IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF LOZENGES, WAPERS, OR PASTILLES OF PASTY MATERIALS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Jules Derriey, of No. 21, Ancien Chemin
de Ronde Ménilmontant, Boulevard Belleville, Paris, in the Empire of
France, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE
MANUFACTURE OF LOZENGES, WAPERS, OR PASTILLES OF PASTY MATERIALS."
Sealed the 18th September 1866, and dated the 2nd April 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by tho said Joseph Jules Derriey
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd April 1866.
I, JOSEPH JULES DERRIEY, of No. 21, Ancien Chemin do Ronde Ménil-
montant, Boulevard Belleville, Paris, in the Empire of France, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF LOZENGES, WAFERS, OR PASTILLES OF PASTY MATERIALS,"
to be as follows, that is to say :-
The Invention consists in an improved arrangement or construction of
machine for making pastilles or lozenges and other similar articles, and is as
follows: This machine is mounted on a strong iron frame, and consists of a
marble slab for supporting the paste to be made into pastilles, for which
operation three series of cylinders are employed, the space between them being
regulated at will to give the pastilles the required thickness. During the
action of the cylinders they cause the paste to advance a distance equal to the
required size of the pastilles in such manner as to leave but very littlo
cuttings between the pastilles that are formed from the rolled paste. Behind
the laminating cylinders is an endless cloth for conducting the rollel paste in

page_text: front of the machine, where it is made into pastilles in the following
manner In front of the machine is a hollow cylinder containing all the
pastilles, which are cut and stamped in relief on both sides; at each stroke of
the piston this cylinder makes half a turn and deposits the pastilles in a line
on a plank underneath, which gradually advances in the play of the machine.
This plank is placed empty at the back of the machine, and is withdrawn in
front loaded with pastilles. In front of this cylinder is an endless cloth
which carries with it the cuttings separated from the pastilles, which cuttings
are doubled several times to enable a larger quantity to be taken at once,
when they are again passed under the machine to be made into pastilles.
This machine can be worked by hand by means of a crank, or by any other
motive power, and will give, according to its size, from thirty to fourty strokes
of the piston per minute, producing at each stroke from 10 to 40 pastilles of
any desired form. The crank transmits movement to two cog wheels, one of
which in turning gives by means of an excentric a to-and-fro movement to
the stamp carrier, and communicates to the other placed underneath an
alternate rotative movement, which when the pastilles are cut and enclosed in
the cutting cylinder causes the latter to make half a turn, so that the pastilles
may fall on the plank underneath. The driving shaft carries a regulating fly
wheel, and gives motion to a wheel carrying an excentric pin attached to a
connecting rod, which changes the rotative movement to a to-and-fro move-
ment, and causes a click to catch on to a ratchet wheel, which turns the rolling
cylinders, one of which turns the other. The more excentric the pin is the
greater will be the movement communicated to tho cylinder, so as to roll a
quantity of paste proportionate to the required size of the pastilles. In putting
the click in or out of gear a continuous movement is communicated to the
cylinder, which in four or five turns causes the paste to advance just under
the stamps; when there the click is lowered and the paste continues to be
rolled in proportion as the pastilles are cut. This operation permits of
working with greater rapidity.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Jules Derriey in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
1st October 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
JULES DERRIEY, of No. 21, Ancien Chemin de Ronde Ménilmontant,
Boulevard Belleville, Paris, in the Empire of France, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Joseph Jules Derriey, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph
Jules Derriey, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Joseph Jules Derricy, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF LOZENGES, WAFERS, OB
PASTILLES OF PASTY MATERIALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Joseph Jules Derriey, my executors or administrators, by an instru
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their bands 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 Joseph Jules Derriey, do hereby
declare the nature of the 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 Drawing hereunto annexed,
and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say :-
The Invention consists in an improved arrangement or construction of
machine for making pastilles or lozenges and other similar articles. The
machine, which consists of two parts, is mounted on strong iron frames;
it is furnished with a marble slab or table for supporting the paste to be made
into pastilles, for which operation three series of cylinders are employed, the
space between them being regulated at will to give the pastilles the required
thickness. During the action of the cylinders they cause the paste to advanco
a distance equal to the required size of the pastilles, in such manner as to
leave but very little cuttings between the pastilles that are formed from the
rolled paste. Behind the laminating cylinders is an endless cloth for conducting
the rolled paste in front of the machine, where it is made into pastilles in the
following manner:-In front of the machine is a hollow cylinder, in which
the pastilles are cut and stamped in relief on both sides; at each stroke of the
piston this cylinder makes half a turn and deposits the pastilles in a line on a
plank underneath, which gradually advances in the play of the machine.

page_text: This plank is placed empty at the back of the machine and is withdrawn in
front loaded with pastilles. In front of this cylinder is an endless cloth, which
carries with it the cuttings separated from the pastilles, which cuttings are
doubled several times to enable a larger quantity to be taken at once, when
they are again passed under the machine to be made into pastilles.
This machine can be worked by hand, by means of a crank, or by other
suitable mechanism by transmitting movement to two cog wheels, one of
which in turning gives by means of an excentric a to-and-fro movement to the
stamp carrier, and communicates to the other placed underneath an alternate
rotative movement, which when the pastilles are cut and enclosed in the
cutting cylinder causes the latter to make half a turn, so that the pastilles
may fall on the plank underneath. The driving shaft carries a regulating fly
wheel, and gives motion to a wheel carrying an excentric pin attached to a
connecting rod, which when required changes the rotative movement to a to-
and-fro movement by causing a click to catch into a ratchet wheel, which
turns the rolling cylinders, one of which turns the other. The more excentric
the pin is the greater will be the movement communicated to the cylinders, so
as to roll a quantity of paste proportionate to the required size of the pastilles.
In putting the click out of gear a continuous movement is communicated to
the cylinder, which in 4 or 5 turns causes the paste to advance just under the
stamps, when the click is lowered and the paste continues to be rolled in
proportion as the pastilles are cut.
And in order to make my Invention better understood I will now describe
it by reference to the accompanying Drawing, in which Figure 1 is a lon-
gitudinal side elevation of my improved machine for manufacturing lozenges
and pastilles, and Figures 2, 3, and 4, details of some of the parts.
The two parts of which this machine is composed, viz., the first part for
preparing and rolling the paste, and the second part for cutting and stamping
the paste into lozenges, may, if desired, form two distinct machines and be
worked alternately, a certain length of paste being rolled by the first, and
afterwards cut up and stamped by the second. I prefer, however, to form
with the two parts one machine, as shewn in the accompanying Drawing, it
being less bulky and more complete.
A, A, are the two large frames joined together by tie-pieces at different
parts of their surfaces; at the back is placed the table or slab B with ledges,
serving to receive the piece of paste to be made into lozenges or pastilles. In
front of this table are the three series of two cylinders, each for rolling the
paste, viz., C, D, E, F, and G, II; the last are put at different distances apart
50 as to produce successive and gradual laminatings. During these lami

page_text: natings some starch powder is spread over the two surfaces of the paste by
means of the hoppers I, I, and of the lower rolling cylinders. This powder serves
to facilitate the passage and to prepare the paste thus formed to be cut off and
stamped. To properly regulate the quantity of starch powder spread on the
paste there is in front of the last cylinders G, H, a circular brush J moving
in an opposite direction to that of the advance of the paste, and which can
be raised vertically by the hand to allow at the commencement of the
operation of the introduction of the paste, which on the raising of the circular
brush J travels with the endless cloth K, which carries it on the cylinder L to
be cut and stamped. The cylinder L and stamps M are represented in detail
and transverse section at Figures 2 and 3. The paste thus introduced
between the stamps or punches M and the cylinder L is cut up in two rows
and in the whole breadth of the machine. At each vertical movement of the
punch holder M the cylinder L turns half over by the arrangement of the
cog wheels N, O, shewn in detail at Figure 4. In the alternate displacement
of this cylinder the lozenges cut out and stamped are successively turned
downwards, so that the shock produced by the excentrics P carrying the
stumps (Fig. 2) causes the two rows of lozenges to fall on the plank Q,
carried along by the straps S, moved by the working of the machine. The
paste, situated in advance of the punches, that is to say, the cuttings, aro
carried forward by the endless cloth R, and outside the machine, to be again
passed through it. A continuous circular movement is given to the shaft of
the fly wheel by means of a crank arm or other suitable mechanism, and by
the arrangement of the cog wheels and cams the punches cut out and stamp
and the cylinder L turns at the required time in a regular and certain way,
and makes the lozenges fall after they are cut and stamped, as herein-before
described. As soon as one row of lozenges is made the paste advances a short
distance; this advance of the paste is caused by the intermittent movement of
the cylinders G, II, which is given by the pawl or click T, put in motion by
the lever and connecting rod V, which takes its motion from the large
wheel U and the excentric pin V, the excentricity of which may vary at will
according to the required distance the paste is to advance.
The machine is arranged and regulated in this manner when at full work,
but at starting and during the time that the paste takes to get under the
cutting punches and cylinder the rolling and the advance of the paste may be
continuous. To obtain this effect it is only necessary to lift the catch T out
of the ratchet wheel Z, and to put the wheel X in gear by sliding it over its
axle. The required relation of rotation and speed between the crank and tho
three series of laminating cylinders is thus obtained.

page_text: Having thus described my Invention, and the manner of performing the
same, I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the precise
details herein laid down; but what I claim is,―
First, the general arrangement and construction of machinery for the
manufacture of lozenges, wafers, or pastilles of pasty materials, as herein-
before described and shewn in the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly, the peculiar construction and arrangement of the cylinder L in
combination with the vertical stamps or punches M, and the arrangements
for working the same, as herein-before described and represented in the
accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Jules Derriey, have hereto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of September, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-six.
J. J. DERRIEY. (L.S.)