Improvements relating to Bread Making and like Machines.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Bread Making and like Machines.
We, JOHN EDWARD POINTON, and CHARLES EDWARD POINTON, both of Wrekin
Road, Wellington, in the County of Salop, Engineers, and GEORGE LEWIS of Park
Street, Wellington aforesaid, Baker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention consists of improvements relating to bread making and like
machines, our object being to provide simple and effective means for imposing a
uniform pressure on a mass of dough for the purpose of dividing it into a number
of loaves or portions of equal weight.
In the application of our invention we employ a ram or plunger of cast iron
or other suitable material and mount the same upon the bed of the bread making
machine beneath the hopper or feeder which receives the mass of dough to be
divided. The ram or plunger is reciprocated beneath the hopper by means of a
lever which is moved in one direction by the action of a suitably shaped cam,
and in the opposite direction by a weight or spring acting on the end of the lever
remote from the ram the weight being preferably suspended from the lever by a
chain or cord passing over suitable guide pulleys. We so arrange the position of
the lever fulcrum in relation to the ram and the weight, that the in-stroke or
working stroke of the ram is accomplished by the descent of the weight. The
out or return movement of the ram is obtained by the action of the cam working
against a roller mounted on the lever, and during such return movement the weight
is raised ready for the next in-stroke.
As the ram passes beneath the hopper during its in-stroke or working stroke,
it separates a portion of dough from the mass and carries the same forward for
delivery into boxes or receptacles of such a form as to give the required shape to
the loaves or cakes. The pressure on the ram due to the action of the weighted
lever being constant and of uniform intensity, and the suspended weight permit-
ting of variation in the length of the ram stroke, the portions of dough divided
are of equal weight, the automatic variation of the stroke with the uniformity of
pressure effectually compensating for variation in the consistency of the dough.
We sometimes cause the in-stroke or working stroke of the ram to be accomp-
lished by the combined action of the cam and the falling weight, the fulcrum of
the lever being then disposed between the cam and the point of attachment of the
weighted chain. The cam side of the lever is formed in two parts with a pin and
slot joint or connection which is inoperative when the cam and weight move
uniformly, but is provided for the purpose of permitting the cam to move inde-
pendently and without action on the ram.
We do not limit the application of our invention to machines of any particular
type but adapt the same with such modifications as may be necessary to varying
forms of bread making or dough dividing apparatus.
26th Joy of Santamber 1896
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.

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We, JOHN EDWARD POINTON, and CHARLES EDWARD POINTON, both of Wrekin
Road, Wellington, and GEORGE LEWIS, of Steam Bakery, Wellington, all in the
County of Salop, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention consists of improvements relating to bread making and like
machines, our object being to provide simple and effective means for imposing a
uniform pressure on a mass of dough for the purpose of dividing it into a number
of loaves or portions of equal weight.
The accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred to,
illustrates my invention as applied to a dough dividing machine of the type
described in the Specification of Letters Patent No. 9683 of 1894.
In the application of our invention we employ a ram or plunger as A of cast
iron or other suitable material and mount the same upon the bed B of the bread
making machine beneath the hopper or feeder C which receives the mass of dough
to be divided. The ram or plunger A is reciprocated beneath the hopper by means
of a lever D) which is moved in one direction by the action of a suitably shaped
cam E and in the opposite direction by a spring or by a weight F acting on the
end of the lever remote from the ram, the weight being preferably suspended from
the lever by a chain or cord G passing over suitable guide pulleys HH'. The
lever D has its fulcrum at d and the instroke or working stroke of the ram is
accomplished by the descent of the weight F. The out or return movement of
the ram is obtained by the action of the cam E working against the roller J
mounted on the lever D, and during such return movement the weight is raised
ready for the next in-stroke.
As the ram A passes beneath the hopper C during its in-stroke or working
stroke, it separates a portion of dough from the mass and carries the same forward
for delivery into boxes or receptacles of such a form as to give the required shape
to the loaves or cakes. The pressure on the ram due to the action of the weighted
lever being constant and of uniform intensity, and the suspended weight F permit-
ting of variation in the length of the ram stroke, the portions of dough divided are
of equal weight, the automatic variation of the stroke with the uniformity of
pressure effectually compensating for variation in the consistency of the dough.
I sometimes cause the in-stroke or working stroke of the ram A to be accom-
plished by the combined action of the cam and the falling weight, the fulcrum of
the lever being then disposed between the cam and the point of attachment of
the weighted chain. The cam side of the lever is formed in two parts with a pin
and slot joint or connection which is inoperative when the cam and weight move
uniformly, but is provided for the purpose of permitting the cam to move inde-
pendently and without action on the ram.
We do not limit the application of our invention to machines of any particular
type but adapt the same with such modifications as may be necessary to varying
forms of bread making or dough dividing apparatus.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
In bread making and like machines, means for imparting a variable recipro-

page_text: cating movement to a ram or plunger, substantially as and for the purpose
described.
Dated this 28th day of July 1897.
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.