IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN KINDS OF CONFECTIONERY."
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Campion, of Louth, in the County of
Lincoln, for the Invention of "IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE USED IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN KINDS OF CONFECTIONERY."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Campion at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
28th October 1871.
I, JOHN CAMPION, of Louth, in the County of Lincoln, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE
USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CERTAIN KINDS OF CONFECTIONERY," to be as
follows:-
My Invention relates to a machine for cutting up strips of sugar in a
soft state in the manufacture of certain kinds of confectionery known
variously in the trade as "bulls' eyes or "pincushions," ""mint shells"
or "pennetts."
"

page_text: The apparatus consists of two pairs of rollers, each mounted on its own
spindle in bearings in a bɔx, and disposed the one pair at right angles to
the other. The four rollers are geared together by mitre wheels cast on
the side of said rollers, and are all rotated simultaneously by a winch
handle applied to the spindle of one of the rollers. Each roller is
furnished with a series of angular knives or pressers on its periphery,
and the rollers are so geared that the knives or pressers of the two pairs
meet alternately in the centre of the machine. The box is provided with
openings and guides on two opposite sides through which the strip of
sugar is passed and cut or pressed by the knives or pressers of the two
pairs of rollers acting alternately at right angles to one another as already
mentioned. These knives are formed with blunt edges so as to compress
the sugar into the desired form as well as divide it. It is preferable that
the knives should not actually meet and therefore not quite separate the
pieces (which leave the machine in a continuous string), to prevent them
sticking to one another whilst cooling, after which they may be casily
broken apart.
This kind of confectionery is usually striped on the surface with sugar
of a different color to the compound of which it is composed, the said
stripes being applied to the mass before it is drawn out into lengths to
be passed into the machine, one advantage of my machine being that it
does not damage the ornamental stripe.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Campion in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 27th April 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
CAMPION, of Louth, in the County of Lincoln, send grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Campion, Her special licence
that I, the said John Campion, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said John Campion, my executors,

page_text: quite separate the pieces (which leave the machine in a continuous
string) to prevent them sticking to one another whilst cooling, after
which they may be easily broken apart.
This kind of confectionery is usually striped on the surface with
sugar
of a different color to the compound of which it is composed, the
said stripes being applied to the mass before it is drawn out into lengths
to be passed into the machine, the advantages of my machine being that
it does not damage the ornamental stripe as by the usual method of
cutting up the stick, besides effecting a great saving of time.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a plan and Figure 2 a central vertical section of my
improved apparatus.
A is a box or frame of suitable form which may be of cast iron and is
to be bolted to a suitable support by the base A' which is preferably cast
in an inclined position relatively to the body of the box in order that the
apparatus may be fixed in a convenient position for working. B, B, C, C,
are the two pairs of rollers mounted on their respective spindles b, b, c, c,
which are fitted in bearings bored in the box A for their reception, as
shown; all the rollers are loose on their spindles except the lower roller
C which is fast on its spindle c, the same being prolonged in order that
a winch handle D may be applied at one end to work the apparatus.
Each wheel or roller has cast on or attached to each side of it a mitre
wheel or ring of teeth d, the four rollers being similar in every respect,
and the two B, B, of one pair gearing with each of the others C, C, as
shown, so that the whole rotate together. e are the knives or pressers
cast on or fixed to the peripheries of the rollers, each of which is provided
with an equal number of pressers varying according to the diameter of
the wheels and the size of the sweet to be produced. The knives of
wheels B, B, meet together at the centre of the machine alternately with
those of wheels C, C, as shown in Figure 2. The soft stick of sugar
to be cut up is presented to these knives through an opening shown
by dotted lines 9 (Figure 2) in the side of box A, and after passing
through between the roller knives by which it is cut and formed as shewn
at Fig. 3, as before described, it passes out at a similar opening at the
opposite side on to an inclined plate ƒ fixed to the side of box A.
Figure 3 represents the sweet produced by the machine and known by
the various names before mentioned.

page_text: Having described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of per-
forming the same, I declare that what I claim as my Invention to be
protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the
combination of two pairs of wheels or rollers provided with cutters or
pressers arranged and operating substantially as herein-before described
and shown in the Drawings annexed for the purpose specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Campion, have hereunto set
my hand and scal, this Twenty-fourth day of April, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
JOHN CAMPΙΟΝ. (L.8.)