Improvements in Machines for Cutting Rashers of Bacon, Slicing Bread, and for other like purposes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 17th July, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Cutting Rashers of Bacon, Slicing
Bread, and for other like purposes.
WE, FREDERICK JOHN BURRELL, of Saint Mary's House, Thetford, in the County of
Norfolk, Engineer, and EDWIN MAXWELL, of 4 Rutland Road, Bedford, in the County of
Bedfordshire, Engineer, 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 :-
Our invention relates to improvements in machines for cutting rashers of bacon,
slicing bread, and for other like purposes.
And in order that our invention may be thoroughly understood, we now proceed to
describe the accompanying drawing thereof, reference being had to letters and figures
marked thereon.
Fig. 1, is a front elevation of the machine.
Fig. 2, is a side elevation.
Fig. 3, is a plan of the top.
Fig. 4, is an enlarged section of the guide plate or blade.
Fig. 5, is an enlarged plan of the top or handle of the pivoted lever.
This invention consists of an apparatus whereby the material is sliced by a knife c
(as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2,) this said knife passes through a set of top and
bottom parallel guide bars d and e.
In carrying our invention into practice we mount on suitable standards f bolted
together, a wood bench g sloping to a suitable angle, and on this said bench g we
mount a block or rest h. At the top and at the bottom of the bench g on the right
hand side we bolt two metallic uprights or blocks and to these said uprights or
blocks we fix two sets of parallel guide bars d, one set at the top and one set at the
bottom. To the bottom set of parallel guide bars d we loosely pivot at ja guide plate
or stop a with a lever k at the end. To the guide plate or stop a we tightly pivot
or fix at the point a pivoted crank lever b, this said lever at the top is provided
with a handle b' and a notch m for the purpose of receiving a part of the knife c. The
aforesaid apparatus is controlled by a spiral spring n.
Sufficient width is given between the sides of the machine to admit of wide pieces
of bacon being operated upon. The slices being all taken off one edge (or side) of the
bacon only, it follows that after each slice is cut and removed the bacon must be put
in position against the stop and this operation repeated until the whole is cut up and
as each slice is cut off the bacon, the knife is pressed down against the top or
handle b¹ of the lever b thereby throwing the stop a into the position indicated by
dotted lines in Fig. 2, to release the slice, but directly the pressure is removed the
stop a and lever b resumes its normal position by the action of the spring m.
The top of the lever b as in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 5, is turned at right angles so as to
form a handle b¹ or rest for the handle of the knife, by which the plate a is thrust
down through pressure on the knife handle c'. The lever b is pivoted to the stop
plate a for the purpose of forcing the plate a downwards by a thrust on the handle b₁.
A guard or shield o is attached to the bottom upright i in order to protect the
edge of the stop a and the lever b.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :-
1. In a machine for cutting or slicing bacon, bread or the like, the combination of
the various parts substantially as above described in this specification and illustrated
in the accompanying drawing for the purpose specified.
2. In a machine for cutting or slicing bacon, bread or the like, the combination of
the guide plate or stop a pivoted crank lever 6 top and bottom parallel guide bars d
and e, bench g standards frest h uprights i lever knotch m spring n and guard or
shield o, substantially as herein described and according to the accompanying
drawing.
Dated thin 0441 dow of March 1907
J. P. BAYLY,
18 Fulham Place, London, W., Agent for the Applicants.