Improvements in the Manufacture of Biscuits.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 24th July, 1894-Accepted, 25th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Biscuits.
We JOHN VICARS, THOMAS VICARS and JOHN VICARS the younger, all of
56 Seel Street, Liverpool in the County of Lancaster Engineers, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention relates to the manufacture of biscuits havings ornamental designs
thereon. Hitherto the scope of such designs has been interfered with owing to the
necessity of having perforations through the biscuits to ensure proper baking,
besides owing to the disposal of the said designs about the perforations and their
limited extent it not unfrequently happens that the ornamenting bakes out or
disappears during baking.
Now the object of our invention is to manufacture a biscuit in which the
perforations and design may be combined so that each assists the other and more
delicate and ornamental designs may be used so as to produce more elegant and lace
like biscuits.
In carrying our invention into effect we impress all or any portion of the designs
completely through the biscuits so that the designs themselves form baking
perforations and are shown readily through the biscuits when held up, the light
thus giving them a lace-like effect and effectually preventing the baking out of the
ornament.
To produce the biscuits similarly shaped dies are used in the usual way.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Biscuits.
We JOHN VICARS, THOMAS VICARS, and JOHN VICARS the younger, all of
56 Seel Street Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Engineers, 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 invention relates to the manufacture of biscuits having impressed ornamental
designs thereon. Hitherto the scope of such designs has been interfered with
owing to the necessity of having perforations through the biscuits to ensure proper
baking, moreover on account of the necessity of disposing the said impressed
designs in the limited space between or about the perforations it not unfrequently
happens that the ornamenting bakes out, that is, disappears during baking.
Now the object of our invention is to manufacture a biscuit in which the orna-
mental design is formed by a combination of perforations and impressions so that
each assist the other in the formation of the desired design or pattern and more
delicate and ornamental designs may be used so as to produce more elegant and
lace like biscuits; or if desired, the ornament may be so designed that all of it may
be cut through the biscuit.
In carrying our invention into effect, we impress all or any portion of the design
or pattern completely through the biscuit so that baking perforations are formed
by the designs themselves which show readily through the biscuits when held up

page_text: to the light. Biscuits produced as above set forth, have a lacelike appearance,
and the ornamental design or pattern is effectually prevented from baking out.
In order that my invention may be readily understood, I have appended a sheet
of drawings, where Fig. 1 is a section of a die suitable for the manufacture of
biscuits under our invention, the parts marked a would pass quite through the
.biscuit, whilst the parts 6 would only make impressions on the biscuit in the usual
way. c is the usual pusher for removing the biscuit from the die.
Fig. 2 is illustrative of a biscuit made in accordance with our invention.
a represents perforatio passing completely through the biscuit, and are made
by the portions a of the die Fig. 1. 6 represents marks impressed on the biscuits
and are made by the parts b of the die Fig. 1.
If desired, portions of the faces of b in the die might be so far sunk, that portions
of the biscuit would rise above the general surface.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
First. The improvements in the manufacture of biscuits by making the part or
whole of the ornamental design completely through the biscuit, substantially as
and for the purpose set forth.
Second. Manufacturing biscuits by means of dies having parts for producing
ornamental designs which pass completely through the biscuits substantially as set
forth.
Dated L 11
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