IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR PACKING AND CONSOLIDATING TEA AND OTHER SUBSTANCES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Jonas, of Fenchurch Street, in the City of
London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS
FOR PACKING AND CONSOLIDATING TEA AND OTHER SUBSTANCES."
Sealed the 3rd June 1870, and dated the 7th December 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Jonas at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th December 1869.
I, JOHN JONAS, of Fenchurch Street, in the City of London, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR PACKING AND CONSOLIDATING TEA AND OTHER SUB-
STANCES," to be as follows:-
The Invention has for its object improvements in means or apparatus
for packing and consolidating tea and other substances.
For the purpose of packing and consolidating tea I employ a follower
which is acted upon by a screw or other suitable means as heretofore to
compress the tea within the chest or canister, and in order to assist in

page_text: packing and consolidating the tea I employ strikers or beaters to give a
succession of blows against the bottom, and if desired against the sides
of the chest or canister. These beaters may be caused to operate in
any suitable or convenient manner, but that which I have found to
answer consists of a number of spring arms or strikers which are
operated by a peg wheel mounted on an axis to which rotary motion is
given in any suitable manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Jonas in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
7th June 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
JONAS, of Fenchurch Street, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said John Jonas, Her special licence, that
I, the said John Jonas, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said John Jonas, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS
OR APPARATUS FOR PACKING AND CONSOLIDATING TEA AND OTHER SUBSTANCES,'
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Jonas, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and scals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Jonas, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
The Invention has for its object improvements in means or apparatus
for packing and consolidating tea and other substances.
For the purpose of packing and consolidating tea I employ a follower
which is acted upon by a screw or other suitable means as heretofore to
compress the tea within the chest or canister, and in order to assist in
packing and consolidating the tea I employ strikers or beaters to give
a succession of blows against the bottom and if desired against the sides
of the chest or canister. These beaters may be caused to operate in any
suitable or convenient manner, but that which I have found to answer
consists of a number of spring arms or strikers which are operated by a
peg wheel mounted on an axis to which rotary motion is given in any
suitable manner or by the means herein-after described.
And in order that my Invention may be more clearly understood and
readily carried into effect I will proceed aided by the accompanying
Drawings more fully to describe the same.
Figure 1 is a front elevation, and Figure 2 is a side elevation of ma-
chinery or apparatus constructed according to my Invention for packing
and consolidating tea and other substances.
a is a chest or canister, which is supported on a suitable stand bas
shown; c is a follower which is acted upon by a screw d as heretofore to
compress the contents of the chest or canister, but in order to assist in
packing or consolidating the contents of the chest or canister I employ
a number of beaters or mallets e, f, f, g, to strike against the sides and
bottom of the chest or canister. These mallets or beaters are carried by
spring arms fixed to suitable shafts or axes, and may be acted upon as
described in my Provisional Specification by means of peg wheels or by
any other suitable means, but the arrangement which I prefer is that
shown in the Drawings, in which the mallet or beater e is mounted on a
shaft or axis e', the mallets or beaters f, f¹, on a twisted shaft or axis f
and the mallet or beater g on an axis g¹ shown by dotted lines.
Motion is given to these mallets or beaters in the following manner :-
On the main or driving axis h.is fixed a toothed wheel ' which gives
motion to a toothed wheel mounted on the axis i, on which is also fixed

page_text: a crank arm which is connected by a link or connecting rod ³ to
one end of a-lever f³ so as to give a rocking motion to the shaft or
axis fcarrying the mallets or beaters f, f'. The other end of the
lever f³ is by a link or connecting rod et connected to a crank lever e³
fixed to the shaft or axis e' carrying the mallet e. On the shaft or
axis is also fixed a lever f*, one end of which is by a link fs connected
to the crank arm ¹ fixed on the axis of the fly wheel k. This lever f*
acts upon a continuation g² of the spring arm of the mallet g to give
motion thereto, such continuation 9 passing through a hole formed in
the lever f. By twisting the shaft or axis f2 or by mounting the spring
mallets or beaters f, f, thereon at different angles, as shown at Figures 1
and 3, the beaters or mallets fare caused first to strike the bottom of the
chest or canister, and then the beaters f¹ are caused to act thereon, as will
be well understood.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the mode
in which I carry the same into effect, I would have it understood that
what I claim is, the employment in means or apparatus for packing and
consolidating tea and other substances of beaters or mallets in com-
bination with a follower in manner substantially as herein shown and
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Jonas, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
Witness,
CHAS. M. WHITE,
Clerk to Messrs. Harris & Mills,
Patent Agents,
35, Southampton Buildings,
London.
J. JONAS. (L.S.)