Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Confectionery.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Nov., 1896
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Confectionery.
I, DANIEL MOREY HOLMES, of 58 City Road, in the City of London, Inventor,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of confectionery,
more particularly to a means of polishing chocolate goods. Hitherto these goods
have been usually polished by hand. According to my invention I arrange one
or more mechanically operated brushes, which may be either rotary, reciprocating,
or be otherwise moved. The plate, tray or paper, upon which the chocolate goods
are placed to cool or dry, after they have been coated and are in proper condition
is passed beneath these mechanically operated brushes, which are arranged and
adjusted, so as to effectively polish the chocolates on all sides.
in one construction of these brushes I take a spindle and upon this I arrange
discs of cotton or other suitable material fabric alternating with smaller discs
of cardboard or the like, the whole forming a rotary and flexible brush, the length
of which may vary as desired. I prefer to employ two such brushes arranged to
be rotated in opposite directions by suitable mechanical means. If preferred I
may equally well construct these brushes of soft hair, bristles or the like, or may
make them flat, curved, or otherwise shaped, and adapt them to be moved either
transversely or longitudinally or with a combination of these movements, over
the goods as they pass beneath. I prefer to arrange the mechanism so that the
goods to be polished may be fed intermittently beneath the brushes, though I
may equally well arrange them to be fed through continuously.
The above described arrangements for polishing chocolate goods may either
form a separate machine, or may be constructed as an attachment to the machine,
in which the goods receive their coating of chocolate, the brushes being accord-
ingly driven either from the main-shafting, or through suitable gearing, bands,
or the like, from the other machine, to which it is attached. Suitable means
may be provided for moving, through the apparatus, the trays, carrying the goods
to be polished.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to the Manufacture of Confectionery.
I, DANIEL MOREY HOLMES, of 58 City Road, in the City of London, Inventor,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is
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page_text: to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:―
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of confectionery,
more particularly to a means of polishing chocolate goods. Hitherto these goods
have been usually polished by hand. According to my invention I arrange one
or more mechanically operated brushes, which may be either rotary, reciprocating,
or be otherwise moved. The plate, tray or paper, upon which the chocolate goods
are placed to cool or dry, after they have been coated and are in proper condition,
is passed beneath these mechanically operated brushes, which are arranged and
adjusted, so as to effectively polish the chocolates on all sides.
In one construction of these brushes I take a spindle and upon this I arrange
discs of cotton or other suitable material or fabric aiternating with smaller discs
of cardboard or the like, the whole forming a rotary and flexible brush, the length
of which may vary as desired. I prefer to employ two such brushes arranged to
be rotated in opposite directions by suitable mechanical means. If preferred I
may equally well construct these brushes of soft hair, bristles or the like, or may
make them flat, curved, or otherwise shaped, and adapt them to be moved either
transversely--or longitudinally or with a combination of these movements, over
the goods as they pass beneath. I prefer to arrange the mechanism so that the
goods to be polished inay be fed intermittently beneath the brushes, though I
may equally well arrange them to be fed through continuously.
The above described arrangements for polishing chocolate goods may either
form a separate machine, or may be constructed as an attachment to the machine,
in which the goods receive their coating of chocolate, the brushes being accord-
ingly driven either from the main-shafting, or through suitable gearing, bands,
or the like, from the other machine, to which it is attached. Suitable means
may be provided for moving, through the apparatus, the trays, carrying the goods
to be polished.
One form of polishing machine, constructed according to this invention, is
illustrated in the accompanying drawings, of which
Figure 1 is an elevation of the machine partly in section.
Figure 2 a plan of the machine shown in Figure 1, and
Figure 3 an end elevation of the same machine.
Like letters refer to like parts throughout the drawings.
In these drawings A is an upright frame or standard, having a leg or foot A',
provided with bolts a for securing it to the frame of some other machine such as
that in which the goods are coated with chocolate. The upright A is slotted
at A³ to receive the boss B' of a transverse plate or piece B as shown; the boss B₁
being. drilled and tapped to receive the adjusting screw C which is rotatable in
but does not engage with, the projection A of the upright A.
Immediately below the projection A2 is fitted a collar C¹ on the screw C to
afford purchase for the latter, when rotated in such a direction as to force the
plate B downwards; the cheese head C2 serving a similar purpose when the plate B
is being raised.
A bolt B serves to lock the plate B in any position to which it may have been
adjusted, an extension A of the slot A being provided for its reception and to
allow of its motion.
The upright A fits into a groove or recess B3 in the plate B, the sides B of the
recess serving to guide the motion of the plate B.
There are two such plates B each carried by an upright A, and placed so as to
cppose one another, as shown, and carrying between them two spindles I),
journalled in the plates B. Upon these spindles D are mounted alternately discs
of cotton D', and discs of cardboard D2, the latter being of smaller diameter than
the former. I do not confine myself to discs of cotton and cardboard or of any
other material, but may employ discs of any suitable materials provided they are
alternately hard and soft, the soft being of such a character that it will polish
without scratching the gods. Neither is it essential that the two materials

page_text: should occur alternately, by individual discs or pieces, but may occur in alternate
groups of hard and of soft materials.
By moving the plates B up or down I can adjust the height of the brushes to
suit the various styles of confectionery to be polished. A motion of rotation is
given to the brushes by belts applied to the pulleys D³ and driven from an inde-
pendent source of power or from the machine to which the polishing machine
is attached. Coned or stepped pulleys or other suitable means may be employed
to vary the speed of the spindles D which rotate preferably in opposite directions.
Or power may be supplied to one only of the spindles which effects the rotation
of the other through the medium of any suitable gearing, or the spindles may be
driven by hand.
I may obviously also vary the construction of the supports for the plates B, or
the means for raising and lowering the plates, or the construction of the plates B
without departing from the spirit of this invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. In a machine for polishing confectionery the combination of a vertically-
adjustable plate or carrier such as B, and one or more buffing-devices journalled
therein for the purpose described.
2. In a machine for polishing confectionery a brush or buff comprising discs
or pieces of hard and of soft materials on a bar or spindle substantially as and
for the purpose described.
3. The combination with a machine for the manufacture of confectionery of a
polishing-attachment or appliance such as described.
4. In a machine for polishing confectionery a pair of brushes or buffs arranged
to rotate in opposite directions substantially as and for the purpose described.
5. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete
polishing machine substantially as described and illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 3
of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 10th day of August 1897
DANIEL M. HOLMES.
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicant.