A New or Improved Machine or Apparatus for Treating Moulded Confectionery such as Cream Fondants and the like
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Aug., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 29th May, 1893-Accepted, 1st July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Machine or Apparatus for Treating Moulded
Confectionery such as Cream Fondants and the like.
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We, JOHN TORDOFF & SON, LIMITED, of Kirkgate, Bradford, in the County
of York, Chocolate Manufacturers, and ALBERT MIDGLEY of 8, Tong Street,
Dudley Hill, near Bradford aforesaid, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new or improved machine or apparatus for treating
moulded confectionery such as cream fondants or the like to remove the particles
of moulding material adhering to them after the moulding process.
For this purpose we employ an endless travelling carrier which may be formed
of light wire links or flexible open wirework mounted upon driving drums of
polygonal section and resting upon or between lateral guides. The fondants or
the like to be treated are placed upon said carrier and a rotary brush or rotary
brushes mounted above said carrier is or are arranged to revolve at a comparatively
high speed with its or their peripheries in close contiguity thereto so that the
fondants as they pass beneath are lightly and rapidly brushed thereby loosening
and removing any particles of the moulding material adhering to them. Two
brushes may be used revolving in reverse directions. The underside of the fondants
is preferably also brushed at the same time by an underneath rotating brush or
brushes acting thereon through the openings in the carrier. After being thus
treated the fondants or the like drop off the carrier on to a slide or its equivalent
into any suitable receptacle.
The brushes or more or less the whole apparatus may be enclosed or encased and
the air exhausted from the enclosed portion by a fan or other means so as to draw
away the material brushed off and it may be carried to a settling chamber or the
like to recover the material.
Dated this 26th day of August 1892.
DRACUP & NUWELL,
Bradford, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Machine or Apparatus for Treating Moulded
Confectionery such as Cream Fondants and the like.
We, JOHN TORDOFF & SON, LIMITED, of Kirkgate, Bradford, in the County
of York, Chocolate Manufacturers, and ALBERT MIDGLEY, of 8, Tong Street,
Dudley Hill, near Bradford, aforesaid, do hereby declare the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to a new or improved machine or apparatus for treating
moulded confectionery such as cream fondants or the like to remove the particles
of moulding materials adhering to them after the moulding process.
For this purpose we employ an endless travelling carrier which may be formed
of light wire links or flexible open wirework mounted upon driving drums of
polygonal section and resting upon or between lateral guides. The fondants or
the like to be treated are placed upon said carrier and a rotary brush or rotary
brushes mounted above said carrier is or are arranged to revolve at a comparatively
high speed with its or their peripheries in close contiguity thereto so that the

page_text: fondants as they pass beneath are lightly and rapidly brushed, thereby loosening
and removing any particles of the moulding material adhering to them. Two
brushes may be used revolving in reverse directions. The underside of the fondant
is preferably also brushed at the same time by an underneath rotating brush or
brushes acting thereon through the openings in the carrier. After being thus
treated the fondants or. the like drop off the carrier on to a slide or its equivalent
into any suitable receptacle.
The brushes or more or less the whole apparatus may be enclosed or encased
and the air exhausted from the enclosed portion by a fan or other means so as to
draw away the material brushed off, and it may be carried to a settling chamber or
the like to recover the material.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying sheet of drawings forming a part
of this Specification in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding
parts in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents a side elevation of our improved machine with the side of
the casing enclosing the brushes removed and also a portion of the lateral guide
at that side broken away.
Figure 2, is a plan view of the same with the travelling carrier omitted at one
end so as to show one of the polygonal drums on which it is mounted in full at
that end.
Figures 3 and 4 are respectively a plan and side view of a portion of the
travelling carrier on a larger scale.
The endless travelling carrier A is mounted upon the octagonal drums B and B¹
mounted in bearings C and C' at each end of the framework D. The bearings C¹
are capable of adjustment to regulate the tension of the carrier and a driving
pulley E is mounted on the shaft of the drum B driven from the short counter
shaft F connected to the main shaft by the belt G. The main driving pulley is not
shown on the main shaft which is shown broken away to economize space.
Two rapidly revolving brushes H, H mounted in adjustable bearings J in the
standards K are fitted above the carrier and are driven by the belts L from the
pulley M on the main shaft. And a revolving brush H is also fitted under the top
of the travelling bed driven by the crossed belt L' from M so as to drive H' in
the reverse direction to H. Lateral guides N of L section for the carrier to
rest upon are fitted on each side supported by projections on the bearing brackets
of C and C
In operation the cream fondants or other moulded confectionery are brought in
the moulding boxes O and placed upon the table P. They are then lifted out and
placed upon the carrier A which conveys them under the brushes H, H and over
the brush H. As the fondants pass in contact with the brushes the moulding
material is thoroughly 'brushed off both sides and the fondants moving with the
bed on reaching the delivery end of the machine drop off on to the shoot or
incline R and slide into the tray S.
The brushes H are enclosed by the casing T connected to the air shaft U
in which an upward current is maintained by a fan or other means. That
portion of the moulding material not drawn into the shaft drops through the
carrier on to the table V supported between the tops of the side-frames and it is
scraped along by the carrier A until it reaches the shoot W down which it slides
into the box X.
The carrier A is preferably formed of a number of wire links a connecting cross
wires or pins b.
A second brush H' may be employed but if the bottom of the fondants are plain
and smooth we find one sufficient for the purpose.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
A machine for removing moulding material from moulded confectionery having

page_text: a revolving brush or brushes operating in conjunction with a travelling open-work
bed, substantially as herein shown and described.
Dated this 26th day of Nov 1893
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.