided is by the tilting or other movement of the framework of rollers placed on a
platform or table and thence is passed each portion onto a suitable sheet of wrapping
material and enwrapped either by its acquired rotatory movement or by other
movement.
The operation of the plunger may be by a double armed or other lever or, if a
screw, it may be by pulley or other power applying device.
Escape of fluid may be provided for, from the chamber by reticulate or other parts
and conduits or chambers.
The size of exit orifice from the chamber may be adjustable by means of removable
plates or sliding parts.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Preparation, Measuring, and Packing of
Butter. and other Articles of Food, and in Apparatus Employed
therein.
A communication from abroad by GEORGE SARGENT JAKINS, of Sussex Street,,
Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, Merchant.
"I SIDNEY MILROY JAKINS of 96 Leadenhall Street in the City of London,
Shipping Agent, 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 of this invention is improvement in the preparation, measurement and
packing of butter and other articles of food and in means or apparatus employed,
avoiding handling or other soiling of the matters treated.
In carrying out the invention the butter or other article of food is placed in
quantities or fed continuously into a receptacle or chamber, from whence by a
suitable orifice, guarded if needed by plated or other metal or material, the butter or
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page_text: wrapping material and enwrapped either by its acquired rotatory movement or by
other movenient.
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The operation of the plunger may be by a double armed or other lever, or if a
screw it may be by pulley or other power applying device.
Escape of fluid may be provided for from the chamber by reticulate or other parts
and conduits or chambers.
The size of exit orifice from the chamber may be adjustable by means of removable
plates or sliding parts.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of the apparatus arranged to carry out the
invention.
Fig. 2 is an external view of Fig. 1 and
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the rollers, dividing apparatus and platform.
Fig. 4 shews a section and
Fig. 5 an end view of the diminishing plate for regulating the size of the cylinder
of butter.
a is the box in which works the wooden or other suitable piston 6 to and fro as it.
is actuated by the screw rod c, connected to the said piston and to the rotating
handles cc. This screw rod works in a corresponding screw thread formed in the
rear end a¹ of the box a. This screw rod may be of metal. a³ is the fore end of the
box having an orifice a which may be adjusted normally to allow of the exit of
the butter under pressure of the piston 6 when the box is closed, of size suitable for
cutting up into (say) pound divisions. The size of this orifice may be diminished for
other sizes of divisions of the butter by the application at the front end thereof of
the diminishing plate d, the opening d₁ of which regulates the size of the cylinder of
butter being expressed. This plate may be screwed to the front of the box a. a* is
a lid to the box a by means of which the butter is pressed therein in bulk. This lid
is hinged at a and swings thereon.
When filled and ready for the piston to be operated the lid is closed and locked
down by means of the pins or keys a³, being passed through openings in the ends of
the vertical straps a over which ends openings in the horizontal straps a' have been
passed. As the butter is pressed out in a cylinder through the opening as it rolls
along on the rollers e mounted on axes e¹ supported by the frame f. This frame fis
made somewhat in the form of a box, open at the bottom to allow moisture, if any,
to fall to the ground. Three sides of the frame f fit over a block a secured to the.
base of the box a, and the frame f is thus kept in position. On this frame f is
mounted also, the hinged swing frame g across which are strained a number of wires
for the purpose of dividing the cylinder of butter into suitably proportioned lengths
or divisions. For this purpose the frame is swung on its hinge, brought down and
pressed over the cylinder of butter so that the wires g¹, 9, 9³, pass therethrough
dividing the cylinder into four parts. The base of the frame fis formed in two parts-
the stationary part f, and the part hinged thereto by hinges at f*; and the butter
having been divided this upper hinged part is turned over on its hinges so as to
bring the butter on to the platform h, on which have previously been laid four cloths
or wrappers suitable for enwrapping the butter in, and by suitable manipulation' the
butter is enclosed therein without any handling being necessary.
By these means the pressing of the butter to extract as much fluid as possible, the

page_text: cutting of butter by measurement to secure uniform density of weight and the
facility of wrapping or clothing without handling are secured.
It is well understood that in order to make butter keep well the greatest possible
quantity of fluid should be extracted and that the more it is pressed the better it
keeps. Furthermore all handling should be avoided and great convenience is derived
from the butter being able to be cut into pounds, half pounds, or other portions of
uniform size so as to enable factories and farmers to use uniform sized boxes
packing.
This machine will be found of great value especially for retail purposes in as much
as the retailer may fill the machine and roll out the butter for his customer.
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 :-
1. The combination or arrangement and use of parts of apparatus for pressing,
cutting, and facilitating the wrapping of butter and other articles of food, substantially
as and for the purposes herein before set forth.
2. In apparatus for pressing, cutting and facilitating the wrapping of butter and
other articles of food, the combination with a press box, provided with exit orifice,
and closable opening, piston and actuating screw with a platform consisting of series
of rolls, cutting and tilting frame and wrapping platform, substantially as and for
the purposes hereinbefore set forth.
DL 10
Masch EXUA
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.