IMPROVEMENTS IN APPA- RATUS FOR MAKING WAFERS
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Barons Northcote, of Finch Villa, Heathfield Road,
Handsworth, Warwickshire, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPA-
RATUS FOR MAKING WAFERS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Barons Northcote at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th May 1876.
GEORGE BARONS NORTHCOTE, of Finch Villa, Heathfield Road, Handsworth,
Warwickshire. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MAKING WAFERS."
This invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for making wafers.
The apparatus consists of two iron plates having handles attached and hinged
together. The lower plate is supported in a horizontal position on a stand, being
made firm in that position, and it is heated by gas burning under it, or by a lamp.
The upper plate works on the hinge so that the plates can be shut together or
opened apart at will. Attached to the top side of the upper plate thero is also a
gas-burning apparatus, which moves with it and continues to burn whether the
plates are open or shut. The heat can be regulated independently to both top and
bottom plate by taps regulating the supply of gas to each.
To use the apparatus the gas is lighted, this soon heats the two irons, which are
then opened, and the batter placed on the lower iron, the irons are then closed and
squeezed tight together. This can also be done by a screw or treadle. If the irons
are of proper heat after a few seconds on opening them the wafer will be found
done.
By this method the wafers can be made much quicker and with much less labor
than when the irons are heated in or over a fire, also the heat can be more easily
regulated.
In place of heating the upper and lower plates by separate heating apparatus one
heating apparatus may be employed connected with the irons by a joint, so that
the irons can be turned and submitted alternately to the flame.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said George Barons Northcote in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th November 1876.
GEORGE BARONS NORTHCOTE, of Finch Villa, Heathfield Road, Handsworth, War-
wickshire. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MAKING WAFERS."
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for making wafers.
The apparatus consists of two iron plates, having handles attached and hinged
together. The lower plate is supported in a horizontal position on a stand, being
made firm in that position, and it is heated by gas burning under it, or by a lamp.
The upper plate works on the hinge so that the plates can be shut together or
opened apart at will. Attached to the top side of the upper plate there is also a
gas-burning apparatus which moves with it and continues to burn whether the
plates are open or shut. The heat can be regulated independently to both top and
bottom plate by taps regulating the supply of gas to each.
To use the apparatus the gas is lighted, this soon heats the two irons, which are
then opened and the batter placed on the lower iron, the irons are then closed and
squeezed tight together. This can also be done by a screw or treadle. If the irons are
of proper heat after a few seconds on opening them the wafer will be found done.
In order that my said Invention may be more fully understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
A
Figure 1 shows the irons or apparatus for making wafers. It consists of two
plates A, A, having handles A1, A2, attached and hinged together by the bolt P.
Figuro 2 is an elevation of the improved apparatus ready for use. The top handle
A of irons is fixed at C by a strap and screw, and the bolt P (Fig. 1) is fixed by
means of a thumb screw at D, Fig. 2, in such a way as to leave the lower handle A³
at liberty to open and shut; hinged also at D is the lever B, B, to one end of which
the lower handle A of the irons is attached by means of clips and the chain and--
weight W, this weight also acts as a balance weight to keep the plates open.
handle is fixed to the other end of B, B, by which the plates A, A, can be opened
and shut; M is a treadle working a bar G which acts on lover B, causing the irons
to shut very tight. A gas burner H is placed under the bottom plate of A, on the top
plate is a burner E, this is partly inclosed by a double casing to keep the heat down
and also to conduct the fumes away from the operator by the pipe L, it is fixed to
the lever B and also to F. The gas is supplied to E from K through F by a joint
at D. I is a tap for regulating one burner, there is another tap on the other side
to regulate the other; O is a table, by lifting this the machine can be wheeled about
on wheel N.
The operation of the apparatus is as follow:-On the pipe K being supplied with
gas tho taps I, I, should be opened and the gas lighted. In a few minutes the
plates A will be hot enough, open the plates, place the batter on the lower plate
and close them by the handle B, when closed press on the treadle M with the foot,
then take the pressure off M and allow the machine to open and the wafer is done,
and the plates A are ready to make another.
Fig. 3 shows an apparatus in which the details of the arrangement are somewhat
modified; A, A, are the plates between which the wafers are made; they are both
the same size; A', the upper, is fixed to a lever N which works on the centre D, the
lower one A is made to slide in a frame which forms part of the frame of appa-
ratus B, B; A has a burner K under it and a spring c which keeps it in a position
shown. The upper plate A¹ has a burner over it which is supplied with gas by the
pipe E, the treadle M acts on this plate A¹ through a bar C and the lever N, it
presses it against the lower plate A and then overcomes the spring c and the two
plates A, A, descend into the frame B, B, by this means the edges of the plates are
cleaned of batter, and on the pressure being removed the plates fly open and the
wafor is finished and another can be made.

page_text: By this method the wafers can be mado much quicker and with much less labour
than when the irons are heated' in or over a fire, also the heat can be more easily
regulated.
.
In place of heating the upper and lower plates by separate heating apparatus one
heating apparatus may be employed connected with the irons by a joint so that the
irons can be turned and submitted alternately to the flame.
In place of gas oil or spirits can be used.
I wish it to be understood that I do not bind myself to the exact details berein
described as they can be modified; thus in Fig. 3 the top plate A¹ can be worked by
a screw as in a press. I claim―
1st. The application of gas for making wafers.
2nd. The application of gas combined with the apparatus.
3rd. The apparatus for folding and working the plates used in making wafers
substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Barons Northcote, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this the Fourteenth day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
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