IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MAKING CERTAIN KINDS OF SWEETMEATS
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Eliza Ramsden, of Leicester, in the County of Leicester,
Confectioner, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MAKING
CERTAIN KINDS OF SWEETMEATS."
Sealed the 4th December 1877, and dated the 1st August 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Eliza Ramsden at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st August 1877.
ELIZA RAMSDEN, of Leicester, in the County of Leicester, Confectioner. " IM-
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MAKING CERTAIN KINDS OF SWEETMEATS."
This Invention refers to apparatus to be employed for the purpose of making
sweetmeats of a ball or spheroidal form, instead of making them of such form by
hand as hitherto practised. With this view I employ a plate of wood or metal,
upon which is sunk a series of grooves of any desired section, according to the form
of article I desire to produce. The ridges between each groove have their edges
serrated, and form thus a series of saw-toothed cutters; this is the bed or bottoni
plate. A second and similar plate, with its grooves and cutters arranged to corre-
spond with the bed plate, is used as a top plate. The sugar or other material in
the form of a rod and slightly warned is laid between these plates, when the upper
one is worked horizontally over the lower, and by this action the rod is cut up into
flattened spheres. Continuing the operation removes the edges, and produces a
globular, spheroidal, or other similar form, according to the form of the grooves in
the plates.
The top plate need not be grooved for some forms, but may be a frame carrying
a number of band saws corresponding to the number in the under plate.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Eliza Ramsden in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 31st January
1878.
ELIZA RAMSDEN, of Leicester, in the County of Leicester, Confectioner. "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MAKING CERTAIN KINDS OF SWEETMEATS."
This Invention refers to apparatus to be employed for the purpose of making
sweetmeats of a ball or spheroidal form, instead of making them of such form by
hand as hitherto practised. With this view I employ a plate of wood or metal,
upon which is sunk a series of grooves of any desired section, according to the form
of article I desire to produce. The ridges between each groove have their edges
serrated, and form thus a series of saw-toothed cutters; this is the bed or bottom
plate. A second and similar plate, with its grooves and cutters arranged to corre-
spond with the bed plate, is used as a top plate. The sugar or other material in
the form of a rod and slightly warmed is laid between these plates, when the upper
one is worked horizontally over the lower, and by this action the rod is cut up into
flattened spheres. Continuing the operation removes the edges, and produces a
globular, spheroidal, or other similar form, according to the form of the grooves in
the plates.
The top plate need not be grooved for some forms, but may be a frame carrying a
number of band saws corresponding to the number in the under plate.
The annexed Drawing represents in perspective view such an apparatus as I have
described.
(a) is a plate, which may be made of wood or metal, or both combined, and on
which plate are formed the grooves (b), furnished at their ridges with cutters (c) ;
(d) is a frame, in which band saws (e) are mounted in number corresponding to the
cutters (c). The sticks of sweetmeat having been rolled out to guage in length and
thickness, are to be laid about six or eight at a time on the bottom part of the
apparatus, when the top frame is to be lowered, and a gentle to-and-fro pressure
used at first, then a clear long sweep, and finish with a quick short motion. The
balls thus produced by cutting up the sticks under the cutters may be further
rounded, if necessary, by rolling them in a sieve.
Instead of the frame of band saws, a counterpart of the lower plate may be used
if desired.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I claim the improvements in apparatus for making certain
kinds of sweetmeats, as herein more fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Eliza Ramsden, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
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DAMSDEN