A New or Improved Confection Cutting Apparatus.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 15th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 20th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Confection Cutting Apparatus.
I, ANDREW RICHMOND of Ayr, in the County of Ayr, North Britain,
Confectioner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :--
This invention relates to an apparatus of simple construction, and whereby bars
or pieces of confection can be cut or divided ready for the market, without being
touched by operators hand after.
According to my invention the apparatus consists of two wood or other bars
hinged together at one end, and provide with knives or cutters set transversely
therein. The aforesaid bars are provided with a spring or an elastic device so as
to keep them apart and allow the bar of confection to be laid over the bottom
knives; the confection being cut or divided by bringing the bars and knives
together.
The confection is or may be withdrawn or lifted from the knives by a lifter,
consisting of a frame set with thin broad teeth or reeds, so as to pass between the
knives of cutter.
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D. F. MASON,
Patent Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Confection Outting Apparatus.
, ANDREW RICHMOND of Ayr in the County of Ayr, North Britain,
Confectioner, 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 said invention relates to an apparatus of simple construction, and whereby
bars or pieces of confection can be cut or divided ready for the market, without
being touched by operators hands afterwards, so that the surface of finished confec-
tion retains the glossy or satinett appearance assumed in the cutting operation
And in order that my invention may be properly understood I have appended an
explanatory sheet of drawings whereon Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the cutting
apparatus and Fig. 2 a plan of the lifting appliance, by which the confection is
withdrawn or lifted after being cut.
According to my invention the cutting apparatus consists of two wooden or other
bars a al hinged together at one end 6 by means of metal side stripes c fastened to
sides of bars a a'. The said bars may be of any convenient breadth the lower one a
being laid flat on, or fastened to, a table or bench, the upper bar al having an
operating handle d. The lower bar a may have an upright standard e fixed
thereon with a hook i on top thereof, to which may be attached an elastic or india-
rubber band also attached at lower end to the bar a so as normally to keep the
bar a' up from the bar u. In lieu of said elastic device to keep the bars a a¹
normally open or apart, a spring (not shown) may be inserted between the bars a a¹
at hinged end. The top side of bar and lower side of bar a are provided with
transverse metallic knives or cutters a fixed transversely therein, so that when
the upper bar a is depressed towards the lower bar a the edges of said knives an
shall meet or come opposite each other, so as to cut or divide the confection laid
between them.
The lifting appliance for withdrawing the confection from cutter, consists of a

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thin metallic sheet having spaces the same distance apart as the knives n of cutter,
cut out from said sheet, thus leaving thin reeds or teeth r. The back of reed
plate is fitted with a ridge frame o having handles for lifting it.
The unent confection in bar shape, is laid or placed over the knives of lower
bar a, and the upper bar al is pressed down by handled towards bar a thus cutting
or dividi
the confection bar. The upper bar is then raised from lower bar a
and then the confection is removed by the lifter, the thin teeth or reeds r of which
are slid under, and whereby, the confection can be lifted out from between teeth n
without requiring to be touched by operators hand.
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:
1st. An apparatus for cutting confection consisting of the bars a a', hinged
together at one end, and provided with transverse knives n', the upper har a
being provided with an elastic or spring opening device m; all substantially as
hereinbefore set forth.
2nd. In combination with a confection cutting apparatus, the use of a lifting
appliance constructed as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
Dated this 14th day of January 1892.
DAVID F. MASON,
Glasgow, Patent Agent.