Improvements in Apparatus for Rolling Tea Leaf and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 31st May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 24th June, 1895-Accepted, 27th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Rolling Tea Leaf and the like.
I, WILLIAM JACKSON of Thorngrove, Mannofield, Aberdeen, North Britain,
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:=
My invention relates to apparatus for rolling tea leaf, and the like, in which
apparatus the leaf is rolled between an upper and a lower surface, the upper surface
being situated inside a case, or jacket, which confines the leaf in place during
rolling; and the object of my invention is to so construct, or form, the said case, or
jacket, that its inner sides, or one, or more, of its inner sides is, or are, utilized to
assist in rolling the leaf. With this object I provide the inner sides of the case, or
jacket, or one or more of the inner sides with projecting portions, which may be in'
the form of flutings, or corrugations, or ribs, or circular or other projections, for
example arranged in a vertical inclined or other position, which will enable them to
take such a grip, or hold, upon the leaf as to assist in rolling it; so that the case,
or jacket, besides fulfilling its usual function of retaining the leaf between the
rolling surfaces, also assists in the rolling operation.
Dated this 31st day of May 1895
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
improvements in Apparatus for Rong Tea Lea and the like.
I WILLIAM JACKSON of Thorngrove, Mannofield, Aberdeen, North Britain,
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 :-
My invention relates to apparatus for rolling tea leaf and the like in which
apparatus the leaf is rolled between an upper surface, plate, or weight, and a lower
surface, the upper surface, plate or weight being situated inside a case or jacket
which confines the leaf in place during rolling. The weight may even be tea leaf
itself if the case or jacket be of sufficient depth to contain enough leaf to give the
requisite weight, and the object of my invention is to so construct, or form, the said
case or jacket, that its inner sides, or one, or more, of its inner sides, is or are,
utilized to assist in rolling the leaf. With this object I provide the inner sides of
the case, or jacket, or one, or more, of the inner sides of the case or jacket, with
projecting portions, which may be in the form of flutings, or corrugations, or ribs,
or circular, or other projections, for example arranged in a vertical, inclined, or
other position, which will enable them to take such a grip, or hold, upon the leaf as
to assist in rolling it; so that the case, or jacket, besides fulfilling its usual function
of retaining the leaf between the rolling surfaces, also assists in the rolling
operation.
The accompanying drawing illustrates the manner in which my invention may be
carried into practical effect. Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 is a plan of

page_text: a machine to which my invention is applied but it is to be understood that this is
shown by way of illustration and that the invention is not limited in its application
to this nor to any particular construction of machine provided that it has a case or
jacket to which projections can be applied according to my invention.
A is the case or jacket containing the upper rolling surface B and moved by any
suitable mechanism (such for example as that shown) over the lower rolling
surface C. On the inner sides of the case or jacket A are secured or formed ribs a
which assist in the rolling of the leaf as herein before stated. I bave shown vertical
ribs in the said figures but the projections may be made in any convenient way and
take any other form which will have the desired effect of assisting in rolling the
leaf; for example in Figure 3 I have shown ribs a² formed by corrugated metal
and in Figure 4 I have shown in vertical section and plan a case or jacket provided
with hemi-spherical projections a³. The projections however may be for example
inclined ribs flutes or battens or waved or ruffled surfaces and they may extend
wholly or only partly over one, or more than one, of the sides of the case or
jacket.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
In tea rolling machines, a case or jacket provided on its inner side, or on one
or more of its inner sides, with projections which assist in the rolling of the leaf,
substantially as hereinbefore explained.
Dated this 12th day of June 1895.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
Agents.