IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR USE IN MAKING CHOCOLATE CREAMS AND OTHER SWEETMEATS, APPLICABLE ALSO FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, for an Invention of "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
USE IN MAKING CHOCOLATE CREAMS AND OTHER SWEETMEATS, APPLICABLE
ALSO FOR OTHER PURPOSES." A communication from abroad by Jean
Baptiste Gauvin and Louis Brulin, both of Paris, France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Clark at the Offico
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st May 1880.
WILLIAM CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agent. "IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR USE IN MAKING CHOCOLATE CREAMS AND
OTHER SWEETMEATS, APPLICABLE ALSO FOR OTHER PURPOSES." [A. communication
from abroad by Jean Baptiste Gauvin and Louis Brulin, both of Paris, France.]
This Invention relates to apparatus for use in making chocolate creams and other
sweetmeats requiring to be coated.
Hitherto in the manufacture of confectionery of this kind each article required
to be dipped by hand separately, but the present Invention has for its object to
furnish an apparatus whereby a number of these sweetmeats may be dipped at
one time, so as to produce from 12 to 15 times as many in a given time as can
be obtained by the most skilled hand labor. The apparatus is composed of two
principal portions superposed, but capable of being rendered independent of each
other. The upper part, which is termed the distributor, consists of a plate made
with cavities to receive the creams or other sweetmeats to be dipped, and provided
with a movable bottom, so arranged as to allow the creams to drop at a given
moment into the lower part of the apparatus, where they are coated and afterwards
discharged all together upon a sheet of paper or other surface.
In order that the Invention may be more readily understood I have illustrated
it in the accompanying Drawings simply by way of example. Figure 1 is a front
view of the entire apparatus, and Figure 2 a side view of same. Figure 3 is a plan
of the top half only, and Figure 4 a section of same on line 1, 2, Figure 3.
Figure 5 is a plan of the bottom half with which the dipping is effected, and
Figure 6 a section of same on line 3, 4, Figure 5. In all these Figures the same
letters stand for like parts.

page_text: The upper half of the apparatus consists of a plate a having sides b and provided
with series of holes with tubular extensions c projecting downwards to the slide d
which is mounted upon three rods, e, g, fitted to slide freely in the sides b. The slide d
is retained in the closed position, as seen in Figure 4, by means of spring / on the
rods e, g, but by pressing knob i on stem g the springs are compressed and the
holes j in slide & brought opposite the openings c in the plate a, thus allowing the
creams which have been previously placed in each of the tubes c to drop into the
bottom part of the apparatus for the purpose of being coated. This bottom part is
composed of a frame k and cross rods l, m, which divide the space into squares
corresponding to each of the holes in the plate a. The rods are fixtures and carry
the straight wires or pins 8. The rods m carry the wires ", which are arranged in
pairs bent towards each other at the lower ends. These rods m are mounted so as
to be rocked by levers n which are placed at each side of the apparatus and operate
rods o to which the cross rods m are connected by short arms p.
I will now proceed to describe the mode of using the apparatus in the manu-
facture of what are known as chocolate creams, although it is equally applicable for
use in coating other descriptions of sweetmeats, as well as for coating other articles,
by dipping in the manner herein described. The creams to be coated when placed
in the holes in the plate a fall upon the slide d, and the plate a thus filled is then
placed over the frame k. On pressing knob i the spring his compressed, and the
holes in the slide d being brought underneath the holes in plate a the creams at
once fall into the frame beneath, where they are held by the curved wires and
straight wires r, 8. The top half of the apparatus is then removed and the creams
immersed for the desired time in the chocolate coating, the frame being held mean-
while by the handles t. This being done the frame is raised out of the liquid, and
any superfluous quantity adhering to the creams is shaken off by striking the
ends against cross bars placed above the vessel containing the chocolate
coating. The frame is then placed upon a sheet of paper or other surface, when by
rocking the levers n in opposite directions the curved wires are separated, as
shown in dotted lines in Figure 6, thus allowing all the creams coated with chocolate
to simultaneously drop onto the paper. The saving of time effected by dipping a
large number of creams at a time is very considerable, as will be readily understood,
and as one person can fill the top plate while a second one is dipping, the operation
can go on uninterruptedly.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Clark in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th November
1880.
"
WILLIAM CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agent. IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR USE IN MAKING CHOCOLATE CREAMS AND
OTHER SWEETMEATS, APPLICABLE ALSO FOR OTHER PURPOSES." A communication
from abroad by Jean Baptiste Gauvin and Louis Brulin, both of Paris, France.
This Invention relates to apparatus for use in making chocolate creams and in
coating other sweetmeats by dipping.
It has been, usual hitherto in making this kind of confectionery to dip cach
article separately, which is a comparatively slow process, and by limiting the pro-
duction greatly increases the cost of manufacture. This Invention consists in an
apparatus whereby a large number of such sweetmeats or substances may be dipped
at once, thus increasing the rate of production about 12 or 15 times over that of
the most skilled hand labor. The apparatus consists of a filling frame and a
dipping frame capable of being fitted the former upon the latter for the purpose of
filling the dipper with the creams or other sweetmeats to be coated, and of being
separated whilst the dipper is being used. The upper part or filler consists of a
plate having cavities formed in it, closed at bottom by a sliding plate having holes
in it, which may be made to coincide with the said cavities in order to allow the
creams or other substances placed therein to fall through all at once into their
respective holders in the dipping frame placed beneath. The lower part or dipper
consists of a frame provided with a number of wire claws or holders corresponding
in position to the cavities of the filler, and in which the creams or other substances
are held whilst being dipped, the said holders being provided with mechanism
whereby the creams or other substances after being coated may be discharged all
together upon a sheet of paper or other surface.
In order that the Invention may be more readily understood, I have illustrated
it in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front and Figure 2 a side
elevation of the two parts of the apparatus fitted together. Figure 3 is a top plan
of the filler separately, and Figure 4 is a section of the same on line 1-2, Figure 3.
Figure 5 is a top plan of the dipper separately, and Figure 6 is a section of the
same on line 3-4, Figure 5. In all these Figures the same letters of reference
indicate the same parts.
The upper part or filler consists of a plate a provided with flanges b on the
underside, and having regularly arranged rows of holes in its surface, cach
surrounded on the underside of the plate by short tubes c projecting downwards in
which the creams or other substances are placed; d is a sliding plate immediately
beneath and closing tubes c at bottom. It has holes ; through it, which may be
made to coincide with the tubes c by sliding the plate d, this plate being carried by
three rods e, g, fitted to slide through the flanges b. The plate d is retained in the
position shown in Figure 4 (in which the solid parts of the plate close the cavities c
at bottom) by means of springs on the rods e, f, but by pressing the knob i the
springs are compressed and the holes ; made to coincide with the cavities c, thus
allowing the creams which have been previously placed therein to drop into their
proper places in the dipping frame placed beneath. The dipper consists of a frame k
and cross rods l, m, which divide the space within the frame into squares, with
certain of which, say the alternate ones, the holes in the plate a of the filling frame
correspond in position. The rods are fixtures and carry pairs of straight guiding
and holding wires or pins 6 disposed at two opposite sides of the squares above
referred to. The rods m also carry pairs of wires disposed at the other two sides
of the same square and which are bent inwards at the lower ends. These rods m

page_text: are free to be partly rotated on their own axes, and this movement is imparted to
them by levers n which act on connecting rods o to which are jointed short arms p
fixed on the adjacent ends of alternate rods m, so that the one rod of each pair is
rotated in the one direction, and the other in the opposite. Both the filling and
dipping frames are provided with handles for lifting them, and the dipping frame
has legs to stand on to raise the wire holders off the surface on which it rests,
except in the act of dipping.
The mode of using the apparatus is as follows:-The creams or other substances
to be coated are placed one in each of the cavities of the plate a where they rest
upon the slide d, and the filler when thus charged is then fitted upon the dipping
frame. The plate d is then moved by pressing knob i until the holes j come
underneath the cavities c, and allow all the creams to fall at once into the respective
claws or holders of the dipping frame beneath. They fall down between the wires
and rest upon the curved lower ends of the wires r. The filling frame is then
removed from the dipper, and the latter held by its handles t is lowered into the
chocolate or other bath until the creams are sufficiently immersed, whereupon the,
frame is raised and any superfluous liquid adhering to the creams is shaken off by
striking the projecting arms against cross bars placed above the chocolate pan.
The dipping frame is then stood upon a sheet of paper or other surface and the
levers n are moved so that the alternate rods m are rotated in opposite directions
whereby the curved wires are separated, as shown in dotted lines in Figure 6,
thus allowing all the creams or other substances which have been dipped to drop at
once onto the paper at regular distances apart.
It should be understood that any other suitable means, such as cams or a combi-
nation of levers, may be used in lieu of the means above described for effecting the
separation of the wire holders. A great saving of time is effected by dipping a
large number at a time, and as one person can charge the filling frame while
another is dipping, the operation can go on uninterruptedly.
Having described the nature of the said Invention and the manner of performing
the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the
hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is,―
1st. As part of an apparatus for dipping creams and other substances, a filling
frame consisting of a plate with perforations or cavities, and of a perforated sliding
bottom operating in connection therewith, substantially as shown and described for
depositing the creams or other substances into their proper holders in the dipping
frame.
2nd. An apparatus for dipping creams or other substances consisting of a frame
constructed and provided with fixed and movable wire claws or holders, substantially
as shown and described, for holding and dipping a number of creams or other
substances at a time and discharging them all at once after dipping, as set forth.
3rd. The employment in combination of a filling frame, constructed substantially
as herein shown and described, and of a dipping frame constructed with movable
wires, claws, or holders, substantially as shown and described, the two frames corre-
sponding and being used respectively for the purposes specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Clark, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twentieth day of November, A.D. 1880.