Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Slicing or Dividing Bread or like Matters and Applying Butter or like Matters thereto.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 8th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 16th Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Slicing or Dividing Bread
or like Matters and Applying Butter or like Matters thereto.
1, ANDREW WEBSTER KIDDIE of 36 Virginia Street, Southport, in the County
of Lancaster, Joiner and Builder do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows
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This invention relates to certain improvements in details of means or apparatus
for dividing bread or other like matters and applying butter or like matters thereto
of the character described in the Specification of Letters Patent No. 14092 dated
September 8th 1890 applied for by me and the improvements are designed to
facilitate the operation of the parts of such apparatus, especially under circum-
stances of higher temperatures and otherwise to prevent misplacement of butter
and generally facilitate proper working.
Referring to my said former Specification I attach to the slide on which the
knife is mounted a suitably shaped plate or plates, running on rods or guides and
controlled in its movements relatively to the bread by a stop piece or pieces on the
plate or plates and a trigger arm or catch on the slide coöperating with an adjust-
able stud, arm or piece on the framework or platform of the apparatus, so that as
the slide is drawn back it leaves the plate, or plates, at rest by reason of said plate
or plates, coming against the stop or frame and thus bring the forward edge of the
plate over and in contact or nearly so with the rearward roller relieving it of any
accumulation of butter or material being spread. As the slide goes forward it
carries with it the plate or plates between the bread and the slide shielding the
butter now spread on the bread from being transferred to the inner face of the
slide and the guard plate or plates remains against the buttered bread until in
the further movement of the slide the bread is brought in contact with the knife
when the slide engages the plate, or plates, and carries it free of bread and the
slice of buttered bread falls on the table provided for it.
In practice I find that with three or more rollers cooperating to spread butter
on bread the gauge or sliding plate described in my said former Specification may
be modified with advantage, in some cases, by restricting the size of the gauge to
its operation on the one outlet and providing it with turned over or projecting
edges to catch better against the exit butter rolls and prevent escape of butter
at those parts of the rolls where the loaf does not reach to and on the opposite or
bread side of these butter rolls other plate or plates may be provided adjustable to
scrape off any escaped butter from the inoperative part of the rolls.
she and dow of Jul 1891
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Slicing or Dividing Bread
or like Matters and Applying Butter or like Matters thereto.
I, ANDREW WEBSTER KIDDIE of 36 Virginia Street Southport in the County
of Lancaster Joiner and Builder 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 certain improvements in details of means or apparatus
for dividing bread or other like matters and applying butter or like matters thereto

page_text: of the character described in the Specification of Letters Patent No. 14092 dated
September 8th 1890 applied for by me, and the improvements are designed to
facilitate the operation of the parts of such apparatus, especially under circum-
stances of higher temperatures and otherwise to prevent misplacement of butter
and generally facilitate proper working.
Referring to my said former Specification I attach to the slide on which the
knife is mounted a suitably shaped plate, or plates, running on rods or guides and
controlled in its movements relatively to the bread by a stop piece, or pieces, on
the plate, or plates, and a trigger arm, or catch, on the slide, cooperating with an
adjustable stud, arm or piece on the framework or platform of the apparatus, so
that as the slide is drawn back, it leaves the plate, or plates, at rest by reason of
said plate, or plates, coming against the stop or frame, and this brings the forward
edge of the plate over and in contact or nearly so with the rearward roller,
relieving it of any accumulation of butter or material being spread.
As the slide goes forward it carries with it the plate, or plates, between the
bread and the slide, shielding the butter, now spread on the bread, from smearing
the edges of the bread or from being transferred to the inner face of the slide
and the guard plate, or plates, remain against the buttered bread, until in the
further movement of the slide the bread is brought in contact with the knife, when
the slide engages the plate, or plates, and carries it free of bread, and the slice of
buttered bread falls on the table provided for it.
In practice I find that with three or more rollers, coöperating to spread butter
on bread, the gauge or sliding plate described in my said former Specification may
be modified with advantage, in some cases, by restricting the size of the gauge to
its operation on the one outlet and providing it with turned over or projecting
edges to catch better against the exit butter rolls and prevent escape of butter at
those parts of the rolls where the loaf does not reach to, and on the opposite or
bread side of these butter rolls other plates, or plates, may be provided adjustable
to scrape off any escaped butter from the inoperative parts of the rolls.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure shows a front view of so much of the machine, as improved, as is
requisite for comprehension of the invention.
Fig. 2 is an end or edge view thereof looking from the handle.
Fig. 3 shews a front view of the under plate
the sliding guard, separately.
Fig. 4 is a vertical section of same.
carrying the butter box and also
Fig. 5 is a sectional plan view of the butter spreading mechanism.
Fig. 6 is a plan view thereof.
Fig. 7 shews a separate front to an enlarged scale of the guard or adjustable
regulator of emission orifice for the butter rolls, and
Fig. 8 a plan thereof.
Fig. 9 is a front view and
Fig. 10 an end view of the stops attached to the frame a of the machine which
engage stops on the plate k.
I have lettered corresponding parts of the apparatus, shewn in my former
Specification and in the present one with like letters of reference, thus:
a is the frame, a the top guide, a² the bottom guide, the slide, the knife,
c the butter box, c', c side walls thereof, e² top and bottom, and the presser,
c, c cheeks, c, c7 springs, e spring supports, and spring hooks, d, d', d butter
rolls, d' is axis of roll d', de collar thereon carrying the click which engages rack
wheel which is formed in one with wheel g. is a wheel formed in one with
wheel, and mounted on axis of roller d. being the retaining cellar
carrying the click d12, operating the teeth to move the roller d. The axis 10x
of the roller 2 has parts dux, 12*, * and * corresponding in construction and
operation to the parts du, d, h & h³.

page_text: On the slide are two guide rods, ', affixed over two slots 2, ², and
mounted on these rods is the plate 4, the function of which plate is to be placed
between the buttered bread and the adjacent face of the slide to keep the
butter therefrom. I is a plate having a slot, and a cranked screw pin 2, engaged
in a thread formed in its end. Through the slot is passed a fly nut screw,
which enters the framing and adjustably locks the plate thereto; the whole
forming an adjustable stop against which the stop o on the butter guard k strikes..
o is another stop on the guard tail k, and p is a trigger engaging it.
This
trigger being centered at 1, when its opposite end 2 strikes the stop pin m²
mounted on the plate m, which is adjustably affixed to the framing a by the
screw m³ passing thereinto through the slot m³, the said end p² is raised releasing
the stop o'.
7: 7 are screws mounted in the frame
adjusted distances of the axes d', d, and do.
serving to regulate the relatively
n is a guard plate of angular cross section, which plate is capable of being
raised through the slot n formed for it in the top side of the butter box c³, or of
being lowered therethrough to any position required so as to regulate the distance.
through which butter shall be emitted through the slit between the rollers d, d';:
and is a spring which by frictional engagement keeps the plate 2 in adjusted
position.
In operation the slide being drawn to the right hand the parts are brought
into the position shewn, the stop having engaged the stop o of the butter guard,
that part has been held back so that the trigger p engages the stop o'. Now on
the slide carrying the plate being moved forward, the plate is pushed in
between the surface of the loaf (not shewn), and the plate preserving the latter
from contact with the butter just spread by the rolls d, d', d on the loaf until the
stop pin m² striking the tail piece p² the stop o' is released and the plate & drops.
rearward relatively to the plate assuming the position relatively thereto indicated
by the dotted lines.
are top and bottom outer guard pieces which may be used to prevent
butter being einitted above or below the surface of the loaf presented to them.
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 and arrangement of parts for preventing smearing of the.
edges of bread or undesirable contact and deposit of the butter or other matter
spread upon the loaf of bread or cake until the loaf or cake reaches the knife in
apparatus for slicing or dividing bread or like matters and applying butter or
like matters thereto substantially as set forth.
2. The employment of guard plates or regulators for determining the extent of
orifice between the rollers through which the butter, or other matter, shall be
permitted to exude or escape to be spread on the loaf as set forth.
Dated the 8th day of March 1892
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant..