Improvements in Moulding Sugar and Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 19th July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Aug. 1893-Accepted, 23rd Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Moulding Sugar and Apparatus therefor.
I, JOHANNES ANTHONIE PETERS, of Leidschegracht, 107, Amsterdam, in the
Kingdom of Holland, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
My invention has for object to mould sugar in such a manner that it
rapidly broken into lumps or cubes.
may be
According to my invention the sugar is moulded into slabs with two series of
parallel grooves formed upon its surface, the grooves of one series crossing the
grooves of the other series so as to divide the two surfaces of the slab into squares
the said grooves enabling the slab to be readily broken or cut into cubes.
In order to form the grooves I make the sides of the moulds of metal or other
plates having ribs formed upon them corresponding to the grooves to be formed in
the sugar slabs. In practice I find it advantageous to make the said ribbed plates
with ribs upon both sides and to place a number of such plates in a suitable box, I
also find it advantageous to make the said plates of such dimensions and to arrange
the several plates at such distances apart that the slabs of sugar will each have a
weight of say 1 lb.
Dated the 19th day of July 1893.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Moulding Sugar and Apparatus therefor.
I, JOHANNES ANTHONIE PETERS, of Leidschegracht, 107, Amsterdam, in the
Kingdom of Holland, Engineer, 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:-
My invention has for object to mould sugar in such a manner that it may be
rapidly broken into lumps or cubes.
According to my invention the sugar is moulded into slabs, each of which has
two series of parallel grooves formed upon its two side surfaces, the grooves of
one series crossing the grooves of the other series so as to divide the said two
surfaces of the slab into squares, the said grooves enabling the slab to be readily
broken or cut into cubes.
In order to form the grooves I make the sides of the moulds of metal or other
plates having ribs formed upon them corresponding to the grooves to be formed in
the sugar slabs.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is a plan of a mould box having several division plates therein; and,
Figure 2 is an elevation of one of the mould sides or division plates.
a, a are the mould sides, and b, b, c, c are the two series of ribs formed thereon,
preferably by stamping, two of such stamped plates being then fixed back to back
by soldering or otherwise. Or the plates may be stamped or otherwise formed in
one piece with ribs upon both sides.
When a series of such plates are placed in a box, as shewn in Figure 1, it is
obvious that the sugar poured between them will, when crystallized, have the form
of grooved slabs.

page_text: In practice I find it advantageous to make the division plates of such dimensions
and to arrange them at such distances apart that the slabs of sugar will have the
weight of, say, 1 lb.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:―
1. Moulding sugar slabs each with two series of parallel grooves upon each of
its side surfaces, the grooves of one series crossing those of the other series so as to
divide the slab into squares substantially as, and for the purpose, described.
2. A sugar slab mould, the sides of which have ribs thereon crossing each other
substantially as, and for the purpose described.
Dated the 22nd day of August 1893.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.