Improvements in Bakers' Peels.
Year: 1896

page_text: Improvements in Bakers' Peels.
1, ALBERT LESLIE COBB of No. 16 Kirkdale, Sydenham, in the County of
Kent, House Furnisher, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in bakers' peels.
Hitherto a wooden peel head and its shaft have been held together by inserting.
the end of the shaft in a fork projecting from the peel plate and passing rivets.
through the prongs of the fork and the shaft. According to the present invention,
I provide for the shaft and head being detachable from each other, by forming
tongues and grooves along the adjoining faces of the shaft and the prongs and
substituting bolts and nuts for the rivets. The end of the shaft and the opposite
portion of the head are respectively morticed and tenoned for the purpose of
re-inforcing the connection between them. Further, the wood of the shaft end is
in contact throughout with the wood of the peel head and fork.
Antifriction rollers are mounted upon the underside of the head at the junction
of the shaft with it, to facilitate the travel of the peel to and fro over the floor of
the oven.
It is a matter of general experience that there is considerable wear in the case
of a peel shaft when the peel is of metal and the shaft of wood, or in any type of
peel in which metal and wood are in contact. This wear is doubtless due to the
charring agency of the hot metal socket and holding bolts. According to the
present invention, I substitute for the well known socket, a pair of plates or tabs.
These project from the peel plate in the same direction as the socket and are
concaved to fit the shaft being also sufficiently elastic to permit of a tightening up
of the bolts drawing them close up to the shaft.
A further part of the invention relates to the combination of a scuffler mop with
the peel head and shaft. A socket is interposed between the metal peel plate and.
the tabs above mentioned. This socket is of sufficient capacity to receive the mop,
and is preferably square. The latter is held to the end of the shaft by means of a
ball and socket or equivalent joint.
Dated this 18th day of June 1896.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.
:
I, ALBERT LESLIE COBB of No. 16 Kirkdale, Sydenham, in the County of
Kent, Manufacturer of Bakers' Requisites, 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 :-

page_text: Referring to the accompanying figures which are to be taken as part of this
specification and read therewith:-
Figure 1 is a plan of a wooden peel head and shaft made according to the
present invention.
Figure 2 is a section taken along the line 2-2 of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a side elevation corresponding with Figure 1.
Figure 4 is a plan of a metal peel made according to the present invention.
Figure 5 is a side elevation corresponding therewith.
Figure 6 is a side clevation of my improved mop holder.
Figure 7 is a plan of my improved mop and holder.
The first part of the present invention relates to wooden peels and their shafts.
Hitherto these have been held together by inserting the head of the shaft in a fork
projecting from the peel plate and passing rivets through the prongs of the fork
and the shaft.
According to the present invention, the shaft a may be of any suitable cross
section, tongued, grooved, round, square, angular, or otherwise, but it is of the
same cross section for the whole of its length. The peel b, has a pair of prongs c, c,
acting as a socket for the shaft end as heretofore. The contour of the internal or
opposite faces of these prongs or socket,. corresponds with that of the sides of the
shaft, so as to embrace it and fit up to them in the close manner illustrated in
Figures 1, 2 and 3. The flat d on the peel end of the shaft a in the plane of the
respective side of the peel b. is produced by friction between the said end and the
bottom of the oven or both flats may be produced by planing the shaft down after
the peel b has been made fast to it. e is the improved holding device. It consists
of a pair of screw threaded and nutted bolts, the heads of which are joined by a
cross piece f.thereby producing a U-shaped bolt.
The second part of the invention relates to metal peels and their shafts. It is a
matter of general experience that there is considerable wear in the case of a peel
shaft when the peel is of metal and the shaft of wood, or in any type of peel in
which metal and wood are in contact. This wear is doubtless due to the charring
agency of the hot metal socket and holding bolts. According to the present
invention, I substitute for the well known socket, a pair of plates or tabs. These
project from the peel plate in the same direction as the socket and are concaved to
fit the shaft, being also sufficiently elastic to permit of a tightening up of the bolts
drawing them close up, to the shaft. a is the shaft; the peel; and 63, 63, are the
plates or tabs. These latter and the peel & are held together by an intermediate
piece incorporated with the said plates 63, a flanged extension 6 of the outer end
of it, and rivets & passed through the said flanged extension and the peel b³, the
latter being continued up into and under the said intermediate piece 63. g is a
metal socket on the end of the peel shaft a. The relation between this socket g
and the peel shaft a in respect of cross section and fit, is the same as described
above with reference to the shaft a and prongs c, c of Figures 1 to 3. The metal
peel b' is held to the shaft a socketted as described by a holding device of the same
construction as illustrated in Figures 1 to 3 and described therewith.
The third part of my invention relates to a device capable of facilitating the
travel of the peel to and fro over the floor of the oven. It is more particularly
applicable to metal peels, and for that reason it is not included in those of the
accompanying figures which illustrate the first part of my invention. It consists
in the combination with the peel b at a suitable point between it and the plates or
tabs 6, of antifriction rollers h mounted on an axis standing in a plane parallel
with that of the peel.. This axis is conveniently carried by the sides of the
intermediate piece . I prefer that there should be at least two rollers h, one on
each side of the piece 63 and there may be a third one inside the intermediate
piece ba made hollow to receive it. In any case, they are of the same diameter,
their peripheries projecting below the piece 63.
The fourth part of the invention relates to the combination of a scuffle mop with
the peel and shaft. It may be combined with either end of the shaft.
The

page_text: combination illustrated in Figures 6 and 7 is with the free end of the latter. g'is
a socket held to the shaft in the same way as the socket 62, 63, of Figures 4 and 5
is held to the socketted shaft therein illustrated. i is the mop. It consists of a
bundle of cloth or equivalent material. It is held to the end of the socket g' by
being embraced within a running noose k formed in the free end of a chain having
its opposite end made fast to the said socket g¹.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. The combination with a peel, of peel socket and peel shaft each of the
same cross section throughout their length, as set forth with reference to
Figures 1, 2 and 3.
2. The combination with a peel, of peel socket, peel shaft, and holding device
consisting of an U-shaped bolt and nuts, as set forth.
3. The combination of peel, peel socket, and socketted peel shaft as set forth
with reference to Figures 4 and 5.
4. The combination of peel, peel socket, socketted peel shaft and holding device
consisting of an U-shaped bolt and nuts, as set forth with reference to Figures 4
and 5.
5. The combination of metal peel, peel socket, intermediate piece and an
extension of the peel continued up into the latter, as set forth with reference to
Figures 4 and 5.
6. The hereinbefore described combination with a peel, of antifriction rollers for
the purpose set forth.
7. The hereinbefore described combination of peel shaft and scuffle mop.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
No. 22 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.