IMPROVED MECHANISM FOR PULPING, TRITURATING, AND COMMINUTING FOR CULINARY AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francis Charles Seyde, of 55, Warren Street, Fitzroy
Square, in the County of Middlesex, Cook, for the Invention of "IMPROVED
MECHANISM FOR PULPING, TRITURATING, AND COMMINUTING FOR CULINARY AND
OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 11th January 1861, and dated the 17th July 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francis Charles Seyde
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th July 1860.
I, FRANCIS CHARLES SEYDE, of 55, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square, in the
County of Middlesex, Cook, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVED MECHANISM FOR PULPING, TRITURATING, AND COMMINUTING FOR
CULINARY AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
The nature of this Invention consists in constructing mechanism for the
preparation of pulps for cooks' use or other pulp or meats, cooked or raw, or
other substances; the substances to be operated upon by this mechanism
being first scraped or pounded small previous to being submitted to the
machine. This machine consists of a circular sieve (though it might be
polygonal) made of wire or suitable perforated or openwork material into
which the pulp or meat is introduced through a funnel or feeder. In this
sieve is a rubber or rubbing drum made of metal or suitable material (a

page_text: circular form being preferred), with raised portions which give a rough and
uneven surface to it so as to effect the rubbing or triturating necessary to
effect the operation desired; scrapers or cleaners being provided to prevent
any choking or stoppage. The rubber or rubbing drum is attached to an
axle which being turned causes the rubber to abrade the substance under
operation against the inside of the sieve, and as it gets fine enough to pass,
falls through the sieve into the receiver or dish placed beneath.
The sieve may be of various meshes or fineness and changes may probably
be made in the practical details of the mechanism.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Francis Charles Seyde in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 17th January 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
CHARLES SEYDE, of 55, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square, in the County of Middle-
sex, Cook, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent bearing date the Seventeenth day of July, in the year of our Lord,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Francis Charles Seyde, Her special licence that I, the said
Francis Charles Seyde, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Francis Charles Seyde, 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 "IMPROVED MECHANISM FOR PULPING, TRITURATING, AND COMMINU-
TING FOR CULINARY AND OTHER PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Francis Charles Seyde, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands 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 Francis Charles Seyde, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is

page_text: to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof :-
The nature of this Invention consists in constructing improved mechanism
for the preparation of pulps for cooks' use such as those forming the "puree "
soups, or other pulps whether from meats, cooked or raw, or vegetables or
other substances, it being understood that this mechanism is only adapted
to operate upon substances which have been already scraped or pounded and
thereby sufficiently reduced, previous to being submitted to its action. This
mechanism being a substitute for the tammy cloth, and spoons, and large wire
and hair sieves hitherto in use.
The Drawings illustrate this Invention by several different views wherein
similar letters of reference hereafter described are placed upon and denote
similar parts at each and all the Figures. A denotes a sieve which is to be
of circular or approximate circular form, made of wire or any other suitable
openwork fabric and secured at the one end by loops or eyes a, a, provided
thereon to the hooks hereafter described, and also secured at the other
end by means of the screw sockets b, b, and the screws hereafter des-
cribed. This sieve being made of wire tinned after it is woven will be
cleaner than the brass wire sieves heretofore used and more durable, as the
process of tinning after weaving solders the meshes together, the openings
being then cleared out. B denotes a circular or polygonal case consisting
of two circular or nearly circular or polygonal sides with a groove on the
inside of each to allow of the aforesaid sieve being placed and fitted therein,
these two sides being connected and secured together at top by the funnel or
hopper (C,) for feeding the machine at; a* hooks to take into the aforesaid
eyes (a) attached to one end of the sieve. 6* screws passing through a screw
socket 6**, attached to the top of the case and through the aforesaid screw
socket (6) attached to the sieve.
Within the case (A) is a wheel or drum (made of metal or wood) the
circumferential portion of which is made of corrugated or fluted or roughened
metal so as to form a rotative grater or rubber (D,) and through the centre
of this wheel or drum passes a spindle E, provided with a suitable winch
handle for working the machine. F denotes handles for moving the machine
(not shewn in Fig. 2); G, is a plug or presser which may be used in the
funnel to press down the stuff, so as to keep it working. On the inside of
each side of the case there are pieces of curved wire acting as scrapers by
reason that the edge of the rubber or grater strikes against them when
rotating, thus preventing the spaces between the sides of the rubber drum and
the case being choked or stopped up.

page_text: The machine is mounted on suitable standards keeping the sides in position
at the bottom, and the said machine may be affixed to a table by a screw
fastening or otherwise. At the bottom of this machine is placed a dish or
receiver so that as the rubber works the pulp round it may be made to fall
into it. The sieves may be changed, providing several different sizes of mesh
as may be required. The meat or vegetable and the like divided by scraping,
pounding, or otherwise is to be put in at the hopper or feeder and may be kept
down by the plug, when it is caught by the rubber or grater and is carried
round and rubbed or grated against, and when fine enough through the sieve
into the receiver or dish placed beneath. Rotary motion being obtained by
turning the spindle aforesaid by manual force (applied to the said winch
handle) or by other power.
The materials of which this machine is made may be varied and the exact
form may be departed from so long as it is capable of working as described,
but metal will generally be preferred and the form usually that described.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed I declare that I claim the use of the before
described rubber or grater, and sieve combined in manner herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Francis Charles Seyde, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
FRANCIS CHARLES SEYDE. (L.S.)
Signed, and sealed, in my
presence,
F. W. CAMPIN,
Patent Agent, 156, Strand.