Improvements in Apparatus for Cutting and Panning Biscuits.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 8th July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 5th Apr., 1890-Accepted, 10th May, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Cutting and Panning 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 apparatus in which a sheet of dough is cut into biscuits by
means of cutters moving to and from a table over which the sheet of dough passes and
in which the biscuits are delivered by means of an endless web to pans having
accelerated motion imparted to them whilst the rear and front edges are passing the
delivery face of the web.
One main object under our invention is to provide readily adjustable means for
ensuring that the cutters shall touch the table evenly and with the desired pressure at
each stroke.
Hitherto when accelerated motion has been given to pans whilst the rear and front
edges passed the delivery face of the web the apparatus necessary for giving the
requisite motion to the pans has necessitated that there should be a considerable space
between the web and the pans and some biscuits have in consequence thereof been
improperly deposited on the pans and become damaged.
Now the second main object of our invention is to so construct the mechanism for
giving motion to the pans that the said pans are brought close to the face of the web
whilst the biscuits are being deposited on the said pans.
Under the first part we make the table on which the cutters act in two portions, one
portion of which, the base, is attached to the main frame through adjustable spring
connections in any usual manner whilst a second portion the top is connected to the
first portion by means of screws and nuts or equivalent devices so combined with
worm or like actuating gear that all the said screws or nuts receive motion simul-
taneously and move the top nearer to or further from the base as required.
Under the second part we provide guides for raising the pans and moving them
towards the web whilst passing the delivery face thereof. Such guides are
conveniently made of strips of metal attached to the machine and projecting beneath
the pans on each side of the carrying chains. Other suitable devices may be used for
that purpose.
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Per pro J. T. KING,
W. B. Johnson,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Cutting and Panning 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 apparatus in which a sheet of dough is cut into biscuits by
means of cutters moving to and from a table over which the sheet of dough passes
and in which the biscuits are delivered by means of an endless web to pans having
accelerated motion imparted to them whilst the rear and front edges are passing the
delivery face of the web.

page_text: One main object under our invention is to provide readily adjustable means for
ensuring that the cutters shall touch the table evenly and with the desired pressure at
each stroke.
Hitherto when accelerated motion has been given to pans whilst the rear and front
edges passed the delivery face of the web, the apparatus necessary for giving the
requisite motion to the pans has necessitated that there should be a considerable space
between the web and the pans and some biscuits have in consequence thereof been
improperly desposited on the pans and become damaged.
The second object of our invention is to so construct the mechanism for giving
motion to the pans that the said pans are brought close to the face of the web whilst
the biscuits are being deposited on the said pans.
Under the first part we make the table on which the cutters act in two portions one
portion of which the base is attached to the main frame through adjustable spring
connections in any usual manner whilst a second portion the top is connected to the
first portion by means of screws and nuts or equivalent devices so combined with
worm or like actuating gear that all the said screws or nuts receive motion simul-
taneously and move the top nearer to or further from the base as required.
Under the second part we provide guides for raising the pans and moving them
towards the web whilst passing the delivery face thereof. Such guides are
conveniently made of strips of metal attached to the machine and projecting beneath
the pans on each side of the carrying chains. Other suitable devices may be used for
that purpose.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
In all the views the same letters denote like parts.
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section, fig. 2 an end view and fig. 3 a plan of cutting table
under our invention. A. main frame b, is the base of the table attached to the main
frame by means of bolts c resting on springs d contained within recesses in the main
frame, e adjusting nuts, fis the table top made with four screwed legs 9 which fit in
worm wheel nuts h carried by the base b. Simultaneous motion is given to the nuts h
by means of worms i on a shaft j. k handwheel. The height of the table top fis
varied by means of the hand wheel k without varying the spring tension.
Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section, and fig. 5 is a plan of a modification of cutting
table in which the nuts gear into a central spur wheel l. Motion is given to the
spur wheel by means of a pinion m actuated by a worm wheel and worm i.
Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section of improved mechanism under our invention for
giving motion to pans in biscuit cutting and panning machines. A is part of the main
frame. 6x is one of the intermittently moving endless chains which by means of
studs mx carry forward the pans n*. 0x is an inclined way, there being one at each
side of the machine up which the pans rise so as to pass close under the delivery
nose px of the web from which the biscuits fall on the pans.
Fig. 7 is a longitudinal section of a modification of mechanism in which the front
edges of the pans are raised by a rotating cam wheel q* and delivered to ways o* at
the required height.
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It will be evident that many modifications of apparatus may be made to effect the
desired objects without departing from my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained, the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
First. In apparatus for cutting biscuits an adjustable table substantially as set
forth.
Second. In apparatus for cutting biscuits the combination of a table base held
in position by springs with a table top united to the base by screw & nut con-
nections substantially as set forth.

page_text: Third. In apparatus for panning biscuits raising the pans close to the nose of
the biscuit delivery web for the purpose set forth.
Fourth. In apparatus for panning biscuits the combination of endless chains
pans guides and delivery web substantially in the manner and for the purpose set
forth.
Fifth. Biscuit cutting and panning apparatus substantially as set forth.
Per pro J. T. KING,
J. Johnson,
Agent.