Apparatus for Candying or Crystallising Fruit and Confectionery and similar purposes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Jan., 1899-Accepted, 6th May, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Candying or Crystallising Fruit and Confectionery
and similar purposes. ;
We, Jacob HOFFMANN and Max WALTER, both of 6, Schwabenheimerstrasse,
Kreuznach, in the German Empire, Manufacturers of Confectionery, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The candying or crystallising of fruits and confectionery is effected by placing
the articles to be treated into a flat receptacle and pouring sugar solution over them.
After the latter has acted on the articles for some time the solution is drawn off.
For this purpose the flat vessels are usually placed obliquely against a vertical
wall or other support and the liquor is allowed to flow out of the receptacle.
This invention consists in apparatus to facilitate this operation and to permit the
simultaneous emptying of any number of such receptacles, thus effecting a saving
of time and cost, and ensuring increased cleanliness.
In order that this invention may be the better understood, I now proceed to
describe the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the
letters and figures marked thereon. Like letters refer to like parts in the various
figures.
Figure 1 is a front view of the apparatus.
Figures 2&3 are side views at different periods.
Figure 4 is a view of a frame removed from the apparatus for the reception of
a candying or crystallising receptacle.
The apparatus consists of four posts or standards a b, a 61. The posts a
and bare connected together by a number of bars c of hoop iron or other suitable
material, and the posts a and b are connected together in a similar manner. The
bars e serve as bearings for axles f which have each a lever e at one end. The
axles carry one or more frames which have each a device in front. The
receptacles from which the liquor is to be drawn are provided with any convenient
closing device such as a tap or valve adapted to be loosened which is opened when
desired on the frames g. The free ends of the levers e are provided with pins and
connected by a rod which latter can be raised and lowered by a bent lever k
adapted to be locked in a desired position for instance by a toothed segment and
ratchet lever m.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-
After the candying or crystallising receptacles », of which only one is shown in the
drawings, have been filled with the articles and sugar solution, they are placed
on the horizontal frames g. Preferably, the articles which are to be subjected to
the sugar solution for the longest period are placed first. When the sugar solution
is to be drawn off, the closing devices o of the candying or crystallising vessels n
are opened and the lever is operated, whereby the frames and the vessels n
thereon are moved into the required oblique position as shown in Figure 3. When
the sugar solution has run off, the candying or crystallising vessels are closed again
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page_text: and removed from the frames, which are returned into their horizontal position
to be ready for the reception of new receptacles.
The oblique position of the frames g may of course be obtained without the use
of the lever by the operation of the connecting rod by hand or by any other suit-
able arrangement. The manner of fastening and the material of the exits h are
immaterial.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I; declare that what I
claim is:
Apparatus for drawing off the liquid from candying and crystallising receptacles
and for similar purposes in which are arranged a number of frames adapted to be
tilted for the reception of candying or crystallising vessels.
FELL & JAMES,
Agents for the Applicants.