Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Dividing Bread or like Matters and Applying Butter or like Matters thereto.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Sept., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 5th June, 1891-Accepted, 11th July, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for 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 to
be as follows:-
This invention relates to means or apparatus for superseding hand cutting and
buttering of bread and to substitute division and spreading by such mechanism
insuring cleanliness, economy and rapidity.
In carrying out my invention I employ a suitable stand and framework supporting
a guide-way for a slide, on which slide is mounted the knife which I prefer to mount
so as to act on the bread at an angle by inclined direction at which the blade is set
in the slide, the slide also carries a box or receptacle for the butter, a suitable
aperture in the slide communicating with the butter chamber admitting of the butter
passing out and being spread on the face of the loaf as it is passed by the slide the
butter chamber has a moveable back acted upon by spring or weight pressure. In
the butter chamber and projecting at an adjustable distance through or towards
the exit opening for butter is a roller preferably corrugated, or grooved and
adapted to rotate at a greater surface speed than the slide so as not alone to press
the butter to the bread but to smear or spread it and a blade or surface which
may be adjustably held or supported by spring aids this operation. A guard plate
may advantageously be applied in the butter box to avoid any unnecessary contact
of roller and bulk of butter and another guard plate adjustably regulated determines
the size of aperture for the exuding butter and consequently the thickness of
spread. The slide is in part moveable adjustably so as to regulate thickness of
slice cut such as by a screw adjustment and winch handle causing the movable part
of the slide to move in inclined guides more or less to the plane of the knife's
travel. The back slide of the butter box may have inclined projections adapted to
gather the butter towards the middle of the box and the exit aperture. A rack on
the frame engaging a pinion or other device on the slide may give rotation to the
butter roller only as it passes over the bread and not otherwise being at rest when
the following knife is cutting and during the return stroke. Band gearing may
however be used or equivalent means.
Instead of bread and butter the matters divided and spread may be other such
articles as require like preparation.
The apparatus may be operated by steam or other power.
If manually operated a handle on the slide may be grasped or the reciprocation
may be by a lever or wheel and handle.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for 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
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 means or apparatus for superseding hand cutting and

page_text: eflecting such division of the bread or more rigid matter and spreading of the
butter or plastic matter thereon, so as to effect These operations with cleanliness,
economy and rapidity.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 indicates by front view Fig. 2 by plan view Fig. 3 by end view one
arrangement of the apparatus adapted for carrying out the invention.
Fig. 4 shews a transverse section and Fig. 5a front view of the buttering
rollers of Fig. 1, separately.
Fig. 6 shews a front view and Fig. 7 an end view of the guillotine knife for
severing the bread or cake into slices separately.
Fig. 8 shows a front view and Fig. 9 an end view of frame-work and guide
ways in which the knife & reciprocates.
Fig. 10 shows a front view and Fig. 11 an end view of the frame or plate
having formed in it the aperture through which the butter spreading rolls protrude.
Fig. 12 shews a vertical sectional view of the buttering device and gearing
for operating the same and Fig. 13 is a detail view of the double ratchet gear for
working the buttering roll when these rolls are used to butter both in the stroke
and return.
.
Fig. 14 shows a transverse sectional view of a modified arrangement of
buttering mechanism in which three rolls are arranged in the box to co-operate
together to sprend the butter on the bread.
Fig. 14" shews another modification of the like mechanism shewn by the last
figure.
a indicates the stand or framework which may be attached to any suitable table
or support and carrying a top guide way a' and a bottom guide way a³ for the
slide to reciproente in, and on this slide is mounted the knife which I prefer
to mount in the horizontally reciprocating slide so as to act on the bread presented
to it, at an angle, owing to the angle at which this knife is set in the slide. This
slide also carries the box or receptacle for buttere formed by the two side
walls, upper & under walls and back pressing plate On the side
walls c',
are respectively mounted the two checks or plates e, which serve to
direct the butter to the nip of the rolls d, formed with corrugated surfaces which
deliver the butter in a film of adjusted quantity on to the bread.
l
In Figs. 14 and 15 the butter is delivered by the rolls d, d' but such delivery
is aided by the third roller & and any accumulation of butter against the edge
runner plate e is prevented.
In some cases a suitable aperture in the slide communicating with the butter
chamber admits of the butter passing out and being spread on the bread, by the
aid of a single roller co-operating with adjacent edges of the aperture. The roller
being suitably adjusted in speed of rotation so as not alone to press the butter but
to smear it on the brend in even layers.
The box is connected to the slide through the intervention of the plate in
which is formed the opening for the rollers d d to protrude through and the
plate being connected, by adjustable screws and ; and nuts and handle
nut fat one end engaging the frame ; and by the spring plate above,
engaging a serew stem and nut on the frame, the frames and are connected
the adjustment of the distance between the respective planes of their surfacos
regulating the thickness of slice of bread or cake cut. is an inclined guide on
plate which embraces a stem projecting from the plate band so as to inaintain
parallelism between the surfaces of and
is the grasping handle for moving the slide is a stop piece having a
rubber or spring pad and secured to the slide to serve by coming in contact
with a removable stop a³ on the frame a to control the travel of the slide & in that
direction.

page_text: The press plate in the box c is kept pressed against the butter in that box and
the butter against the rolls d, d by means of springs c, c' connecting the arms c
affixed to with hooks e secured to the plate f. The axis of the one roller d is
here shewn (Fig. 5) as being borne in adjustable bearings d³, d' capable of being
drawn and held in position so as to draw and hold the roller d in closer or more
distant proximity to the roller d' and by the size of outlet so provided to regulate
the thickness of the stream of butter. d, d' are screws for controlling the move-
ments of the bearings d³, d, aided by the distending spring d.
The pressure may be pressed forward or inwards, on the butter by a spring held
to its work by a hinged bar as shewn by dotted lines in Fig. 14 the hinge being
connected to one wall c' and the lock for the other end of the bar to the other
opposite wall.
The butter rollers d, dare driven by means of a toothed rack * affixed on the
upper edge of the fixed frame a and so that as the slide reciprocates the tooth
wheel engages those teeth a' and rotation is caused thereto. This wheel g is
formed in one with the ratchet wheel g' and this compound wheel is mounted loosely
on the axis of the roller d' on which axis is mounted and fixed the collar de
carrying the disengageable click for engaging the rack teath of the wheel g¹.
The teeth of the wheel g engage the teeth of the wheel h formed in one with the
rack toothed wheel mounted loosely on the axis 10 of the roller d, on which is
mounted the collar carrying the disengageable click d for engagement with the
teeth in order to communicate motion to the roller d.
In Fig. 12 I have shewn a gauge board or sliding plate which is held from
slipping down by friction spring and stop and is adapted to be slidden up and
down in the box c to determine at what height butter shall be exuded from the
slit between the rolls, this board being at foot, see Fig. 14 in plan, shaped to
approximately fit but not touch the rolls, actual contact being prevented by contact
with the guides c', c. In the arrangement shewn by Figures 12, 13 and 14 and 14*
the rollers and rotate in a converging direction towards the bread to spread
the butter whilst the third roller rotates with the opposite side of the roll so as
to aid in returning any excess of butter to the box c and prevent accumulation
between the bread and the edge of the slide f. is a stop or abutinent for the
side of the loaf during cutting and is the floor or support for the same.
indicates the board onto which the buttered and severed slice of bread is
delivered. Weights may actuate the press plate ³.
By throwing out of gearing with its rack wheel one of the clicks d³, or d¹³, the
operation of one of the rollers may be suspended when the butter roll is not to
operate, and cutting only is desired.
By means of the double clicks din Fig. 13 the buttering may take place both
in the stroke and the return of the slide or both may be suspended from operation
but I find the action of the butter roll in one direction to be sufficient.
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: A guillotine or other like knife apparatus for severing bread or like matters
into slices in combination with mechanism for holding, supplying and spreading
butter or similarly spreadable matter on the bread or like severable matter
substantially as set forth.
2:-The combination with the slide of a bread cutting, or cake slicing mechanism,
of a butter, or like matter, applying device, whereby the applied matter may be
spread over the surface of the sliced matter before severance substantially as set
forth.
3-The combination and arrangement of a reservoir for butter, or other matter
to be spread, a press plate therein, actuated by pressing means, and a roller, or
rollers, operating through a suitable opening in said reservoir to deliver the spread
matter in regulated quantity actuated by suitable gearing substantially as set forth.

page_text: 4-The combination or arrangement and use of apparatus constructed and
operating for the division of bread or like matters and the application thereto of
butter or like matters in regulated quantities substantially as set forth in respect
of Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11 or the modifications thereof Figures 12,
13, 14 & 14*.
-The butter, or like matter, distributing mechanismu substantially as and for
the purpose hereinbefore set forth and shown in the drawings.
Dated the 5th day of June 1891.
WM. BROOKES & SON,