IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OR MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN KINDS OF SWEETMEATS AND LOZENGES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Edward Bond, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Machinist, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS OR MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN KINDS OF
SWEETMEATS AND LOZENGES."
Sealed the 14th March 1871, and dated the 20th September 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Edward Bond
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 20th September 1870.
I, THOMAS EDWARD BOND, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Machinist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS OR MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN
KINDS OF SWEETMEATS AND LOZENGES," to be as follows, that is to say :-
I form a perforated plate of metal, wood, glass, porcelain, or other
suitable material, the perforations in which plate are of the form of the
lozenge or sweetmeat I wish to produce. I form a counterpart of this
plate having instead of perforations one or more punches fitting with
tolerable accuracy the perforations in the first plate. The perforated
plate is to form a travelling bed upon which the paste or material of the

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lozenge or sweetment is to be laid, and this plate with the paste travels
beneath the punching plate, which having a vertical motion each punch
enters one of the perforations through the paste and carries with it a
lozenge or other form of sweetmeat which is deposited upon a receiver
ready for drying, or the two plates being placed together with a sheet of
the paste between them may be submitted to pressure in any convenient
mode.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Edward Bond in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 20th March 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
EDWARD BOND, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Machinist,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Edward Bond, Her special
licence that I, the said Thomas Edward Bond, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas Edward Bond,
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
APPARATUS OR MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN KINDS OF Sweet-
MEATS AND LOZENGES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Thomas Edward Bond, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
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 Thomas Edward Bond, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, that is to say :—
The apparatus or machinery consists of a horizontal travelling
perforated plate of metal, wood, glass, porcelain, or other suitable
material, the perforations in such plate being of the form of the lozenge
or sweetmeat to be produced, and arranged in suitable numbers in rows
or otherwise at regular distances apart. Above the travelling perforated
plate are suitably secured in a holder or carrier a series of one or more
rows of vertical plungers, punches, or dies having an up-and-down
motion within a guide or pair of slides and fitting with accuracy the
perforations in the travelling horizontal plate beneath them. The
perforated plate forms a travelling bed upon which the paste or material
of the lozenge or sweetmeat is to be laid in a layer of suitable thickness,
the perforated plate with the paste travels with an intermittent motion
beneath the vertical plungers, punches, or dies which descend so as to
allow each plunger to enter one of the perforations in the plate through
the paste, thus carrying with it a lozenge or sweetmeat of the intended
form; the lozenges or sweetmeats thus punched out fall into or upon a
suitable tray or receiver ready for removal for the drying process; upon
the ascent of the plungers for the purpose of freeing them from the
perforations last entered the travelling movement of the perforated
plate or bed takes place, advancing another series of perforations and a
fresh surface of the paste for the next descent of the plungers; to
prevent the paste from puckering or adhering around the plungers in
their ascent or releasing movement I employ a "pull back" plate fitted
accurately beneath the plungers and immediately above the paste and
similarly perforated to the under plate so as to receive the plungers, the
perforations in such plate corresponding in number to the plungers
employed.
For imparting motion to the apparatus or machinery described I
purpose employing any convenient or suitable means such as a rack and
pinion arrangement driven by hand or by fast and loose pulleys in com-
bination with a pawl and ratchet wheel and other gearing; or the
plungers, punches, or dies may be worked by the action of a suitable
hydraulic or other press from above if desired.
Having thus described the object and nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be carried into effect, I claim,
without confining myself to these precise details, the improvements in

page_text: apparatus or machinery for the manufacture of certain kinds of sweet-
meats or lozenges, substantially in manner as herein more fully set forth
and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Edward Bond, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
THOMAS EDWARD BOND. (L.S.)