Improvements in Moulding or Casting Confectionery
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application. 1st Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 25th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 7th Apr.,. 1894
Improvements in Moulding or Casting Confectionery.
WILLIAM CHARLES CHILD, 64 King Street Ramsgate Kent, Confectioner.
I do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In order that the improvement may be fully understood it is neccessary to describe
the present system of making gum and gelatine confectionery which will in this and
all other documents be refered to, described and known as the old method of
making confectionery.
Gum gelatine and other soft confectionery is in the old method moulded or
shaped in the following manner.
A wooden tray of convient size the most general size being three foot long
eighteen inches wide and one inch high is placed upon the bench and filled with
starch made perfectly level at the top of starch by drawing across the top a straight
rule a mould stick is then taken which is a peice of wood about twenty inches long
upon which is fixed an exact copy of what it is intended to shape in the starch the
mould stick is then taken by the ends and pressed down upon the starch when upon
the mould stick being removed from the starch a clear impression of the mould
stick is left in the starch when the tray of moulded starch is prepared it is called
the mould and will be refered to, and described in this and all other documents as
the old form of mould. It is then ready for the pouring of the liquid which is
poured with care to prevent spoiling the starch shapes or mould when filled the
mould is put away for the contents to dry when the confectionery is dry in the mould
it is neccessary to remove the manufactured article from the aforementioned, which
results always in spoiling the pattern impressed in the starch the above process is
repeated with the starch it being leveled again and the pattern again impressed
as before described it being neccessary to re-make the mould every time it is
filled.
The confectionery after being removed from the aforementioned mould is washed
in water to free its surface of starch which also gives it a glossy surface.
The subject and purpose of this invention being to remove the neccessity of using
a starch mould and to substitute a new implement or tool to be refered to, and
described as in this and all other documents as the W. C. Childs new mould
also removing the neccessity of washing in any form the moulded article or
confectionary.
The W. C. Childs new mould consists of a plaque or tile of convient size being
generally seven inches wide by ten inches long or eight inches wide by twelve
inches long any thickness to suit the cavities and channels (hereafter described)
which are therein. Cast or moulded in glass, pottery ware, earthenware, poirclein
terra-cotta ware or any other suitable material.
The plaque or tile hereafter described as the new mould consists of a flat tile or
plaque in which are cast or moulded a number of cavities of a desired pattern (which
will hereafter be described) arranged in rows each one being connected from one
cavity to the other cavity by means of a channel arranged below the edge of the
aforementioned cavities all terminating into a convient channel at the bottom of
the tile or plaque which is provided with a raised ridge round its outer surface to
prevent the liquid runing over the sides to waste the aforementioned ridge being
provided at one end with a hole or lip to be fitted a cork or stopper of same material
as the tile is made of. By turning the cork or stopper round in the hole or lip it
will regulate the heighth of the liquid contained in the cavities the cork having one

page_text: flat,peice scliced off which permits the liquid to flow through the grove or flat in
the aforementioned stopper.
The method of using the W. C. Childs new mould is a tile or plaque is placed
upon the bench and any person can take a ladle of liquid and pour it upon the
mould the cavities become filled the liquid flowing through the aforementioned
channels from cavity to cavity unto the channel at the end and then away through
the aforementioned hole or lip.
It (the tile) is then stacked away and another filled in the same manner it being
put upon the other tile to dry the contents.
When dry the contents may be pulled out without injuring the mould or article
which is ready for sale or packing without further attention, or it may be taken out
and dipped into glaze being then hung up to dry.
The advantage over the old mould being that after the confectionery is, removed
from the W. C. Childs new mould it is of course permenent it can be made to
mould any of the following patterns each mould or tile being perinenent in
its self.
Cat, dog, rabbit, mouse, clock, Punch, pear, wheat, Judy, sailor, feather, hand and
heart, butterfly, star, round drop, thistle, moon, triangle, square, wheel, rosette,
egle coffee pot, scissors, bellows, fish, twisted rock, coltsfoot rock lion tiger cigar,
key, numbers, letters, egg, fan cross, beehive, or any other pattern.
The advantages gained by the W. C. Childs new mould are, seimplicty of moulding
any inexperanced person being able to take the mould fill it and stack it away to
dry there being no fear of spoiling the shapes they being permenent and solid saving
a great waste of starch and the moulded article does not require to be washed after
it is removed from the new mould but is quite ready for sale.
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of November, One thousand eight hundred and
ninety-three.
WILLIAM CHARLES CHILD.
DI MOTIVATION.
Improvements in Moulding or Casting Confectionery.
WILLIAM CHARLES CHILD 64 King Street Ramsgate Kent Confectioner.
I 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 princple of moulding gum gelatine and other soft confectionery at present
in use has been quite fully explained in the Provisional Protection Specification
and will be as hithertoo described and refered to as the old method of moulding
confectionery.
The words, and other soft confectionery" meaning any kind of confectionery
which is not in a cyrstalised or hard state also chocolate, creams for chocolate,
chocolate creams, fondants jubjus caramels and the like.
The improved method the subject of this invention consists of an entirely new
and diferant mode of manufacture to the old method before described.
It being a plaque or tile of glass, pottery-ware, earthenware, poirclein, terra-
cotta-ware, aluminum or any other suitable material or substance. Fig. 2.
In any convient size, or shape, oblong, square, round, oval or other shape to suit
the convience of the users.
In the plaque or tile are cast or moulded or stamped an unlimited number of
cavities each one of the cavities being any desired shape Fig. C the shapes each
one of any pattern connected to one another by a grove Fig. D or channel in the
surface of the plaque or tile which grove is below the level of the surface causing
the liquid to flow from one cliannel to the other untill they are all filled when the

page_text: remainder of the liquid is run or flows into the larger channel or grove or
hollow Fig. E which is fitted and provided with a lip or hole which hole is filled or
fitted with a cork or stopper Fig. F which has in one side a grove taken out to
regulate (by turning the stopper round) the height of the liquid contained in the
cavities and channels.
The whole of the channels and cavities and the upper surface of the tile is.
surrounded by a ridge or enbankment Fig. G which if too much liquid is poured.
on to the tile the liquid does not run over the sides to waste but flows away through
the aforementioned grove in the stopper.
As soon as the contents of the plaque or tile are cool or dry they may be dipped
into glaze and hung up to dry or can be packed in boxes as removed from the tile,.
which said tile or plaque is again ready without any preparation for to be filled
again.
The plaque or tile consisting of and being a tile or plaque of any material above
described, being say inch an half thick, seven inches wide and ten inches long
around the whole of the upper surface is a ridge three eighth of and inch high
from inner surface of the plaque inside the ridge or enbankment, and of convient
thickness say one eighth of an inch. Each cavity being above described being
connected to the other and to the draining channel at the end by means of a
triangular or half round tube or channel Fig. H about three eighth's of an inch
deep and about half inch long through which the liquid confectionery flows
ensuring the cavities being all exactly alike filled with the same amount of liquid
confectionery. It being regulated to any particular heighth by a cork or stopper
which fitted or filled the hole in the above described draining channel the said cork
or stopper being a cork, or stopper of same material as the plaque or tile is made
of; it being quite round of exact size to fit the hole in the draining channel and the
stopper having a knob or nut cast or turned upon it with which it is pulled out or
twisted round. The round part of the cork or stopper has a triangular or half
round channel or grove cut out so that when the stopper is put into the afore-.
mentioned hole it (the stopper) does not completely fill the hole but leaves a
triangular or half round channel through the stopper Fig, F. through which the
liquid flows naturally to its level. By the cork or stopper being twisted round it
raises or lowers the contents of the channel. In the stopper which again raises or
lowers the height of the liquid contained within the cavities and channels afore-
mentioned the purpose of which is to alter the size of the moulded article, contained
within each cavity.
The said cork or stopper holds into the hole by the inner sides of the hole and
outter sides of stopper jambing or pressing close togeather thereby remaining in
close contact, which prevents the cork or stopper falling out.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed declare that what I
claim is-
1. The tile or plaque or mould substantially as set forth.
2. The whole of the improved process as described.
3. The tile or plaque or mould in any material.
4. The tile or plaque or mould in any shape.
5. The tile or plaque or mould in any size.
The advantages of, save of waste, save of time, save of labour, the entire
removal of the use of starch and wooden trays.
Dated this Twenty-fourth day of January, One thousand eight hundred and.
Ininate four
WILLIAM CHARLES CHILD.