An Improved Device for Decorating and Outting Out Biscuits, Cakes, and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Nov., 1899-Accepted, 16th Dec., 1899 :
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
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An Improved Device for Decorating and Outting Out Biscuits, Cakes,
and the like.
I, HEINRICH ALBERT EMIL DURKOOP, of 40, Gross-Borsteler Chaussée, Ham-
burg, in the Empire of Germany, Machine Maker, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be parti-
cularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The present invention relates to a device for the ornamentation and stamping
or cutting out of cakes, biscuits, or similar articles, of thin dough or pastry.
The invention consists in the grouping together of an ornamenting stamp and
a cutting out die, with an ejector for removing the cut-out and ornamented
paste or dough from the said die, so that, during one descent of the stamper-
out, the strip of paste or dough which is moved forward to the proper extent
in the stamping or cutting machine, receives always simultaneously a cutting
out and ornamenting action, the cutter, during the continuous working of the
apparatus, always cutting out the portion that had previously beeen ornamented.
This arrangement renders it possible to provide the whole surface of the "cake"
with ornamentations and decorations of any desired kind, without employing the
movable and very complicated ejectors which have hitherto been employed in these
stamping out apparatus, and in which the contours and decorative portions that
are present in the mould, must be also provided. A plain or undecorated ejector
only is now necessary. In consequence, much more beautifully and artistically
ornamented cakes may be produced without the necessity of altering the
machines hitherto in use.
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An example of the manner in which the invention is carried out is shewn in
the accompanying drawing, in which-
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Fig. 1 represents a stamp "with two moulds in underneath plan.
Fig. 2 is a cross section of the same.
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Fig. 3 shews & stamped out cake."
As will be seen from Fig. 1 of the drawing, the invention consists essentially
of the "base plate" a, of a length corresponding to the width of the machine,
and on the underside of which are arranged, in juxtaposition, the ornamental
moulds b&b, as well as the cutting-out pieces or dies c c¹. The interior space
of these cutters is made hollow for the purpose in view, and to receive the
suitably-shaped ejector.
The mode of operation of this stamper (as will be seen from the drawing) is
as follows: —
The strip of paste or dough moved forward by the machine in the direction
of the arrow, and of a breadth suitable for the cakes," will, at one descent
of the stamper, be cut by the cutting mould or die e, whilst the portion of
dough immediately behind the cut-out portion will receive its ornamentation
from the ornamenting or decorating mould or die b. As the strip of paste or
dough e moves forward, the portion that has just received its decoration comes

page_text: under the cutter c, and is cut-out thereby, whilst the ornamenting mould or
die 6 again imprints another portion of dough.
By means of this apparatus, therefore, the dough or paste will be simultane-
ously ornamented and cut-out, the dough or paste for the production of each
cake, however, being ornamented and cut out at different positions in the
machine. Instead of being composed of two separate pieces, as shown in the
example, the cutting and ornamenting moulds or dies may be made in one piece,
or be connected together by suitable devices.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
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Cutting-out and ornamenting apparatus for "cakes ' or the like, characterized
by the grouping together of an ornamenting and a cutting mould or die b, c,
for the purpose of simultaneously ornamenting and cutting out dough or paste
at different points, thus rendering the form of the ejector independent of the
style or character of the ornamentation, substantially as described.
Dated this 8th day of November 1899.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.