Improvements in Apparatus for Marking or Stamping Bread, Leather, and other Substances or Materials.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 21st June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 21st Mar., 1893--Accepted, 29th Apr., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Marking or Stamping Bread,
Leather, and other Substances or Materials.
We, HENRY BARLOW, of the Steam Bakery, Baker, and ALFRED DAWES, of
40, Wellington Street, Millwright, both in Kettering, in the County of
Northampton, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to apparatus for marking or stamping bread, leather and
other substances or materials and has for its object to construct a marking or
stamping apparatus which will count or keep a record of the number of marks or
impressions made.
In carrying out our invention we attach the marking or stamping device to a
shank adapted to slide in a casing, or we provide the casing with a movable or
sliding handle or spindle and in conjunction with such movable or sliding shank,
handle or spindle we arrange counting mechanism adapted to be operated by the
depression of the apparatus upon the material or substance to be stamped or by
striking the handle or spindle with a hammer.
In practice we find it advantageous to provide the movable shank handle or
spindle with a pawl which engages with the first motion wheel of the counting
mechanism.
Dated the 21st dor of June 1899
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Marking or Stamping Bread,
Leather, and other Substances or Materials.
We, HENRY BARLOW, of the Steam Bakery, Baker, and ALFRED DAWES, of
40, Wellington Street, Millwright, both in Kettering, in the County of
Northampton, 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 :-
This invention relates to apparatus for marking or stamping bread, leather and
other substances or materials and has for its object to construct a marking or
stamping apparatus which will count or keep a record of the number of marks or
impressions made.
In carrying out our invention we attach the marking or stamping device to a
shank adapted to slide in a casing, or we provide the casing with a movable or
sliding handle or spindle and in conjunction with such movable or sliding shank,
handle or spindle we arrange counting mechanism adapted to be operated by the
depression of the apparatus upon the material or substance to be stamped or by
striking the handle or spindle with a hammer.
In practice we find it advantageous to provide the movable shank, handle or
spindle with a pawl which engages with the first motion wheel of the counting
mechanism.
To enable our invention to be fully understood we will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Figure 1 is a front elevation of our improved marking or stamping apparatus;
and,
Figure 2 is a rear elevation with the back of the casing removed:

page_text: Figure 3 is a view of the underside; and,
Figure 4 is a sectional side elevation.
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a is the marking or stamping plate which as represented in the drawings has the
word "Barlow on the face thereof but which may have any other letters thereon,
or a design for ornamenting the bread or other substance. This stamp a is fixed
to a bar or shank & sliding in a socket c at the lower part of a casing d, to the upper
part of which casing is fixed a handle e by means of which the apparatus is worked.
This casing d contains counting mechanism, the hands of which move over a dial f;
the front of the said case is provided with a glass g and the back is made
removable to afford access to the interior thereof. The counting mechanism as
shewn comprises a ratchet-wheel i having ten teeth, on the arbor of which is fixed
a pointer; a wheel j driven by a pinion on the arbor of the wheel i and adapted
to make one revolution to each ten revolutions of the wheel i so that in one complete
revolution it records a hundred, a pointer being fixed to the arbor of the said
wheel j; a wheel k having ten teeth and moved a distance of one tooth at each
revolution of the wheelj by a pin ¹ thereon so that one revolution of the wheel k
indicates a thousand, a pointer k² being fixed to the arbor of the said wheel k; and
a wheel having twenty teeth and adapted to be moved a distance of one tooth at
each revolution of the wheel k by means of the projection upon the said wheel k,
a. pointer being fixed to the arbor of the wheel l. m, n, o are detent pawls
engaging with the wheels i, k, 1 respectively.
Motion is imparted to the counting mechanism from the bar 6 through the
medium of a bar p connected to the said bar and forming an extension thereof, and
sliding upon guide-pins q, y, the said bar carrying a spring-pawls against which
engages one of the teeth of the wheel i each time that the apparatus is depressed
upon the bread or other substance, the said pawl during the return movement of the
apparatus slipping past a tooth of the said wheel i.
t is a spring arranged between the socket c and the marking plate a and serving
to return the parts after they have been operated.
u is a shield which extends over the marking plate a and which serves to prevent
an impression from being made without operating the indicating mechanism.
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 :-
1. A marking or stamping apparatus, for bread and other substances or materials,
having a marking plate attached to a shank adapted to slide in a casing provided
with a handle and containing suitable counting mechanism, substantially as
described.
2. The manufacture and use of the improved marking or stamping apparatus
hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 21st day of March 1893.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.