IMPROVE- MENTS IN LOAF-BREAD SCALEING AND MOULDING MACHINES
Year: 1884

page_text: I, ALFRED HARVEY, 7 Avondale Terrace Paisley Road, Glasgow, in the County
of Lanark, Baker, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVE-
MENTS IN LOAF-BREAD SCALEING AND MOULDING MACHINES, to be as follows
viz.:
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It consists of a frame or stand made of metal, or any other suitable material, say
from six to twelve feet long, or any other length, that may be found more suitable,
with a roller attached to each end, for the purpose of carrying a band or web, of
flannel, or any other suitable material, with two Screws at one end, for the purpose
of tightening up the band or web. The band or web to be driven by a belt and
pulley, attached to end roller of the machine.
On the frame or stand, is fixed a box or case, of metal or any other suitable
material, which is open at both ends, to admit of the band or web travelling
through. Inside the box, is a plate or plates, adjusted by screws through a cross-
head, from the top and suspended on springs. These plates might also be adjusted
without either springs or screws. At the end of the first plate, is a cross screwed
shaft with circular knives, that can be adjusted by jams nuts. The first plate is
flat and the second arched. The dough is now placed in the end of the machine
and cone eyed along by the web, underneath the first plate, which compresses it
into a roll of equal size and the whole breadth of the machine. The circular knives
being properly adjusted, divides the dough while passing under, into equal portions.
That is to say. If twenty pounds of dough be placed in the machine, it will come
out ten two pound loaves. To make round loaves, the dough after passing through
the knives, is conveyed by the same web under the arched plate, which compresses
each seperately, forms it into a round loaf and delivers it into a tray at the other
end of the machine To make square or long loaves such as pan or French rolls &
the arched plate can be raised by the screw and a plate fixed to the front of
the flat plate, which will give the fold over, such as they get at present by hand, or
there could be a machine for round and one for square loaf bread, on the same
principal, seperately. The foregoing will not only be a saving of labor, say from
bifty to eighty per cent but will make better and more wholesome bread. It being
admitted by all who understand the nature of fermentation, that, after it reaches a
certain stage, the sooner the dough is got into the oven the better, to prevent it
getting sour, which makes it very unpleasant and injurious to health.
Dated this Seventh day of January 1984

page_text: . I, ALFRED HARVEY, of 7 Avondale Terrace, Paisley Road, Glasgow, in the
county of Lanark, Baker, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN LOAF-BREAD SCALEING AND MOULDING MACHINES," and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My improved bread-scaleing and moulding machine which is illustrated in
longitudinal vertical section in plan, and in end elevation in figures 1, 2 and 3
respectively, consists of a frame or stand A made of metal or any other suitable
material (say from six to twelve feet long, or any other length that may be found
more suitable) with a roller B attached to each end for the purpose of carrying an
endless band or web C of flannel, cotton, or any other suitable material, and with
screws D at one end for the purpose of tightening up the band or web. The band
or web C is driven by a belt and pulleys E on the shaft E¹ carrying one of the end
rollers of the machine.
On the frame or stand A is fixed a box or case F (made of metal or any other
suitable material) which is open at both ends to admit of the band or web
travelling through with the dough upon it. Between the sides of the box or case F
is a plate or plates G, G adjusted by screws through crossheads H from the top
and suspended on springs I. These plates G, G¹ might also be adjusted without
either springs or screws. At the end of the first plate G or about the mid-length
of the second plate G¹, is a cross shaft fitted with circular knives g that can be
adjusted by jam nuts. The first plate G is flat, and the second G¹ is arched or
formed with a number of inverted channels g¹ as shown in figure 3. The dough is
first weighed out and is placed in the end of the machine on the endless band C,
and conveyed along by the web underneath the first plate G which compresses it
into a roll of equal size and the whole breadth of the machine. The circular
knives g being properly adjusted serve to divide the dough while passing under the
plate G¹ into equal portions. That is to say, if eight pounds of dough be placed in
the machine it will come out as four two-pound loaves. To make round loaves the
dough after passing through the knives is conveyed by the same web under the
arched plate, which not only serves to divide the dough but also compresses each
one separately, forms it into a round loaf, and delivers. it into a tray at the other
end of the machine. The use of the circular knives may be in general dispensed
with by forming sharp edges on the divisions between the arches g' of the plate G¹.
To prevent slipping of the endless band C a gripping roller J is pressed up
against it below one of the end rollers of the machine, the degree of pressure being
adjusted by means of wedges operated by screw shaft and a band wheel K. In
connection with the machine a flour dusting device is provided which however is
not claimed separately. It consists of a sieve L fitted over the web C and provided
with a hopper. This sieve is intermittently shaken to dust the dough and the
band with Hour by means of rotating ratchet wheels M fitted on a shaft on which
is a pulley M¹ driven by a belt M' from the roller shaft E.
To make square or long loaves, such as pan or French rolls &c., the arched plate
can be raised by the screw and a plate fixed to the front of the flat plate which
will give the fold over such as the loaves get at present by hand, or one machine
may be used for round and one for square loaf bread.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is,
First. The combination of parts forming the improved bread scaleing and
moulding machine herein described and illustrated.
Second. The combination of the endless band travelling within a box or case,
with the flat, or flat and arched plates which serve to roll and divide the dough
substantially as herein described and illustrated.
Dated this Seventh day of October 1884
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.