New or Improved Machine for Use in Making Confections.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 8th Dec., 1894--Accepted, 23rd Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Machine for Use in Making Confections.
I, JAMES RITCHIE, of 21 Inglefield Street Glasgow, Scotland do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new or improved machine for rolling plastic confection
into balls without being touched by the operators hand as heretofore; and whereby,
great saving of labor and higher class work may also be effected.
The especial feature of the invention consists in the adaptation or use of a flat
plate or disc on which is placed the confection to be rolled; said plate or disc
having a circular motion in the horizontal plane imparted thereto.
The aforesaid plate is or may be mounted or supported by means of links, castors
or other equivalents, on or to a frame or table, and have its motion imparted thereto
by a crank or eccentric on a vertical shaft or spindle revolved from another horizontal
shaft actuated by or from a main or counter-driving shaft.
Dated this 7th day of March 1894.
D. F. MASON, C.E.,
Glasgow, Patent Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Machine for Use in Making Confections.
1, JAMES RITCHIE of Inglefield Street, Glasgow, Scotland, Working Con-
fectioner, 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 a new or improved machine for rolling plastic confection
while hardening into balls, without being touched by hand as heretofore, and whereby
great saving of labour and higher class work may also be effected.
The especial feature of the invention consists in the use or adaptation of a flat
plate, slab or pan on which is placed the confection to be rolled said plate, slab or
pan having a circular motion imparted to it in the horizontal plane.
And in order that the invention may be properly understood and the system mode,
or manner under which the same may be practiced may also be understood, I have
appended the annexed drawings on which:
Fig. 1 Sheet 1 is a side elevation of a machine as constructed in accordance with
this invention; Fig. 2 Sheet 2 of the drawings is a plan thereof, and Fig. 4
Sheet 3 is a diagramatic part plan illustrating a modification of same:
Fig. 3 Sheet 3 of drawings is a partly sectional elevation of another modification
as constructed in accordance with the invention.
Similar reference letters or numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several
views in the drawings.
Referring to Figs. 1 and 2 Sheets 1 and 2 respectively of the drawings, the
horizontal frame plate a secured on its legs or standards b on bed plate c constitute
the main framework of the machine. In journals fixed to bed plate o is mounted a
main horizontal driving shaft d having fast and loose pulleys ef and a bevel toothed
wheel with a clutch g for fixing or unfixing said wheel / to shaft d, said clutch
being operated by a hand lever j. Gearing with the bevel wheel is another bevel
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wheel fixed on foot of vertical shaft k said shaft k being supported in any ordinary
well known manner and having fixed on top thereof the pan driving crank
for imparting a horizontal eccentric circular motion to the pan m, so that the
point a Fig. 2 would travel horizontally in the path of the circle y, being the radius
at which the pan is set from the centre of cranks.
The pan may be circular or other shaped; but for facility of manufacture is
preferred to be a circular plate or slab and preferably with a raised edge and made
of iron or other suitable material. The said pan is further supported and guided
in its circular motion by the two cranks n which are fitted so as to revolve in the
top frame a. The pan has three depending pins o which fit exactly into holes in
the cranks Inn. Each crank has two or more holes so as to give when used greater
or less circular motion to the pan m.
As indicated on Fig. 4 Sheet 3 of the drawings, in lieu of the three cranks l, n, n,
three toothed wheels whose pitch line is indicated by the circles p may be substituted
and driven by a centre toothed wheel y fixed on top of vertical shaft k. The three
wheels P would have two or more holes z into either of which would fit either of the
three pins o projecting from bottom of pan m; the holes z being at different centres
to vary the motion of pan.
Under a modification of the invention, as illustrated by Fig. 3 on Sheet 3 of the
drawings the main frame would consist of two upwardly inclined legs r, on bed
plate c and fitted with a vertical shaft k having bevel toothed wheel i. The main
horizontal driving shaft d is mounted in journals on bed plate e and is or may not
be (as required) provided with fast and loose pulleys (not shown). On the shaft d
is fitted a bevel wheel h having an ordinary clutch for fixing or unfixing it thereon;
said clutch being operated by the hand lever j fixed on vertical spindle j¹ which
spindle has fixed thereon a lever s which works clutch. This clutch may obviously
in some cases be dispensed with. On the top of vertical shaft k is fixed a circular
plate u (shewn in section) having holes t into either of which fits the pin o projecting
from bottom of pan m. The pan m is kept from revolving with plate u by a rod or
arm v connected at one end to a bracket w projecting from frame r, and at the other
end to the bottom of pan m.
In lieu of cranks or pins as illustrated on the accompanying drawings for giving
the eccentric circular or non-revolving motion to the ball rolling pan or slab m,
eccentrics may be used, to operate straps or rings connected to bottom or edge of
pan, the pan being kept from revolving by being flexibly connected to a rigid part
of machine.
The formed balls from the cutter or other operator while hot or in a soft or
plastic state are laid on the pan or slab m of the machine while in motion and.are
allowed to roll thereon until they cool or become hard and set when they may be
removed as finished..
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be perforined, I declare that what
I claim is
1st. The general arrangement, construction and combination of mechanisın
substantially as and for the purpose herein before described and shown on the
drawings.
2nd. In a ball rolling machine the combination and use, for keeping the hot or
plastic confection balls in a spherical form until they are hard or set, of a plate, slab
or pan m having an eccentric circular or non-revolving circular motion imparted
thereto, substantially as herein before set forth.
Dated this 7th day of December 1894
D. F. MASON, C.E.,
Glasgow, Patent Agent.