LOVEITS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CACCHARINE COMPOUNDS, AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake,
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& Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for an invention
of « LUDOWNTO TAT TTE MANTOTDE An SACIOLADIVE COMPOUNDS
AND
LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake,
•
& Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for an invention
of "LOVEITS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF CACCHARINE COMPOUNDS,
AND
IN APPARATUS THEREFOR."-A communication from abroad by Edward Wilhelm,
of Buffalo Now Vork United States of Amorino Potant Attaran
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION, left by the said William Robert Lake at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th April 1882.
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
SACCHARINE COMPOUNDS AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR.” [A communication from
abroad by Edward Wilhelm, of Buffalo, New York, United States of America,
Patent Attorney.]
This Invention relates to the manufacture of saccharine compounds and to
apparatus therefor. Its chief object is to produce dry saccharine compounds of
grape-sugar or glucose and cane-sugar or beet-sugar, in which compounds the
sticky or adhesive property of the grape-sugar is largely neutralized.
According to the said invention these ingredients are mixed in the proportions
of, say three parts of cane-sugar or beet-sugar to one part of grape-sugar or glucose,
or in other proportions according to the demands of trade. The said invention
also comprises various apparatus employed in the manufacture of the said saccharine
compounds, as hereinafter set forth.
According to one process a quantity of cane-sugar or beet-sugar is placed in an
ordinary centrifugal machine; grape-sugar or glucose is then introduced and the
said machine is operated until the cane-sugar or beet-sugar has absorbed the desired
quantity of grape-sugar or glucose. In some cases the grape-sugar or glucose is
introduced into a centrifugal machine which is employed in the manufacture of
cane-sugar or beet-sugar, before the latter is removed from the said machine. The.
cane-sugar or .beet-sugar may be placed in any suitable vessel, instead of in a

page_text: centrifugal machine, and allowed to absorb grape-sugar or glucose which is also
introduced therein. After the cane-sugar or beet-sugar has absorbed a sufficient
proportion of grape-sugar or glucose, say from fifteen to twenty per cent, the
compound is formed into lumps or blocks or used in a granulated state or as it
comes from the centrifugal machine or vessel in which it is produced.
According to another process the grape-sugar is formed into lumps, blocks, or
slabs in any suitable manner; it is then cut or shaved, as hereinafter described,
and afterwards ground or pulverized in a disintegrating mill or other machine
suitable for the purpose; it is then mixed by means of sieves, for example, with
cane-sugar, or beet-sugar, in the proportions of, say, three parts of cane-sugar to
one part of grape-sugar, but these proportions may be varied to suit the demands
of trade. This process may be carried into effect by means of parts of the
apparatus hereinafter described.
According to another process I provide a cooling apparatus, which receives the
liquid glucose or grape-sugar from the vacuum-pan, and in which the grape-sugar
or glucose is agitated or caused to circulate in contact with a cooling surface
whereby the grape-sugar or glucose is cooled off and prepared for solidification.
This cooling apparatus is preferably constructed as described and shewn in the
specification of former Letters Patent dated January 28th A.D 1881 No. 386 to
which reference is here made for a more particular description of the said cooling
apparatus.
I provide a tank or bin to contain old grape-sugar or glucose in a dry pulverized
form or in a liquid state; from this tank or bin a small portion is delivered into
the cooling apparatus and mixed with the charge of fresh grape-sugar or glucoso
contained therein. This old grape-sugar is preferably employed in a dry pulverized
form and serves to hasten the solidification of the fresh grape-sugar. I also
provide a bin or receptacle containing cane-sugar or beet-sugar preferably in a
granulated or pulverized condition; the said receptacle is provided with a discharge-
spout through which a portion of its contents is discharged into the cooling vessel
and mixed with every charge of grape-sugar treated therein. The cane-sugar and
grape-sugar are preferably mixed in the cooling vessel in equal quantities, or
thereabouts, but any other suitable proportion of the ingredients may be employed.
The cane-sugar and grape-sugar are thoroughly mixed in this vessel by the operation
of the stirring or circulating mechanism, whereby the cane-sugar and grape-sugar
are thoroughly incorporated, each with the other, and caused to form a homogeneous
compound, ench particle of which contains grape-sugar and canc-sugar.. The latter
ingredient destroys the sticky or adhesive property of the grape-sugar, renders the
compound hard and dry, and hastens the solidification of the said compound.
When the mixture has assumed the consistency of thick creain, it is drawn from
the cooling vessel through the discharge spout or spouts thereof into moulds which
are placed, when filled, upon tables or supports where the material is permitted to
harden. These moulds are preferably made about 12 inches wide, 4 inches deep,
and 36 inches long. When the material has become completely hard and solid it
is taken ont of the moulds in the form of rectangular slabs of the size of the
moulds. These slabs are taken to a cutting or shaving machine by which the slabs
are comminuted or reduced to fine shavings.
A machine very well adapted for this purpose comprises a revolving cutter-load
provided with a suitable number of knives against which the slabs of saccharine
inatter are fed by an automatic feed screw. The cutter head is surrounded by a
tight casing, in which the comminuted material is collected and from which it is
discharged through a spout into a receptacle. The comminuted material passes
from this receptacle through a spout to a separating machine, which is preferably
a flat vibrating sieve, of the construction described in the specification of Letters
Patent dated the first day of March A.D. 1882 No. 995, and whereby the coarse
particles which have not been reduced to the proper degree of fineness are separated.
from the fine particles, the latter falling through the meshes of the sieve into a
receiving hopper below, while the coarse particles pass over the tail of the sieve
.

page_text: into a receptacle. A revolving bolt or other suitable separating machine whereby
the coarse particles may be separated from the fine particles may however be
employed if preferred. I also employ a disintegrating machine consisting essentially
of several circular rows of pins or beaters revolving in opposite directions in a
suitable case which is provided with a feed-opening near the centre of the machine
and with a discharge opening at its circumference. A hopper or receptacle is used
which contains granulated or pulverized cane-sugar and which is provided with a
discharge-spout controlled by a slide and leading to the feed hopper of the
disentegrating machine. The hopper which receives the material passing through
the meshes of the separating machine is also provided with a discharge-spout
leading to the feed hopper of the disintegrating mill and controlled by a slide.
The material contained in these hoppers is simultaneously discharged therefrom in
two streams which meet in the feed-hopper of the disintegrating mill and pass
together into the latter, in which both materials are thoroughly mixed, and from
which the mixture is discharged in, a continuous stream as a uniform product.
The material may be delivered directly into barrels or packages as it comes from.
the disintegrating mill; or if preferred it may be delivered into a store hopper or
bin and drawn off into barrels or packages from such hopper or bin; or it may be
run over a flat vibrating sieve, to separate the coarse particles from the fine, before
delivering it into the bins or barrels. The supply of material to the mixing
machine from the hoppers is preferably so regulated that equal parts of both
materials are at all times supplied to the said mixing machine. When so regulated
the ultimate product contains one part of glucose or grape-sugar to every three
parts of cane-sugar. This proportion may however be varied to suit the demands
of the trade. Other suitable and well known mixing or grinding machines may
be employed in place of this disintegrating mill if preferred.
The coarse material collected in the receptacle may be sold for use by con-
fectioners and for similar purposes or it may be ground in a suitable mill to the
proper degree of fineness and then added to the fine material passing through the
meshes of the separator:
'
After the blocks or slabs of grape-sugar, or of grape-sugar and cane-sugar
combined, have been reduced to shavings, it may be deemed advisable to pulverize
them in a disintegrating mill before mixing them with granulated cane-sugar; this
mixing may be afterwards effected in the said mill or in another mill running at a
slower speed.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the-Letters Patent filed
by the said William Robert Lake in the Great Seal Patent Office on the.
26th August 1882.
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE of the firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
SACCHARINE COMPOUNDS AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOR"-A communication from
abroad by Edward Wilhelm of Buffalo, New York, United States of America,
Patent Attorney.
This invention relates to the manufacture of saccharine compounds and to
apparatus therefor. The chief object is to produce dry saccharing compounds of
grape-sugar or glucose with old grape-sugar or glucose, or with cane-sugar or beet-
sugar, whereby the sticky or adhesive property of the grape-sugar is largely
neutralized.
According to the said invention the cane-sugar or beet-sugar is mixed with the
grape-sugar or glucose, preferably in the proportion of three parts of cane-sugar or
beet-sugar to one part of grape-sugar or glucose or in other proportions according
to the demands of the trade. The said invention also comprises various apparatus
employed in the manufacture of the said saccharine compounds as hereinafter set
forth.
According to one process, a quantity of dry grape-sugar or glucose, in a powdered,
scraped, ground or otherwise reduced condition, is mixed with liquid grape-sugar
or glucose, preferably in the proportion of one part of dry grape-sugar or glucose
to ten parts of liquid grape-sugar or glucose.
According to another process solid grape-sugar or glucose is cut, scraped, shaved
or otherwise reduced in any suitable manner and afterwards mixed with cano or
beet sugar granulated, ground, pulverized or otherwise reduced to a similar degree
of fineness. This process may be carried into effect by means of apparatus herein--
after described.
According to another process cane or beet sugar is mixed with liquid grape-sugar
or glucose, preferably in the proportion of three parts of cane or beet sugar to one
part of grape-sugar, or glucose; this mixture is formed into lumps, blocks, slabs
or other solid forms in any suitable manner, and disposed of to the trade in this
condition, or it may be crushed, ground, scraped, or otherwise reduced, if
preferred.
According to another process, cane or beet-sugar is mixed with liquid grape-
sugar or glucose, preferably in equal proportions, and this compound is formed into
lumps blocks, slabs or other solid forms in any suitable manner.. The solid com-
pound is then cut, scraped, ground, or otherwise reduced, and mixed with an
additional quantity of granulated ground pulverized or otherwise reduced cane or
beet sugar. The proportions of the ingredients herein stated may however be
varied according to the demands of the trade, and the use for which the product
is designed.
'In the accompanying drawings
A represents a cooling apparatus which receives the liquid glucose or grape-sugar
and in which the grape-sugar or glucose is agitated or caused to circulate in contact
with a cooling surface whereby the grape sugar or glucose is cooled and prepared
for solidification. This cooling apparatus is preferably constructed as described
and shown in the specification of former Letters. Patent dated 28th January
A.D. 1881 No 386 to which reference is here made for a more particular description
of the said cooling apparatus. Any other suitable apparatus may, however, be
used for this purposo, instead of the cooling apparatus hereinbefore described.

page_text: B represents a tank or bin to contain old grape-sugar or glucose in a dry
pulverized form. From this tank or bin a small portion of its contents is delivered
into the cooling apparatus A and mixed with the charge of liquid grape-sugar or
glucose contained therein. The pulverized grape-sugar is preferably sprinkled or
distributed over the surface of the liquid grape-sugar contained in the said cooler
by means of a shaking sieve b.
C represents a bin or receptacle containing cane-sugar or beet-sugar, preferably
in a granulated or pulverized condition.
The said bin or receptacle is provided with a discharge-spout through which.a
certain portion of its contents is discharged into the cooling vessel A. and mixed
with the charge of grape-sugar therein, as desired. The cane or beet sugar and
grape-sugar are preferably mixed in the cooling vessel A in equal quantities, or
thereabouts, but any other suitable proportion of the ingredients may be employed.
The cane or beet-sugar and grape-sugar are thoroughly mixed in the vessel A by
the operation of stirring or circulating mechanism, whereby the cane or beet sugar,
and grape-sugar, are thoroughly incorporated each with the other and caused to
form a homogeneous compound, each particle of which contains grape-sugar and
cane or beet sugar. The latter ingredient destroys the sticky or adhesive property
of the grape-sugar, renders the compound hard and dry, and hastens the solidification.
When the mixture has assumed the consistency of thick crean, it is drawn from
the cooling vessel A, through the discharge spout or spouts a thereof, into moulds d,
which latter are, when filled, placed upon tables or supports D where the compound
is permitted to solidify-These moulds are preferably made about 12 inches wide,
4 inches deep. and 36 inches long. When the compound has become completely
hard.and solid, it is taken out of the moulds in the form of rectangular slabs of the
size of the said moulds. These slabs are taken to a cutting, scraping, or shaving
machine E, by which they are comminuted or reduced to fine shavings.
A machine well adapted for this purpose comprises a revolving cutter-head
provided with a suitable number of knives e, against-which the slabs of saccharine
matter are fed by an automatic feed-screw f. The cutter-head is surrounded by a
tight casing G, in which the comminuted material is collected, and from which it is
discharged through a spout g into a receptacle H, as represented in figure 1; the
comminuted material passes from this receptacle H. through a spout h to a
separating machine 1 which is preferably a flat vibrating sieve of the construction
described in the specification of former Letters Patent dated March 1st 1882
No 995, whereby the coarse particles, which have not been reduced to the proper
degree of fineness are separated from the fine particles, the latter falling through
the meshes of the sieve into a receiving-hopper K below, while the coarse particles
pass over the tail of the sieve into a receptacle L. A revolving bolt or any other
suitable separating machine, whereby the coarse particles may be separated from
the fine particles, may however be employed, if preferred. M represents a
disintegrating machine consisting essentially of several circular rows of pins or
beaters revolving in opposite directions, in a suitable case which is provided with a
feed opening near the centre of the machine and with a discharge opening at its
circumference.
N represents a hopper or receptacle which contains granulated or pulverized
cane-sugar or beet-sugar, and which is provided with a discharge spout n (having
a regulating slide n¹) leading to the feed-hopper m of the disintegrating machine.
The hopper K, which receives the material passing through the meshes of the
separating machine I is also provided with a discharge-spout ke (having a feed-
slide k¹) leading to the feed-hopper m of the disintegrating mill.
The materials contained in the hoppers K and N are simultaneously discharged
in two streams which meet in the feed-hopper m of the disintegrating mill M, and
pass together into the latter, in which they are thoroughly mixed; the mixture is
then discharged in a continuous stream as a uniform product.
If preferred, the separating machine I, and the receptacle K, may be dispensed
with and the spout h connected directly to the disintegrating mill M.

page_text: The machine E for reducing or pulverizing the blocks or slabs in combination
with the hoppers H and N, a disintegrating mill M, and with or without a
separating machine 1, hopper K and receptacle L, may be employed in grinding
or pulverizing blocks or slabs composed solely of grape-sugar or glucose, and mixing
the same with cane or beet sugar.
The compound may be delivered directly into barrels or packages as it comes
from the disintegrating mill, or, if preferred, it may be delivered into a store-hopper
or bin and drawn off into barrels or packages from such hopper or bin, or it may
be run over a flat vibrating sieve, to separate the coarse particles from the finė,
before delivering it into the bins or barrels. The supply of material to the disin-
tegrating machine M. from the hoppers K and N is preferably so regulated that
suitable proportions of both materials are at all times supplied to the mixing
machine, so that the ultimate product shall contain one part of glucose or grape-
sugar to every three parts of cane or beet-sugar. These proportions may however
be varied to suit the demands of the trade. Other suitable and well known mixing
or grinding machines inay be employed in place of the disintegrating mill M, if
preferred. The scraped-sugar which has been collected in the receptacle H may bo
conducted into a mill P (Figure 2) which may be either a disintegrating, grinding,
or a crushing-mill of any suitable and well known construction, and whereby the
scraped sugar is further reduced to the desired degree of fineness The ground,
crushed, or disintegrated sugar passes from the mill P to the separating machine I
by which the fine particles are separated from the coarse particles. The Intter fall
into a receptacle Q and are returned by an elevator R or other suitable machinery
to the mill P in which they are re-ground. The finely ground sugar passes from
the sieve I to the disintegrator M, which is preferably rotated at a slow rate of
speed, so as to operate merely as a mixing machine; in this disintegrator the
pulverized cane or beet-sugar is mixed with the grape-sugar, as hereinbefore
described.
If preferred, however, the coarse material may be re-ground in a separate mill
suitable for the purpose and then added to the fino material which has passed
through the meshes of the separator I.
The incorporation of dry cane or beet sugar with the grape-sugar or glucose not
only renders the compound hard and dry, but also lessons the tendency of the
grape-sugar to absorb moisture from the atmosphere and thereby ferment or
turn sour. If the grape-sugar or saccharine compound is sufficiently hard and
brittle the shaving machine E may be omitted, and the sugar fed directly in blocks
or pieces to the mill P which, as before stated, may be a disintegrating grinding or
crushing mill, whereby the sugar is at once reduced to the desired- degree of
fineness.
The sugar is disposed of as it comes from the pans or moulds or it is cut, scraped
or otherwise reduced and sold in such form or, after having been so reduced it is
mixed with an additional quantity of cano or beet-sugar and sold in the latter
form, as the trade may require.
Having thus fully described the said invention as communicated to me by my
Foreign correspondent, and the manner of performing the same, I wish it understood
that I claim-
First. The herein described saccharine compounds consisting of grape-sugar or
glucose, obtained from maize or other suitable grain or material, mixed with sugar
obtained from sugar cane or beet-root, whereby the sticky or adhesive property
of the grape-sugar or glucoso is largely neutralized, substantially as set forth.
Second. The herein described process of manufacturing dry and hard grape-sugar
or glucose, which consists in mixing dry grape-sugar or glucose scraped, ground,
powdered, or otherwise reduced, with liquid grape-sugar or glucose, substantially as
set forth.
Third. The herein described method of manufacturing saccharine compounds,
which consists in mixing grape-sugar or glucose with cane-sugar or beet-sugar

page_text: before the grape-sugar or glucose has become hard or set, substantially as set
forth.
Fourth. The herein described process of manufacturing saccharine compounds,
which consists in mixing grape-sugar or glucose with cane-sugar or beet-sugar,
before the grape-sugar or glucose has become hard or set, and then forming the
mixture into blocks or other solid forms, substantially as set forth.
Fifth. The herein described process of manufacturing saccharine compounds
which consists in mixing grape-sugar or glucose with cane-sugar or beet-sugar
forming the mixture into blocks, grinding, scraping, or otherwise pulverizing the
said blocks, and then mixing a further quantity of cane-sugar or beet-sugar with
the ground, scraped, or pulverized sugar, substantially as set forth.
Sixth. The herein described process of manufacturing saccharine compounds,
which consists in mixing dry grape-sugar or glucose, scraped ground, powdered, or
otherwise reduced, and cane-sugar or beet-sugar, with liquid grape-sugar or glucose,
substantially as set forth.
Seventh. The herein described process of manufacturing saccharine compounds,
which consists in cutting, scraping, shaving, grinding, or otherwise reducing solid
grape-sugar or glucose and mixing the same with granulated, ground, pulverized,
or otherwise reduced cane or beet-sugar, substantially as set forth.
Eighth. In an apparatus for manufacturing saccharine compounds, the combina-
tion of a cooling machine A in which the grape-sugar is prepared for its solidifi-
cation, a receptacle containing dry pulverized sugar and provided with means
whereby the said sugar can be introduced into the said cooling vessel, moulds & in
which the grape-sugar is permitted to become hard, a reducing machine E whereby
the solid grape-sugar is reduced to the proper degree of fineness, a receptacle N
containing cane or beet-sugar, and a mixing machine m whereby the cane or beet-
sugar and the comminuted grape 'sugar are intimately mixed, and with or without
a separating machine I whereby the coarse material which has not been reduced to
the proper degree of fineness is separated from the fine material and a receptacle K
in which the fine material is collected, substantially as set forth.
Ninth. In an apparatus for manufacturing saccharine compounds, the combina-
tion of the reducing machine E whereby the block grape-sugar is reduced to the
proper degree of fineness, a receptacle N containing cane or beet-sugar, and a
mixing machine M. whereby the cane or beet-sugar and the comminuted grape-
sugar are intimately mixed, and with or without a separating machine I, whereby
the coarse material which has not been reduced to the proper degree of fineness is
separated from the fine material, and a receptacle K in which the fine material is
collected, substantially as set forth.
Tenth. In an apparatus for manufacturing saccharine compounds, the combina-
tion of a scraping or shaving machine E, whereby the solid grape-sugar or glucose
is reduced to shavings and a mill P whereby the shavings are further reduced to
the desired degree of fineness, substantially as set forth.
Eleventh. The apparatus combined and arranged to operate substantially as
hereinbefore set forth for manufacturing saccharine compounds.
In witness whereof I the said William Robert Lake have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Twenty sixth day of August in the year of Our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty two.