Year: 1888

page_text: 1 HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co. Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 :-
This invention relates to machinery for manufacturing confectionery and especially
confectionery lozenges and is an improvement upon the inventions described in prior
Letters Patent Nos. 2928 of 1883 and 12,484 of 1884, and it consists in certain novel
features of construction, arrangement and combination of parts.
The machine described in Letters Patent No. 2928 of 1883 was designed originally
for feeding the sugar paste into sticks or rods but by an improvement in the
discharging nozzle now embodied in this application it has been used for moulding the
paste into a sheet or ribbon of say six or eight inches in width and about one-half an
inch in thickness, more or less.
The sheet or ribbon so formed was then taken by hand from said machine and
transferred to the feeding apron of the machine described in Letters Patent No. 12,484
of 1884 where it was further reduced in thickness, planished and then cut into
lozenges.

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This mode of operation involved the running of two independent machines and an
extra handling of the material which this invention obviates.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a machine embodying this invention.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same.
Figure 3 is a transverse vertical section on line 1, 7 on Figures 1 and 2 looking
toward the delivery end of said machine, said figure being drawn to an enlarged
scale.
Figure 4 is a vertical longitudinal section of a portion of the delivery end of the
machine also drawn to an enlarged scale.
Figure 5 is a side elevation of the upper portion of Figure 4 looking in the opposite
direction to that in which Figure 4 is viewed and drawn to the same scale as
Figures 3 and 4.
Figures 6 and 7 are details illustrating the manner of vibrating the printing form,
and holding it in position while giving an impression or taking ink.
Figures 8 and 9 are respectively a plan and an elevation of the oscillating type
carrying bar.
Figures 10 and 11 are respectively an elevation and a transverse section of the
stripper bar.
Figures 12, 13 and 14 are respectively an end elevation, a transverse section and a
front elevation of the rectangular discharge nozzle for forming the sheet of sugar
paste, and Figure 15 is an inverted plan of a portion of the cutters, the embossing
and printing bars and the bail like stand for carrying said bars.
Figure 16 is a partial longitudinal section illustrating a modification to be herein-
after referred to.
In the drawings A A are the side frames of the machine connected together by the
tie girts A', A' and the plates A2 and P as shown in Figure 2.
.
Upon the plate A is mounted the vertical cylinder B provided with the revolving
screw piston B and one or more horizontal screw feeders B all constructed, arranged
and operating substantially as described in the said Letters Patent No. 2928 of 1883
and with the inclined feed table B³ from which the material is fed to the cylinder B,
from which it is discharged in the form of a sheet or ribbon a through the rectangular
opening in the nozzle as shown in Figure 2.
The nozzle C has pivoted therein the plate & the free or outer edge of which may be
adjusted by the set screw 62 for the purpose of varying the thickness of the sheet of
material that can be delivered therefrom as shown in Figures 2, 13 and 14.
The sheet of material a when delivered from said nozzle falls upon the inner end of
the apron mounted upon the rolls 63 and 6 and is carried by said apron beneath the
endless band or apron e mounted upon the rolls c¹ and 2 and upon the moving
apron or endless band mounted upon the rolls and as shown in Figure 2.
The sheet of material, as it passes from the apron c3 where said apron passes around
the roll is turned downward between the pressure rolls d and d' where it is reduced
in thickness and compacted, and then between the planishing rolls and d³ and
deposited upon the moving apron e mounted upon the rolls e', e² and e³ as shown.
The rolls d and d' are partially surrounded by the endless bands or aprons d' and d
respectively which extend to and partially surround the rolls d and d' respectively as
shown.
The aprons b, c, d and do cach have placed thereon a quantity of flour or powdered
starch within a shallow hopper or receptacle of which said apron forms a moving
bottom as described in said Letters Patent No. 12,484 of 1884 whereby the sheet or
ribbon of paste has deposited upon each side thereof a thin coating of said flour or
starch to prevent it from adhering to any of the aprons or the planishing rolls.
The aprons b, c, d and d³ may be made taut by adjusting the rolls b, c, d and d
in any well known manner.
The screw pistons or feeders B1 and B2 are driven from the shaft D in the same
manner as described in the before mentioned Letters Patent 2928 said shaft D being

page_text: driven by a belt (not shown) leading from the driving pulley D₁ to any suitable
counter-shaft not shown.
The shaft D has mounted thereon the pulley D² from which the belt D³ leads to the
pulley D* mounted upon the shaft I³ which has its bearings in the frames A. A and
has secured thereon the pinion g which engages with and imparts motion to the gear
wheel on the shaft also mounted in bearings in the frames A A and having
mounted thereon the pinion g³ which engages with and imparts motion to the gear
wheel E mounted upon one end of the shaft of the roll 63, the opposite end of which
shaft has secured thereon the gear wheel which engages with and imparts motion to
the gear wheel mounted upon the shaft of the roll c as shown.
The shaft of the roll 63 has mounted thereon a pulley from which the belt / leads
to a similar pulley on the roll c³ for the purpose of revolving said roll in unison
with the roll and imparting motion to the apron c³ for conveying the sheet of paste a
to a position to be delivered to the pressure rolls d and as shown.
The upper portions of the endless belts cand e are supported between their
carrying rolls, by the bedplates or tables c and et respectively as shown in Figures 2
and 3.
Motion is imparted to the rolls d, d', d² and d³, and the aprons d' and d³ from the
roll e by means of the gear wheels i5, 16, 17, 18, 19, 10, 11, and ¿¹³,
The endless apron e has an intermittent motion imparted thereto by means of the
crank pin i set in the disc mounted upon one end of the shaft F the connecting
rod F, the lever, the pawl 3 and the ratchet wheel mounted on the shaft of the
roll e in substantially the same manner as described in said Letters Patent No. 12,484,
of 1884.
The shaft F has mounted thereon the gear wheel F with which the pinion F³
mounted upon the shaft G engages to impart to said shaft F a rotary motion said
shaft G being revolved by means of the pulley G mounted thereon and a belt leading
therefrom to a suitable counter-shaft, which may be the same from which the shaft D
is driven or an independent one as may be preferred, caro being taken to so
proportion the several pulleys that said shafts G and D shall be driven at the proper
relative speed.
The shaft F has mounted thereon two eccentrics H and H' which work in slots in
the lower ends of the vertical bars H2 and H³ respectively in such a manner as to
impart to said bars a vertical reciprocating motion, said bars being fitted to slide in
dovetailed bearings in the inner faces of the stands I and I¹ bolted to the upper edges
of the frames A. A as shown.
To these bars H and H³ is bolted the horizontal bar H having set therein a series
of tubular cutters kk which project downward therefrom and surround the fixed
pistons suspended from the underside of a fixed bar, said cutters when moved
downward to cut lozenges from the sheet of material a passing through holes in the
fixed bar J supported upon the raised ribs of the bed plate e as shown in Figure 3.
The shaft Falso has inounted thereon the eccentric m which works in the strap end
of the eccentric rod m' which in turn is connected to the lever m² firmly secured upon
the rocker shaft m³ mounted in bearings in the frames A and carrying the two arms m² m²
the free ends of which are connected to the rods n n having bearings in the stands I
and I and carrying at their opposite ends the reciprocating lozenge carrying plate n¹
all constructed and operating substantially as described in said Letters Patent
No. 12,484 of 1884, except that the plate n' instead of having a jointed flap as
described in said Patent, has a fixed raised rib n² upon its inner edge, and except also
that instead of the lozenge being brushed from the inner edge of said plate as said
plate is moving outward as described in said Patent, the lozenge is removed from the
outer edge of said plate as it is moving inward after having been moved outward as
will be further described.
The plate n' also has at each end thereof the raised cam shaped rib n³ ³ arranged
to act upon the pendent arms of the elbow levers n pivoted upon the arms or rods n³
to move said levers about their pivots, and raise or lower the stripper bar J¹ fitted to

page_text: move vertically in slots n° formed in the outer ends of the arms
Figures 1 and 4.
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The stripper J is composed of the central plate o arranged to fit the slots n and to
rest upon the free ends of the horizontal arms of the elbow levers n' at o', the two
plates o² and o³, and the sheet or plate of vulcanized rubber o all secured together by
screws or rivets as shown in Figures 10 and 11.
When the plate n¹ is moved outward after having received from the cutters a
series of lozenges, the outer throws of the cams n³ coming in contact with the pendent
arms of the levers n causes the stripper bar to be raised and held in such raised
position until the lozenges on said plate have passed outward beyond the rubber flap
of the stripper bar when the inner throws of the cams n³ will have passed from
beneath the levers n when the stripper bar will descend to a position with the lower
edge of the rubber flap of on a level with the upper surface of the platen behind the
lozenges and as the plate n' is again moved inward the lozenges are brushed from said
plate by said flap of, or more literally the lozenges are prevented from moving back by
said flap after they come in contact therewith and the plate is moved from beneath
them, and they fall upon the apron p mounted upon the roll p, and another roll, (not
shown) that may be at a considerable distance from the roll p, and mounted upon an
independent stand, from which apron the lozenges are delivered to a board or
receptacle provided for the purpose.
Motion is imparted to the roll p¹ by the gear wheels K and L mounted respectively
on the shaft F and the shaft of the roll p¹ as shown in Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4.
A standard M is firmly secured to the upper end of each of the stands I and I¹ in
such a manner that it may be readily removed by simply slackening the nuts p², p²
and raising said standard to lift the holding bolt out of the open slot p³, in the stand I.
and 1.
In bearings formed in the upper ends of the standards M is mounted the roll 7 and
in bearings formed in the lower ends.of said standards are mounted the two smaller
rolls and the impression bar or platen g around which is strained the endless
band of cloth, to serve as a color pad, upon which coloring matter for printing
mottoes in color upon the lozenges is distributed from the color roll by the
cylindrical brush assisted by the distributing roll as shown in Figure 4.
Rotary motion is imparted to the brush by means of the belt leading from the
pulley N on the shaft G to the pulley N on the shaft of said brush as shown in
Figure 4 and the roll is revolved by means of the pinion and gear wheel 26
mounted respectively on the shaft of said brush ¹ and the shaft of said roll as shown
in Figure 1.
A bail like stand O is securely bolted to each of the vertically reciprocating bars H
and so as to move up and down therewith upon the lower bar of which is
adjustably secured the bar 7 from which is suspended so as to be adjustable vertically,
by means of the threaded bolts and the nuts 8 and 9, the bar s, having formed in,
or secured to, its under side a series of dies adapted to emboss upon the sheet of
sugar paste a row of ornamental figures or designs corresponding in number and
distance apart from centre to centre, with the number and distance apart of the
cutters said bar being secured to the stand O at a distance from the centre
of the line of cutters, corresponding to a multiple of the distance which said
sheet of paste is fed forward at cach intermittent movement thereof all substantially
as described in the before mentioned. Letters Patent 12,484 of 1884.
O is a rocker-shaft mounted in bearings s¹ adjustably secured to the lower bar
of the stand O by means of bolts arranged to be interchangeably inserted in either
of the holes s formed in said bar for the purpose as shown in Figure 15.
The shaft O projects beyond its bearings at each end and has formed upon
one of said projecting portions a tooth which engages with the rack like
teeth formed on the edge of the stand I as said shaft is moved up and down
with the stands O thereby imparting to said shaft a semi-rotation about its axis,
see Figure 6.

page_text: The opposite projecting end of said shaft is made square and acts in conjunction
with the edge of the stand I to maintain said shaft in a fixed position as to
rotation after it has been moved about its axis a half revolution both in its
upward and downward movement, the edge of said stand I' having a
formed therein at the proper point and of the proper length to permit the
rotation of said shaft when the tooth engages with the teeth all as shown
in Figure 7.
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The shaft O' has suspended therefrom by means of the threaded bolts, and
nuts, the bar 8 which may be adjusted towards or from said shaft by said bolts
and nuts and the set screws as shown in Figures 8 and 9.
The bar has secured thereto the plate t of type metal having cast thereon a
series of mottoes the type composing which project from the surface of said plate,
and in the operation of the machine are alternately brought into contact with the
endless belt pad to take colour therefrom and into contact with the upper
surface of the sheet of sugar paste a to print said mottoes thereon, these operations
being accomplished by the upward and downward movement of the stands O and
the bars Hand H³, caused by the rotation of the eccentrics H and H¹.
In order to present a fresh portion of the colour band to the type at each upward
movement thereof the band q³ has imparted thereto an intermittent movement around
the rolls and q¹ q² as follows:-
The shaft of the roll has loosely mounted thereon one end of a toggle link t³,
which in turn is pivoted to the stand at 3 as shown in Figures 4 and 5.
To the link is pivoted the pawl the toe of which is held in contact with
the periphery of the ratchet wheel to, secured upon the shaft of said roll q, by
the preponderance of weight in the long or outer arm of said pawl, the whole
being so arranged that every downward movement of the stand O causes a partial
straightening of the toggle and as a consequence thereof a partial rotation of the
g and a movement of the colour band around the same.
roll
When the stand 0 is again moved upward the pawl is carried backward over
the teeth of the ratchet wheel 5 preparatory to its engaging with another tooth
of said wheel when the stand O is again moved downward.
P is the inclined plate down which the waste from which the lozenges have
been cut, slides and falls into any suitable receptacle provided for the purpose.
The rubber flap of of the stripper bar J' has its lower edge divided into a
series of sections by vertical slits as shown in Figure 10 so as to present less resistance,
in case a lozenge should stick to the plate n' when said plate is moving backward
beneath the stripper bar.
The operation of this invention will be readily understood from the foregoing
without further explanation.
In some cases it is proposed to dispense with the aprons c³d and d and the
rolls c d d d and d and place the rolls d2 and d³ directly below the rolls 6³
and respectively, said rolls 63 and being adjusted to the proper distance
apart as shown in Figure 15 whereby the machine may be considerably reduced in
length.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
:-
First. The combination of the intermittently moving belt or apron e the shaft F,
the eccentric H and H, the bars H2 and H³, the series of cutters carried by
said bars, the oscillating shaft O₁ also carried by said bars and having one end
thereof squared and having formed upon the other end the tooth the type
plate or form t carried thereby, the stand I provided with the teeth, the stand I
provided with the curved or cut away place 5, the rolls q and q q¹ the endless
colour carrying belt 23, the ratchet wheel t, the pawl, and the toggle links t¹ (2
all arranged and operating substantially as described.

page_text: Second. The combination of the intermittently moving apron e, the series of
vertically moving cutters k, the horizontally reciprocating lozenge receiving plate n'
provided with the cams n³, the stripper har J, and the elbow levers n all
constructed and arranged to operate substantially as described.
Third. The stripper bar J¹ provided with the pendant rubber flap o in com-
bination with the reciprocating carrier plate n¹, the vertically reciprocating cutter k,
and the endless belt e all arranged and adapted to operate substantially as described.
Fourth. The combination of the apron e, the cutters k, the plate n¹, and the
stripper bar J provided with the pendent rubber flap o divided into sections by
vertical slits substantially as described.
Dated this 10th day of January 1888
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.