An Improved Appliance for Notching Loaves.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Jan., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 27th Oct., 1897-Accepted, 4th Dec., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Notching Loaves.
I, EDWARD WILLIAMS, of Central Bakery, High Street, Coleshill, in the County
of Warwick, Pastry Cook and Confectioner, do hereby declare the nature of this
Invention to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of the hereindescribed improved appliance for notch-
ing loaves before they are baked. My Invention is in a portable form and com-
paritively inexpensive and by it a number of loaves can be notched, much more
quickly than is possible when they are notched with a knife in the usual way or
notched by a machine.
My said improved appliance is made of somewhat the shape of a hand bell
except that the top instead of being rounded as is usual in a hand bell is or may be
flat and the sides of the bell are or may be inclined towards the top instead of 'be-
ing curved. What I term the bell is made of a suitable size to cover the top of
the loaf to be notched. The said bell part has a central handle at the top which
is made tubular and open ended for the escape of air from the bell when the
appliance is in use or instead of or in addition to the handle part being tubular
and open ended there may be air holes in the bell. Fixed around the interior
of the bell I provide a certain number of inwardly projecting radial knives corre-
sponding with the number of notches which the loaf is required to have. These
knives are soldered or otherwise fixed to the sides and top of the bell and at their
upper parts they are curved corresponding with the top of the loaf.
To notch a loaf of dough with the appliance above described, the appliance has
merely to be held in the hand and pressed down upon the loaves one after the other
when the loaf will be enclosed within the bell and the said knives in the bell will
form the notches in the loaves the air from the interior of the bell escaping through
the said handle or other air outlets. By placing a number of loaves in a row and
using the appliance as above described the loaves can be notched one after the
other very quickly.
Dated this 21st day of January 1897.
An Improved Appliance for Notching Loaves.
I, EDWARD WILLIAMS, of Central Bakery, High Street, Coleshill, in the County
of Warwick, Pastry Cook and Confectioner, 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:-
This Invention consists of the herein described improved appliance for notching
loaves before they are baked. My Invention is in a portable form and com-
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paratively inexpensive and by it a number of loaves can be notched much
quickly than is possible when they are notched with a knife in the usual "way or
notched by a machine.
I will describe my Invention by referring to the accompanying drawings on
which Fig. 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 is a plan of my said Invention; Fig. 3
is a sectional elevation and Fig. 4 is an inverted plan of the same.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all
the Figures of the drawings.
My said improved appliance is made of thin metal such as tin and as shewn
upon my drawings is somewhat of the shape of a hand bell except that the top a¹
of the bell part A. instead of being rounded as is usual in a hand bell is or may be
flat and the sides a² of the bell part A are or may be inclined towards the top as
shewn upon my drawings instead of being curved. What I term the bell part A
is made of a suitable size to cover the top of the loaf to be notched. The bell
part A has a central handle B projecting from the top and is by preference made
tubular and open ended for the escape of air from the bell part A when the appli-
ance is in use. Or instead of or in addition to the handle part B being tubular
or open ended there may be air outlet holes c (see Fig. 2) in the upper part of the
bell. A. Fixed to the interior of the bell A I provide a certain number of in-
wardly projecting radial knives arranged to correspond with the number of notches
which the loaf is required to have. The particular example of my Invention
illustrated by my drawings has six of these inwardly projecting radial knives
(see Figs. 3 and 4) marked respectively D1 D2 D3 14 1 and D to make six
corresponding notches in the loaf. The said knives D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 are
soldered or otherwise fixed to the sides a² and to the top a¹ of the bell part A and
at their upper part d' the said knives are curved corresponding with the top of
the loaf.
To notch a loaf of dough with appliance above described and illustrated by my
drawings the appliance has merely to be held in the hand by the handle B
and pressed down upon the loaves of dough one after the other when the loaf of
dough will be enclosed within the bell part A and the said knives D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6
in the bell A will form the notches in the loaves of dough the air from the
interior of the bell A escaping through the handle B or other air outlets c. By
placing a number of loaves in a row and using the appliance as above described
the loaves can be notched one after the other very quickly.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said In-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
The improved appliance for notching loaves of dough constructed and adapted
for use in the manner substantially as herein before described and illustrated.
Dated this 26th day of October 1897.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.