Improvements in and relating to Machinery for Ornamenting in Plastic Material for Confectionery, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Improvements in and relating to Machinery for Ornamenting in
Plastic Material for Confectionery, and the like.
I, REGINALD HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co., of 18 Buckingham
Street, Strand, W.C., London, Patent.Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention, a communication to me from abroad by Daniel Morey Holmes, of. Arlington,
in the County of Hudson, and State of New Jersey, United States of America,
Manufacturer, to be as follows::-
This invention relates especially to devices employed for ornamenting confectionery,
cakes, &c., with chocolate, or other plastic material, and has for its object the
provision of a machine for applying such ornamentation automatically in .a
predetermined manner.
The invention consists in an elevated tank for plastic material provided with a
series of movable discharge conduits, so arranged that they may be moved in any
direction horizontally by means of a series of levers passing from a controlling
pattern. A support is provided for the goods to be ornamented, and my device may
be used independently or in conjunction with a machine for .coating the body of
confectionery.
Improvements in and relating to Machinery for Ornamenting in
Plastic Material for Confectionery, and the like.
I, REGINALD HADDAN of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co., 18 Buckingham
Street, Strand W.C., London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention a communication to me from abroad by Daniel Morey Holmes, of Arlington,
in the County of Hudson, and State of New Jersey, United States of America,
Manufacturer, and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates especially to devices employed for coating confectionery with
chocolate, or other plastic material,.and has for its.object the provision of means and
nechanism whereby.after the application of one coating to the goods, their surfaces
may be ornamented or marked with a superposed, elevated ridge of the same, or other
semifluid material, the shape and configuration of the marking being controlled at
the pleasure of the operator of the machine.
To attain the desired end, my invention consists in certain novel and useful

page_text: combinations or arrangements of parts, and peculiarities of construction and operation,
all of which will be hereinafter first, fully described and then pointed out in the
claims.
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In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a machine embodying
my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, looking from the right of Fig. 1. Fig. 3
a like view, looking from the left. Fig. 4 is a plan view, below line a-a of Fig. 3.
Fig. 5 is a vertical, sectional view, at line -b of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is an enlarged,
vertical sectional view of one of the conducting tubes from the elevated coating
tanks.
Similar numerals of reference, wherever they occur, indicate corresponding parts in
all the figures.
1 is the main frame of the machine, provided with supporting legs, 2.
driving shaft, journaled in the frame 1, and carrying a driving pulley 8 from which
a belt 4 passes to the source of power. 5 is a clutch mounted upon the shaft 3, and
6 is the inanipulating handle of the clutch, 7 is a bolt, passing from the pulley 8 to
a pulley 9 upon a shaft 10, journaled in a frame 11, mounted upon the main frame 1.
12 is a band wheel, also upon the shaft 10, and where from passes a band 13 to a
wheel 14 upon a shaft 15, passing through the coating material tank, 16. The end
of the shaft 15 opposite to the wheel 14, bears a gear, 17, the teeth whereof mesh
with a gear 18 upon a shaft 19 passing through the tank 16. The shafts 15 and 19
bear stirring devices 20 for agitating the coating material.
21 is a band wheel upon shaft. 10, arranged to drive a fan for circulating air
through a cooling chamber as particularly shown and described in Letters Patent
No. 19652 of 1892. Upon the frame 11 is a shaft 22, carrying hammers 23 for
jarring or vibrating the dipping mechanism for removing the surplus coating material
from the goods after dipping, as set forth in said Letters Patent No. 19652 of 1892.
The shaft 22 bears an arm 24 arranged to come in contact with a ratchet 25 upon
the shaft 10. The arm 24 is normally held away from the ratchet 25 by an arm 26
upon the shaft 22, having a rod 27 pivoted thereto, and to a bar 28 bearing at its
lower extremity a wheel 29, arranged to press against cam 30 mounted upon a
shaft 34. The shaft 31 bears a gear 32 engaging with a gear 33 upon the shaft 34,
having a gear 35 engaging with a gear 36 upon the driving shaft 3. 37 is a cross-
head arranged to slide in ways 38 in the frame 11, said cross-head being actuated by
rods 39 connected to cranks 40 on the shaft 31. To this cross-head is connected the
dipping mechanism 41, constructed and arranged as set forth and described in Letters
Patent 19652 of 1892. 42 is the feeding mechanism, connected to a bar, 43, mounted
in slide ways, 44, and connected by rods 45 to rock arins, 46, mounted upon a shaft 47
which bears an arm 48 carrying a wheel, 49 arranged to bear upon a cam 50 upon
the shaft 34. 51 is the goods receiving paper, arranged to pass from a roll 52, around
a plate 53, and over a table 54, being carried by a belt 55. 56 is an elevated tank for
holding coating material, said tank having at the rear a hot water chamber, 57, which
extends downward nearly to the dipping mechanism, as at 58. 59 is a support for a
pipe 60 for a heating fluid or gas. 61 is a stirring roller, mounted within the tank 56
and driven by means of a wheel 62, a chain 63 passing therefrom to a wheel 64 upon
a shaft 65, which bears a gear 66, the teeth whereof mesh with a wheel 67 upon a
shaft 68. 69 is a sprocket wheel upon the shaft 68, driven by a chain 70, passing to
a sprocket 71 upon a shaft 72. 73 is a chain passing from a sprocket upon said
shaft 72 to a wheel 74 mounted upon the shaft 3.
75 are exit orifices for the bottom of the tank 56, said orifices being surrounded by
a ball, 76 to which is movably connected a tabe or conduit, 77, having at the bottom
a plug 78, perforated as at 79; 80 is a bulb fixed between the perforations 79. 81 is
an apron, suspended in front of the conduits, 77. Connected to the conduits 77 is
a bar, 82, which in turn is pivoted to arms 83, connected to rods 84, pivoted upon a
support 85 at 86; one of the arms 83 is connected by bars 87 pivoted at 88, and
connected to a bar 89, bearing a manipulating handle or button, 90, the base whereof
rests upon a table, 91.
92 is a pump, driven by means of a rod, 93, passing to an arm 94 actuated by a

page_text: pitman 95 connected to a crank 96, this pump leads from the lower tank 16, to the
elevated tank 56 and is designed to supply a continuous flow of the coating material
to the latter tank.
The operation of my machine is as follows: Coating material being supplied fo
the two tanks, the goods to he coated are fed to the dipping mechanism as fully
described in said Letters Patent No. 19652 of 1892. They are first immersed in the
lower tank; then raised by the action of the dipping mechanism, until brought to
the level of the delivery table. The continued movement of the catn 50 first pushes
the goods from beneath the holders, 97, beneath the conduits 77, when the feeding
mechanism recedes. When the goods are at this point, the operator, by means of
the hand piece 91 gives the conduit 77 any desired movement, either following a
pattern placed upon the table 91, or without a pattern, depositing a ridge of coating
material which flows from the conduits, over the bulbs, 80. As this material is quite
warm within the conduits, it flows out of the exits 79, over the bulb, rapidly cooling,
so it will not settle down when it reaches the drop, but will stand up prominently
from the surface thereof. By the time this ridge or niarking has beon applied, the
feeding mechanism again advances, delivering the completed goods upon the paper 51,
when the foregoing operation is repeated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. In a machine for ornamenting in plastic material, an elevated material holder
provided with exit orifices, conduits from said orifices; means for imparting horizontal
movements to said conduits, and a support beneath said conduits for the goods to be
ornamented; the whole combined and arranged to operate, substantially as shown and
described.
2. In a machine of the character herein specified, an elevated plastic material
holder provided with exit orifices, and conduits leading from said orifices, in
combination with a hot water chamber at the side of the material holder and exit
conduits, substantially as shown as described.
3. In a device of the character herein specified, an elevated plastic material holder
provided with exit orifices, from which lead movable conduits, in combination with a
plastic material holder below the elevated holder, a pump for supplying the elevated
holder from the lower holder, and an overflow leading from the upper to the lower
holder, substantially as shown and described.
4. In a device of the character herein specified, an elevated plastic material holder,
having exits therefrom in combination with conduits movably connected with said
exits, and means for automatically moving said conduits in predetermined horizontal
directions, variable at will, substantially as shown and described.
5. In a machine of the character herein specified, the combination with a plastic
material holder, of a conduit connected therewith by a ball-and-socket joint, and
means for imparting movement to said conduit, substantially as shown and
described.
6. In a machine of the character herein specified, a plastic material conduit.
provided at its lower extremity with a projecting bulb, and orifices from said conduit,
above said bulb, substantially as shown and described.
7. In a machine of the character herein specified, the combination with a plastic
material holder and a plurality of movable conduits therefrom, of a series of levers
connected to said conduits and to a pattern, the whole arranged to operate
substantially as shown and described.
8. In a machine of the character herein specified, the combination with a tank for
holding plastic coating material, of a device for supporting the goods; means for
moving the goods over said support; an elevated plastic material holder provided
with movable discharge conduits located above a dipping device, and means for
moving said conduits in a uniform manner, substantially as shown and described.
9. In a machine of the character herein specified, the combination with an elevated

page_text: plastic material holder provided witha plurality of discharge conduits; of.a projecting
apron at the front of said conduits, and a hot water chamber at the rear thereof,
substantially as shown and described.
10. In a machine of the character herein specified, a plastic material chamber
provided with movable discharge conduits, in combination with means for delivering
the plastic anaterial from said chamber and moving said conduits in predetermined
directions, substantially as shown.and described.
Dated this 1st day of Im 1007