IMPROVEMENTS IN MOULDS OR RECEPTACLES TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OR REFINING OF SUGAR "
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Duncan, of Mincing Lane in the City of London,
and Benjamin Edward Reina Newlands, of Clyde Wharf, Victoria Docks,
in the County of Essex for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MOULDS
OR RECEPTACLES TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OR REFINING OF
SUGAR
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Duncan and Benjamin
Edward Reina Newlands at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
19th July 1883.
JAMES DUNCAN, of Mincing Lane in the City of London, and BENJAMIN.
EDWARD REINA NEWLANDS, of Clyde Wharf, Victoria Docks, in the County of
Essex, "IMPROVEMENTS IN MOULDS OR RECEPTACLES TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE
MANUFACTURE OR REFINING OF SUGAR
"
Our Invention has for its object to so construct moulds or receptacles into which
molten sugar is cast and treated that currents of air can beneficially and rapidly
exert their drying effect upon the contents of the said moulds or receptacles.
According to our said Invention we provide the mould with a series of recesses or
internal spaces which are unfilled with sugar when the other parts of the mould
are filled. These spaces are preferably formed by wedge shaped hollow pieces
projecting into the body of the mould, so that the body of the sugar in the mould
is never at any one part more than, say about, two inches thick, and the air is thus
caused to act favourably and rapidly upon the sugar in the mould to cool and
solidify it, without the loss of time which occurs with moulds as ordinarily
constructed

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said James Duncan and Benjamin Edward Reina Newlands in the
Patent Office on the 19th January 1884.
JAMES DUNCAN of Mincing Lane in the City of London and BENJAMIN
EDWARD REINA NEWLANDS of Clyde Wharf Victoria Docks in the County of
Essex "IMPROVEMENTS IN MOULDS OR RECEPTACLES TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE
MANUFACTURE OR REFINING OF SUGAR
"
Our Invention has for its object to so construct moulds or receptacles into which
molten sugar is cast and treated that currents of air can beneficially and rapidly
exert their drying effect upon the contents of the said moulds or receptacles.
According to our said Invention we provide the mould with a series of recesses or
internal spaces which are unfilled with sugar when the other parts of the mould
are filled. These spaces are preferably formed by wedge shaped hollow pieces
projecting into the body of the mould and to give the best effect it is desirable
that the body of the sugar in the mould is never at any one part. more than say
about two inches thick as the air is thus caused to act most favourably and rapidly
upon the sugar in the mould to cool and solidify it without the loss of time which
occurs with moulds as ordinarily constructed.
And in Order that our said Invention may be fully understood we shall now
proceed more particularly to describe the same and for that purpose shall refer to
the several figures on the annexed sheet of drawings the same letters of reference
indicating corresponding parts in all the figures.
Figure 1 represents in plan and Figure 2 in vertical section a sugar mould or
receptacle constructed in accordance with our Invention. The said mould or
receptacle has a number of recesses or internal spaces with inclined sides converging
inwards as at a formed by the wedge shaped pieces b attached to the inside of the
mould so as to project into the interior of the mould and extending from top to
bottom thereof. Into or through these spaces a air can pass either by the ends of
the said spaces or through the outer sides of the said spaces being left open or being
perforated. Figure 3 is a plan and Figure 4 a vertical section of a conical mould
provided with air spaces according to our Invention We wish it to be understood
that we do not limit ourselves to the number form or distance apart of the spaces a
as they may be varied without departing from the nature of our Invention. Nor
do we limit ourselves to the method shown of forming the said spaces as they may
be formed in any other suitable way for example they may be formed from the
metal of the sides of the mould being pressed or bent into the requisite shape or
they may be formed on or attached to the lids or covers or loose sides of the mould
so as to be drawn out when the lids covers or sides are removed.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into effect we
would observe in conclusion that what we consider to be novel and original and
therefore clain as' the Invention secured to us by the herein before in part recited
Letters Patent is:-
First. Providing moulds or receptacles employed in the manufacture or refining
of sugar with internal recesses or spaces which are unfilled with sugar when the
other parts of the moulds or receptacles are filled, substantially as and for the
purpose hereinbefore described.
Second. Providing moulds or receptacles employed in the manufacture or refining
of sugar with internal recesses or spaces which are of a wedge shape or with inclined

page_text: sides converging inwards and which are unfilled with sugar when the other parts
of the moulds or receptacles are filled, substantially as and for the purpose
herein before described.
In witness whereof I the said Benjamin Edward Reina Newlands on behalf of
James Duncan and myself have hereunto set my hand and seal this eighteenth
day of January One thousand eight hundred and eighty four.