IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR EXPRESSING AND MOULDING PLASTIC SUBSTANCES FOR CONFECTIONARY AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Bennington Moore, of Old Kent Road, in the County
of Surrey, Confectioner, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
OR APPARATUS FOR EXPRESSING AND MOULDING PLASTIC SUBSTANCES FOR
CONFECTIONARY AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES."
Sealed the 4th May 1877, and dated the 11th November 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Bennington Moore at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th November 1876.
JOHN BENNINGTON MOORE, of Old Kent Road, in the County of Surrey, Con-
fectioner. "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR EXPRESSING AND.
MOULDING PLASTIC SUBSTANCES FOR CONFECTIONARY AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES."
This Invention relates to improvements in machinery or apparatus for expressing
or forcing plastic substances, such as sugar for confectionary, paste or other materials
for biscuits, or other similar purposes, through a moulding orifice or orifices in a
cylinder or chamber.
For this purpose I arrange a screw (or screws) in a cylinder or chamber, one end
of which has holes or openings formed therein of any suitable form to serve as
moulding orifices, through which the sugar, paste, or other plastic substance con-
tained in the cylinder or chamber is forced by the rotation of the screw for making
confectionary, biscuits, ornamental pastry, or for other like purposes.
An opening is formed through the side or end of the cylinder or chamber farthest
from the moulding orifices, over which a hopper is mounted, from which the paste
or substances to be moulded is fed into the cylinder.
The moulded substance as it is expressed from the orifices in the end of the
cylinder is delivered on to a board carried by a travelling endless band, driven from
the axis of the revolving screw.

page_text: And in order that my Invention may be clearly understood and readily carried
into practice, I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereto annexed.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a side elevation partly in section, and Figure 2 a plan of a
machine arranged and constructed in accordance with my Invention.
a is a screw (or screws) mounted so as to rotate in a cylinder or chamber b, the
end of which has holes or openings c formed therein of any suitable form or size to
serve as moulding orifices, through which the sugar, paste, or other plastic substance
contained in the cylinder or chamber b is forced by the rotation of the screw a for
making confectionary, biscuits, ornamental pastry, or for other like purposes.
An opening is formed through the side or top end of the cylinder or chamber b
farthest from the moulding orifices, over which a hopper d is mounted, from which
the paste or other substances to be moulded is fed into the cylinder.
The moulded substance as it is expressed from the orifices in the end of the
cylinder is delivered on to a board, calico, or other textile fabric, carried by the
travelling endless band e, driven by a pulley e¹ fixed on the axis of the revolving
screw a and the endless band e², which drives the pulley e³ fixed on the axis of the
endless band e. The screw a is driven by the endless driving band a¹ running
over fast and loose pulleys a² on the axis of the worm a³, which actuates the worm
wheel ax fixed on the axis of the screw a.
Figure 3 shows an elevation, and Figure 4 an end view of a similar machine to
that previously described, except that it has self-acting apparatus applied thereto for
the purpose of cutting off any desired lengths of the plastic substance, paste, or
other material as it is expressed from the moulding orifices. Corresponding parts of
the two machines are marked with similar letters of reference. In this arrangement
the end of the cylinder b (having orifices or outlet tubes through which the material
is forced) is formed vertical, a knife or blade fƒ (or a revolving wire or wires) being
mounted so as to move up and down over the orifices or in front thereof to cut off
the material as it is expressed through them.
An intermittend movement given to the endless band e in the following
manner is an axis driven by the endless band g¹ passing around the driving
pulley g² and pulley g³. A disc g* fixed on the end of the axis g gives motion by
means of the the connecting rod go to the lever g6, fixed on the end of the axis g' of
one of the pulleys which carry the endless band e. A driver carried by the lever g
acting in the teeth of a ratchet wheel g³ on the axis g' causes the endless band e to
travel a given distance for every revolution of the disc g'. Cams h on the axis g
raise the knife f above the moulding orifices, and allow it to fall from time to time
to cut off the material as it is expressed from the orifices in suitable lengths as
required.
The amount of movement of the lever 96 and endless band e is capable of
adjustment.
f1 is a spring which always acts to press the knife ƒ downwards.
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page_text: employed for mixing the materials used in the manufacture of confectionary, and
for other 1 like purposes.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention and the manner of performing
or carrying the same into practice, I would remark that I do not claim any of the
mechanical parts separately, neither do I intend to limit myself to the precise
arrangements and combinations herein shown and described so long as the novel.
features of my Invention are retained; but what I claim is, the improved arrange-
ment and combination of machinery or apparatus for expressing and moulding
plastic substances for making confectionary and for other like purposes, acting sub-
stantially in the manner herein-before described and represented in the Drawings
hereto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Bennington Moore, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
Witness,
J. G. TONGUE,
34, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane,
W.C.
J. B. MOORE. (L.S.)