Improvements in Candy or Confectionery Shaping Machines.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 29th July, 1886.
Complete Left, 26th Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 27th May, 1887.
Improvements in Candy or Confectionery Shaping Machines.
1 GUSTAVUS CHARLES SNYDER of 350 East 32nd Street, New York, United States
of America, Mechanic, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved automatic machine
for shaping American candy or confectionery into any desired form.
The invention consists of a sizing device, of a series of interchangable rollers, of
which one is provided with rotary cutters, of a device for automatically opening and
closing the hopper and the rollers, and of a device for keeping the candy or
confectionery in motion, after it leaves the shaping device, until it has cooled off.
The invention also consists in various parts and details and combinations of the same.
The sizing device consists of a pair of grooved rollers mounted in supports at the
upper part of a frame in which the various parts of the apparatus are arranged.
These rollers are driven by gearing from the main shaft of the machine and the hot
candy passes between them and is given a cylindrical form thereby.
The upper ends of the standards of the main frame are provided with detachable
lids which, in conjunction with the upper ends of the standards of the frame form
bearings for a shaft carrying a roller or rollers and rotary cutters, and a second
shaft carrying a roller or rollers having annular grooves is mounted to rotate in
boxes sliding in recesses formed between the lids, and the upper ends of the
standards.
Centrally below the two shafts there is a shaft carrying a roller or rollers, also
having annular recesses and mounted to rotate in suitable bearings in the standards.
All three of these shafts pass through slots in a vertically sliding arm which is
moved up and down by means of cams at each end of a slowly rotating shaft.
Other cams are placed on the latter shaft, and each cam operates the lower arm
of a bent lever pivoted to one of the standards the upper arm of the said lever
being attached to one side of a hopper beneath the sizing device. A spring holds
the lower end of the lever in contact with the cam. The hopper is also provided
with the stationary side which is supported by the brackets attached to the standards.
A chute is placed between the standards directly below the rollers and opens at
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page_text: its lower end upon a shaking device, which consists of a platform suspended by
cords or wires attached to the ceiling or other support and provided in the middle
of its under side with a square box in which revolves a bent arm attached to a vertical
shaft which receives a slow rotary motion from the main driving shaft by a train
of gear wheels or by belts and pulleys.
The operation is as follows:-
The machine is set in motion by imparting a rotary motion to the main driving
shaft, which rotates the sizing device, the shafts, and the cams and operates the
shaking device. A lump or mass of candy, which is hot and very pliable, is fed
between the sizing rollers, which give the candy a cylindrical shape and deliver it
to the closed hopper, the side of which opens at a certain time by the action of
the lever and the cam, whereby the cylindrical roll of confectionery drops upon the
rollers of which the one roller is advanced toward the other pair of rollers by the
action of the cam, which is at this time pushing the slotted arm upward and thereby
causing the roller to move inward, as the shaft passes through an inclined slot in
the side of the arm, the rotation of two of the rollers, shaping the confectionery
to their respective forms, while the third roller assists and at the same time supports
the confectionery. As soon as the cam has reached its uppermost position, the
rollers are in close contact, so that the rotary knives cut the cylindrical stick of
candy into as many pieces as there are knives. The further motion of the cam causes
the arm to drop, whereby one of the rollers is moved laterally away from the others.
The bearing boxes in which this laterally moving shaft rotates, slide in the recesses
formed between the lids, and the upper ends of the standards.
The shaped confectionery drops from the rollers upon the chute from which it
rolls down upon the shaking platform on which it is kept in constant motion by
the action of the revolving arm. When the confectionery becomes cooled, it is hard
and can be removed from the platform.
Any desired shape may be given to the candy after it has been formed into a
cylindrical roll by the sizing device by means of the rollers, which have to
correspond with each other, into the desired shape. The plain cylindrical rollers
form the candy into sticks of a length equal to the distance between two cutters,
but the form of the rollers may be varied.
The cutters may be fastened to the shaft or to the rollers themselves.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Candy or Confectionery Shaping Machines.
I, GUSTAVUS CHARLES SNYDER of 350 E. 32nd Street New York United States
of America, Mechanic, 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:—
The object of my Invention is to provide a new and improved automatic machine
for shaping American candy or confectionery into any desired form.
The Invention consists of a sizing device, of a series of interchangeable rollers of
which one is provided with rotary cutters, of a device for automatically opening and
closing the hopper and the rollers, and of a device for keeping the candy or
confectionery in motion after it leaves the shaping device until it has cooled off.
The Invention also consists in various parts and details and combinations of the
same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this
specification in which figure 1 is a side elevation of my improvement. Figure 2 is a
transverse vertical section of the same on the line - figure 1 looking in the direction
of the arrows xx. Figure 3 is a similar view of the same on the line x-x,
Figure 1, looking in'the direction or the arrows y¹y¹ Figure 4 is a bottom view of the
shaking device. Figure 5 is a sectional plan view of two shaping rollers of a modified
form. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the Figures.
On a suitable frame A is mounted the main driving shaft B carrying the driving
pulleys B and provided with a grooved pulley C which. is connected by a belt C with
a pulley C operating the sizing device D which is provided with a shaft D¹ to which
is secured the said grooved pulley C and which shaft is mounted on a frame D'
attached to the main frame A. To the shaft D' is secured a gear wheel D³ which
meshes into the gear wheel D secured to the shaft D' mounted on the frame D'
directly above the shaft D'. Each of the shafts D¹ and D' is provided with a grooved
roller De between the grooves of which passes the hot candy, which is given a
cylindrical form by the said grooved rollers D°. The upper ends of the standards A'
of the main frame A, are provided with detachable lids E which, in conjunction with
the upper ends of the standards A¹ form bearings for the shaft F carrying the roller
or rollers F¹ provided at suitable intervals with rotary_cutters F³, the shaft F being
rotated from the main shaft B by the pulleys F and F and the belt F³. A shaft G
carrying a roller or rollers G³, having, at suitable intervals, annular grooves G³, is
mounted to rotate in boxes sliding in the recesses E' formed between the lids E and
the upper ends of the standards A'. The shaft G is provided with a pulley G³ which
is connected by a belt G with the pulley G' secured to the main driving shaft B.

page_text: Centrally below the shafts F and G, the shaft H carrying the roller or rollers H'
having annular recesses H2 is mounted to rotate in suitable bearings in the standards A',
and is provided with a pulley H³ which is connected by a belt H' with a pulley H
attached to the main driving shaft B. A slow rotary motion is given to a shaft I
placed centrally below the shaft H and mounted in suitable bearings in the standards A
from the main driving shaft B, by means of a train of gear wheels, or by pulleys
and belts J, of suitable construction and arrangement. The shaft I is provided near
the inside of each standard A with a cam K which operates a vertically sliding arm L
having its bearings partly in the keeper A² attached to the main frame A and partly
on the shafts F and H which pass through the vertical slots L' formed in the arm L.
The shaft G passes through an inclined slot L' formed in the arm L. A second,
smaller, cam M is placed on the shaft I near each of the cams K, and each cam M
operates the lower arm of a bent lever N pivoted at N¹ to one of the standards A, the
upper arm of the said lever N being attached to one side-0¹ of the hopper O. A
spring N holds the lower end of the lever Nin contact with the cam M. The hopper O
is also provided with the stationary side 0' which is supported by the brackets 0³
attached to the standards A. A chute P is placed between the standards A directly
below the rollers F¹, G₁, and H', and opens at its lower end upon the shaking device,
which consists of a platform Q' suspended by cords or wires Q2 attached to the ceiling
or other support, and provided in the middle of its underside with a square box Q³ in
which revolves a bent arm Q attached to the vertical shaft Q which receives a slow
rotary motion from the main driving shaft B by a train of gear wheels, or by belts
and pulleys S.
The operation is as follows:-The machine is set in motion by imparting a rotary
motion to the main driving shaft B which rotates the sizing device D, the shafts F, G,
and H and the cams K and M and operates the shaking device Q. A lump or mass
of candy, which is hot and very pliable, is fed between the sizing rollers De which
give the candy a cylindrical shape, and deliver it to the closed hopper O, the side O'
of which opens at a certain time by the action of the lever N and the cam M, whereby
the cylindrical roll of candy drops upon the rollers F¹, G', and H' of which the roller G¹
is advanced towards the rollers F and H' by the action of the cam K which is, at this
time, pushing the arm L upward and thereby causing the roller G¹ to move inward,
as the shaft G passes through the inclined slot L' in the side of the arm L the rotation
of the rollers F and G₁ shaping the candy to their respective forms, while the roller H¹
assists and at the same time supports the candy. As soon as the cam K has reached
its uppermost position, as shewn in figure 2, then the roller G¹ is in close contact with
the rollers F and H¹, so that the rotary knives F enter the annular grooves G³
and H2 and also cut the cylindrical stick of candy into as many pieces as there are
rotary knives F2. The further motion of the cam K causes the arm L to drop into the
position shewn in figure 3 whereby the roller G¹ is moved away from the rollers F¹
and H by means of the shaft G passing through the inclined slot L³ of the said arm.
The bearing boxes in which the shaft G rotates, slide in the recesses E¹ formed between
the lids E and the upper ends of the standards A'. The shaped confectionery drops
from the rollers F G and H¹ upon the chute P from which it rolls down upon the
shaking platform Q1 on which it is kept in constant motion by the action of the
revolving arm Q striking alternately against each of the four sides of the square
box Q When the confectionery becomes cooled it is hard, and can be removed
from the platform Q¹. Any desired shape may be given to the candy, after it
has been formed into a cylindrical roll by the sizing device D, by means of the
rollers F¹ and G₁ which have to correspond with each other, into the desired shape.
The plain cylindrical rollers shewn in figure 1, form the candy into sticks of a length
equal to the distance between two cutters I, but the form of the rollers may be
varied, as shewn; for instance, in figure 5, into rollers having such a shape as to
produce the candy R. The annular sharp edges S₁ of these rollers cut the candy at
one place and the cutters F' make a second cut in the candy. The cutters F' may
be fastened to the shaft F, or to the rollers themselves.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In a candy or confectionery shaping machine, a rotating roller provided at
suitable intervals with rotary knives, and a rotating roller having annular recesses, in
combination with a roller having annular recesses and mounted to rotate in boxes
which slide laterally, substantially as shewn and described.
2. In a candy or confectionery shaping machine, a rotating roller provided at
suitable intervals with rotary knives, a rotating roller having annular recesses, and a
laterally-sliding roller, in combination with an automatically opening and closing
hopper, substantially as shewn and described.
3. In a candy or confectionery shaping machine, a rotating roller provided at
suitable intervals with rotary knives, a rotating roller having annular recesses and a
laterally sliding roller having annular recesses, in combination with a sizing device,
and an automatically opening and closing hopper, substantially as shewn and
described.
4. In a candy or confectionery shaping machine, a rotating roller provided at
suitable intervals with rotary knives, a rotating roller having annular recesses and a
laterally sliding roller having annular recesses, in combination with a sizing device,
an automatically opening and closing hopper and a rocking platform, substantially as
shewn and described.
5. In a candy or confectionery shaping machine, a rotating roller provided at
suitable intervals with rotary knives, and a rotating roller having annular recesses,
both rollers being rotated from the main driving shaft in combination with a roller
having annular recesses, vertically-sliding arms each having! inclined slot through
which passes the shaft of the said roller, and cams operating the said arms and
attached to a shaft operated from the main shaft, substantially as shewn and described.
6. In a candy or confectionery shaping machine, the rollers De of the sizing device,
the hopper O, the shafts F, G, and H, the rollers F' G¹ and H³, and the rotary
knives F, in combination with the shaft I, the cams K. and M, the vertically sliding
arm L having the vertical slots L' and the inclined slot L, the bent lever N attached
to one side of the hopper O, and the spring N³, substantially as shewn and described.
7. In a candy or confectionery shaping machine, the platform Q', the square box Q'
and the cords or wires Q' in combination with the rotating shaft Q, and the bent
arm Q, substantially as shewn and described.
8. In a candy or confectionery shaping machine, the shafts F, G, and H, the
rollers F, G, and H¹ and the rotary cutters F, in combination with the vertically-
sliding arm L having the vertical slots L' and the inclined slot L³, and the cams K
mounted on the slowly rotating shaft I, substantially as shewn and described.
9. In a candy or confectionery shaping machine, the shafts F, G, and H, the
rollers F, G, and H, and the rotary knives F', in combination with the vertically-
sliding arms L having the vertical slots L' and the inclined slots L and the cams K
mounted on the slowly rotating shaft I, the pulleys F and F, G, and G* and H*
and H, and the belts F, G and H, substantially as shewn and described.
G. C. SNYDER.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.