AN IMPROVED KNEADING MACHINE
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Marie Christophe Eugene Page, of the Firm E. & M.
Page, Brothers, of Valdoie, near Belfort, Department of the Haut Rhin,
in the Empire of France, Mechanical Engineer, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED KNEADING MACHINE."
Sealed the 9th July 1861, and dated the 11th January 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Marie Christophe Eugene
Page at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 11th January 1861.
I, MARIE CHRISTOPHE EUGENE PAGE, of the Firm E. & M. Page, Brothers,
of Valdoie, near Belfort, Department of the Haut Rhin, in the Empire of
France, Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED KNEADING MACHINE;" to be as follows:-
My kneading machine will consist of a hollow cylinder, into which will be
introduced the matters or paste to be mixed or kneaded; through the centre
of this cylinder will pass a screw shaft, by which a helicoidal come-and-go
motion will be given to a cross bar carrying one or more blades. The screw
will be set in motion by a crank turned by hand or other power alternately
right and left, as the screw draws the bladed cross bar to one or pushes it to
the other extremity of the cylinder. A spring placed near the crank end of
the shaft will permit the screw to advance or retire when it arrives at the end
of its course, so that the blades may scrape the bottom of the cylinder, which
will have openings at each end for the exit of the kneaded matter.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Marie Christophe Eugene Page in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 11th July 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARIE
CHRISTOPHE EUGENE PAGE, of the Firm E. & M. Page, Brothers, of Valdoie,
near Belfort, Department of the Haut Rhin, in the Empire of France,
Mechanical Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, IIer heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Marie Christophe Eugene Page, Her special licence that I, the said
Marie Christophe Eugene Page, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Marie Christophe Eugene Page, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigus, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED KNEADING MACHINE," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Marie Christophe Eugene Page, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Marie Christophe Eugene Page, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto
annexed, and forming part of this my Specification, and to the figures and letters
of reference placed thereon.
My improved kneading machine for kneading bread and mixing any sub-
stances which it is desired to reduce to pulp or into a paste more or less thick,
has a helicoidal (backward and forward or) come-and-go motion imprinted to
a cross bar or arm, with one or more blades travelling along a hollow cylinder,
in which are placed the matters to be mixed. This motion is obtained by a
single crank turned by hand (one workman may suffice or several may be

page_text: required) and placed upon the single-screw shaft, which is turned (alternately)
right and left as it completes each journey.
I will now proceed to describe the Drawings illustrating my Invention (pre-
mising that I do not confine myself to the precise details shewn and described,
as they may be modified without essentially departing from my Invention).
Figure 1 represents a front view of my machine and section taken through
the axle; and Figure 2, an end view. A indicates the wooden framing sup-
porting the kneading apparatus; B, cylinder containing the matters to be
kneaded; C, screw shaft carrying at its extremity the kneading arm or cross
bar, to which it gives a helicoidal movement; D, the kneader with two blades;
E, nut of the screw C; F, springs permitting this nut to advance or retire
when the screw has arrived at the end of its journey, in order that the blades
may scrape the bottoms or ends of the cylinder; G, crank for setting the screw
in motion; II, trough to receive the dough, paste, or kneaded matter; and I,
openings for the exit of the paste or dough.
In witness whereof, I, the said Marie Christophe Eugene Page, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of June, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
0 Witness,
S. CASTELA,
47, Rue du Vert-bois.
M. C. E. PAGE. (L.S.)