Improvements in Machines for Cutting and Stamping Lozenges Biscuits, and other Soft Substances.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Mar., 1898-Accepted, 6th Aug., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED).
Improvements in Machines for Cutting and Stamping Lozenges
Biscuits, and other Soft Substances.
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I, CHARLES ALBERT SMITH, of 151, Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park, in the
County of Middlesex, Medical Assistant, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of any invention is to provide a cheaper and more simple means of
cutting and stamping and expelling from the machine lozenges, biscuits and other
soft substances without the use of plungers. Drawings of my said invention (except
so far as the supplying of pneumatic force is concerned) accompany this specification
and
Fig. 1 represents an external perspective view of the machine.
Fig. 2 represents a side elevation of part of the machine shewing how the plate F
hereinafter mentioned swings to the side.
Fig. 3 represents a perspective view of the interior of the box and chamber herein-
after mentioned with one side or cover off and shewing one system of air channels to
the cutters.
Fig. 4 represents a horizontal section of cutters of circular shape.
Fig. 5 represents to a smaller scale the cover which forms one side of the said box
or chamber.
Fig. 6 represents a side view of the machine without the levers.
My invention is a machine consisting of a box or chamber C (Fig. 3) of any suit-
able size or shape (and with or without divisions forming air chambers). The end B
is provided with means for the supply of compressed air, which may be brought from
any pump bellows or fan through tube, A, the two opposite-ends of which-B-and-W
(Fig 3)-are-open and the one-end B (Figs. 1 & 3) is attached to a tube A
(Figs. 13): The other end M (Figs. 1 & 3) is attached by screws or other suitable
fastenings to the plate O (Figs. 1, 3 & 6) which is perforated through to the cutters
and to which are attached the cutters E (Figs. 1, 3, & 6). There may be any number
of such cutters and they may be of any suitable size and shape. On either side of
the said box or chamber near the bottom M ate two pins H (Figs. 1, 2 & 3) on which
swing the arms G (Figs. 1 and 2) which are attached to the plate F (Figs. 1 & 2).
On one outer side of the said box or chamber C are two levers D (Figs. 1 & 2) which
are attached to the said box or chamber by pivots. The outer ends of the said
levers D rest on the said arms G, and on the under side of the said plate F are raised
or sunk letters K (Fig. 1) or other patterns designs devices figures or marks which
are pressed or stamped on to the paste or dough of the lozenges biscuits or other
substance. The said box or chamber may be so made as to constitute one box or

page_text: chamber only for the air force hereinafter mentioned to pass through or it may be so
made as to contain separate channels for each one or more cutters.
the
In working this improved machine my invention I hold that-part-of-it-outside
said box or chamber with both hands and I then press the plate F on to the said
paste dough or other substance so as to imprint, impress or stamp thereon the pattern
design device figure or mark. Then I raise the machine and press the said levers D
apart and upwards as shewn by the dotted lines (Figs. 1 & 2) and the other ends of the
levers resting on the said arms G press the said arms downward and so swing the said
plate. F up to the side and out of the way of the said cutters E which cutters I then
press into and they cut the said paste dough or other substance into shape. I then lift or
raise the machine out of the said paste dough or other substance and by the aid of com-
pressed air from pneumatic-pressure-or-force-passing in the tube-A-by-manns-ef
a pump bellows or fan, I press or force the shaped lozenges biscuits or other sub-
stances out.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to he performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
(1) The apparatus for expelling or ejecting, by means of compressed air, paste for
principle-of-pneumatic-power or force to expel or eject the lozenges biscuits or and
the like and other plastic substances out of the cutters, substantially as herein described.
(2) The combination of apparatus for expelling or ejecting paste for lozenges, biscuits,
and the like, or other plastic substances out of cutters by means of compressed air with
apparatus for A machine substantially as above-described-combining the principle
of expulsion or ejectment by pneumatic force or power with the stamping impressing
or marking letters or other patterns designs devices figures or marks upon the portions
cut out substantially as herein described.
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