Year: 1885

page_text: We JOHN VICARS the Elder, THOMAS VICARS and JOHN VICARS the Younger, all
of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster Engineers do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows :-
The invention relates to breaks or apparatus for treating dough as it comes from
the mixing or kneading machines so as to break or reduce by reverse rolling the
masses of dough to homogeneous sheets.
Hitherto such machines have been very complicated in construction and noisy in
action. The object of our invention is to remedy these disadvantages.
For the above purpose we provide a driving shaft with a sleeve free to rotate
thereon, and drive one of the roller shafts by means of an externally toothed wheel
on the said driving shaft in gear with an internally toothed wheel on the roller
shaft. We also gear the sleeve to the said roller shaft by means of an externally
toothed wheel on the said sleeve the teeth of which take into the teeth of an
externally toothed wheel on the roller shaft above mentioned or instead of the
internally toothed wheel two externally toothed wheels are used. All the gearing
may be at one side of the apparatus or part at one side and part at the other. The
second roller is carried in movable bearings, and is geared with the driven roller by
means of linked intermediate wheels. The frame and carrying table is of any
suitable construction.

page_text: Improvements in and Connected with Breaks for
Treating Dough.
Wė JOHN VICARS the Elder, THOMAS VICARS and JOHN VICARS the Younger, all
of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature
of the said 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 breaks, or apparatus for treating dough as it comes from
the mixing or kneading machines, so as to break or reduce by reverse rolling the
inasses of dough to homogeneous sheets.
Hitherto such machines have been very complicated in construction and noisy in
action. The object of our invention is to remedy these disadvantages.
For the above purpose we provide a driving shaft with a sleeve free to rotate
thereon and drive one of the roller shafts, by means of an externally toothed wheel
on the said driving shaft, in gear with an internally toothed wheel on the roller
.shaft: We also gear the sleeve to the said roller shaft by means of an externally
toothed wheel on the said sleeve, the teeth of which take into the teeth of an
externally toothed wheel on the roller shaft above mentioned or instead of the
internally toothed wheel, two externally toothed wheels are used.
All the gearing
may be at one side of the apparatus or part at one side and part at the other. The
second roller is carried on movable bearings and is geared with the driven roller by
means of linked intermediate wheels. The frame and carrying table is of any
suitable construction.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1. is a vertical section and fig. 2. an elevation of a break constructed in
accordance with our invention. a. driving shaft b. sleeve free to rotate thereon
and drive the roller shaft c. by means of the externally toothed wheel d.
e. externally toothed wheel on the shaft a. gearing with the internally toothed
wheel f. on the said roller shaft a. g. roller on the shaft c. h. roller on the
shaft . The shaft i. is carried on movable bearings j. which are raised and
lowered by gear k. of usual construction to allow of the distance between the
rollers being varied. l. m. n. o toothed wheels gearing the roller shaft c with the
roller shaft . The toothed wheels l. m. are carried on movable bearings to allow
of their being adjusted to gear correctly when the top roller is raised or lowered.
p. pulley fast on the shaft a. q. pulley fast on the sleeve b. r. loose pulley.
According as the driving strap is moved on to the pulley p. or the pulley q. or
allowed to remain on the pulley r. the rollers g. h. will rotate in one direction, or
the other, or remain stationary.
Fig. 3. is a vertical section and Fig. 4 an elevation of a modified construction of
break in which the internal toothed wheelf is replaced by two externally toothed
wheels f¹ f. All the other parts are the same as those described in connection
with figs. 1 and 2. and the same letters of reference refer to like parts.

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
First. The improvements in breaks for treating dough substantially as herein
set forth.
Second. In Breaks for treating dough. The combination of a driving shaft, a
sleeve free to rotate thereon, an externally and an internally toothed wheel and
two externally toothed wheels substantially as set forth.
Third. In Breaks for treating dough. The combination of two externally
toothed wheels in place of an internally toothed wheel with the other parts herein
set forth.