Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Manufacturing Confectionery.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 10th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 7th Jan., 1896-Accepted, 8th Feb., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Manufacturing
Confectionery.
Wo JoHN THORLEY DUTTON and THOMAS DUTTON trading as Dutton
Brothers of The Bunyan Steam Confectionery Works, Elynes Street. Rochdale,
in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturing Confectioners, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our said invention relates to certain improvements in the process or method of
manufacturing confectionery, and in the means or apparatus usel to carry out or
expedite such improved method. For example in steam boiling plants at present
in use, considerable waste of time, labour and material occur in transferring the
boiled sugar from the pan to the cooler and from the cooler to the slab or bench
for working up the boiled sugar. Thus a separate vessel is used, into which the
boiled sugar is poured from the steam pan and this vessel is in its turn emptied
upon the cooling plate, the sugar being then removed from the cooling plate to
the lab on bench where it is worked up. Waste of material ocems in the tians-
fening vessel which carries the sugat from the steam pan to the cooler, an the
proportion of waste 18 also muensed by the necessity of lifting the sugar from the
cooling plate to the slab.
According to our improved mode we make the said operations continuous instead
of interrupted and transfer the sugar direct from the steam pan to the cooling
We mount the
plate the cooling plate being made movable for that purpose.
steam pan at a greater altitude than usual and so that it can be tipped forward.
We also arrange for the cooling plate to be movable towards and from the steam
pan. For example the cooling plate might run on wheels or on rails or in grooved
ways or in any other manner whereby it can be moved towards and away from the
steam pan
To provule for the continuous cuculation of cold water beneath or
through the cooling plate as usual, the water is conducted to and from the cooler
by means of flexible tubes which permit of the movements of the cooling plate.
The working up slab o bench is arranged in juxta-position to the removable
cooling plate and we pivot the cooling plate upon its carriage or support so that it
can be turned round in line with the working up slab or bench so that the boiled
sugar can be moved at once from the cooling plate upon the working up slab or
bench In using our improved method and apparatus a steam pan of large
capacity than usual can be employed, as the weight does not require under our
invention, to be manually lifted from the pan to the cooler and the whole of the
contents of the pan can be poured at once so that the boiling is all of one colour
and degree. When the sugar has been sufficiently boiled in the pan, we move the
cooler plate forward and close to the pau We then tip the pan and pour the
contents duectly upon the cooler plate thus dispensing with the usual vessel for
transferring the sugar from the pan to the cooler.
We then move the cooler plato ba k and when in the proper position turn it
round until it lies in line with the working up slab or bench, so that the operator
has the boiled sugar brought immediately under his hand and can transfer it at
once to the slab. The sugar having thus less time and opportunity to grow too
cold for working up, no scrap is formed under our process and the waste incidental
to the use of transferring vessels is saved, as well as the labour and heat necessary
to melt the waste from the vessels.

page_text: Altogether an important saving of time, labour and material is effected nuder
our invention and the production of confectionery goods is largely cheapened and
improved.
Dated thin oth d
2008
For the Applicants,
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
John Dalton Street, Manchester, Chartered Patent Agents.
Improvements in the Method of and Apparatus for Manufacturing
Confectionery.
We JOHN THORLEY DUTTON and THOMAS DUTTON trading as Dutton
Brothers of The Bunyan Steam Confectionery Worke, Haynes Street, Rochdale,
in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturing Confectioners, do hereby declaro the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to he
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement and
accompanying drawings :—
Our said invention relates to certain improvements in the process or method of
manufacturing confectionery, and in the means or apparatus used to carry out or
expedite such improved method. For example in steam boiling plants at present
in use, considerable waste of time, labour and material occurs in transferring the
boiled sugar from the pan to the cooler and from the cooler to the slab oi bench
for working up the boiled sugar. Thus, a separate vessel is used, into which the
boiled sugar is poured from the steam pan, and this vessel is in its turn emptied
upon the cooling plate, the sugar being then removed from the cooling plate to
the slab or bench where it is worked up. Waste of material occurs in the tiaus-
ferring vessel which carries the augar from the steam pan to the cooler, and the
proportion of waste is also increased by the necessity of lifting the sugat from the
cooling plate to the slab.
According to our improved mode we make the said operations continuous instead
of interrupted and transfer the sugar duect from the steam pan to the cooling
plate the cooling plate being proforably made movable for that purpose. We
mount the steam pan at a greater altitude than usual and so that it can be tipped
forward. We also arrange for the cooling plate to be movable towards and from
the steam pan.
For example the cooling plate might uu on wheels or on tails 01
in grooved ways or in any other manner whereby it can he moved towards and away
from the steam pan. To provide for the continuous cuculation of cold wate
beneath or through the cooling plate as usual, the water is conducted to and from
the cooler by means of flexible tubes which permit of the movements of the cooling
plate. The working up slab or bench is arranged in juxta-position to the movable
cooling plate and we pivot the cooling plate upon its carriage or support so that it
can be turned round in line with the working up slab oi bench so that the boiled
sugar can be moved at ouce from the cooling plate to the working up slab or bench.
In using our improved method and apparatus a steam pan of larger capacity than
usual can be employed as the weight does not require under our invention to be
Inanually lifted from the pan to the cooler and the whole of the contents of the
pan can be poured at once so that the boiling 18 all of one colom and degree.
When the sugar has been sufficiently boiled in the pan, we move the cooling plate
forward aud close to the pan. We then tip the pan and pour the contents duectly
upon the cooling plate thus dispensing with the usual vessel for transfering the
sugar from the pan to the cooler.
We then move the cooling plate back and when in the proper position turn it

page_text: round until it lies in line with the working up slab or bench, so that the operator
has the boiled sugar brought immediately under his hand and can transfer it at
once to the slab. The sugar having thus less time and opportunity to grow too
cold for working up, no scrap is formed under our process and the waste incidental
to the use of transferring vessels is saved, as well as the libui an heat necessaly
to melt the waste from the vessels
Altogether an important saving of time, labour and material is effected urlei
out invention and the production of confectionery goods is largely cheapened and
improved.
To render our invention more fully understood we have attached hereunto a
sheet of illustrative drawings to which we will now refer.
Fig. 115 a side olevation of our improved arrangement showing the steam
boiling pan A raised to a height suitable for carrying out our invention to the
best advantage and used in combination with on improved shiftable cooling
plate B.
Fig 2 is a plan of Fig. 1.
Fig 3 is a diagrammatic plan view helping to show more fully the utility and
labou saving nature of our invention.
In carrying out our invention so as to secure the full advantages we 11ise the
steam boiling pan A to such a height that when tipped sound into the pouring
position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, the contents are poured directly upon
the top of the cooling table B The cooling table is preferably made of a height
equal to that of the working up slabs or benchies, so that when the table is moved
opposite to or in line with these working up slabs, no lifting of the material is
involved The steam pan A is supported in packed trunnions a upon two side
frames connected together by a suitable stay or stays The pipe e is for
supplying steam to the cavity of the pan A and to the steam coil generally placed
thei ein The pan A is furnished with a handle A' for tilting and pouring the pan.
The cooling table B is made in the ordinary manner with a hollow space or spaces
to admit of the circulation of water which is supplied and returned through the
central coupling d to the flexible tubing e e' one of the said tubes supplying the
water and the other permitting its return. The hollow spaces in the cooling table
ate connected to the tube which is coupled to the flexible tubes e el Except in
50 far as the use of the flexible tubing e el 18 concerned the water circulating
auangements of the cooling table form no part of our present invention. The
Bexible tubing e e' is preferably male with a coiled we lining so as to prevent
the tubes from buckling and closing. The cooling table B is carried by a central
pivot on a cential bearer g' which is upheld by angular supports which sit
upon two side frames the said side frames being furnished with flanged wheels 1¹
which run on tails 7. The two side frames and the supports thus form a
catinge upon which the cooling table B is pivotally mounted so as to be capable
of being turned on its pivot g, for example into the position indicated in dotted
lines in Fig. 2
To make provision for running the carriago and cooling table in any required
direction from the steam pau A, we provide a turn table Just in front of the
steain pan. This turn table cairies rails j supporting the carriage, and by tuiming
the tuin table & the rails can be brought in line with the rails or as desued,
01 with tails laid at other radial angles The flexible tubes e e' are made with
sufficient slack to permit of a reasonable amount of traverse of the caninge aud
cooling table For example referring to the reduced plan shown at Fig. 3 after
pouring the contents of the pan A upon the cooling table we might run the table
up to the working up bench 1 or to the stamping machine indicated by m on the
table ; or we might in the table to the working up bench o. As already said
we might also provide other sets of rails uuning in other radial directions as
indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 3. As a complete apparatus and for deriving
the full advantages from our invention we prefer the arrangement or substantially
the arrangement set forth in our description and drawings but it will be evident

page_text: that some of these advantages might be obtamed without employing the full
equipment which we have indicated For example in small establishments or
where the working up bench is adjacent to the cooling table we might have the
cooling table fixture or practically a fixture, that is, only to be moved at rare
intervals With such an arrangement one of the chief advantages of our invention
namely the direct pouring of the contents of the steam of boiling pan upon the
cooling table, would be obtained. It will also be evident that in conjunction with
a fixed or piactically fixed cooling table to receive the contents of the pan by
direct pouring, we might arrange the working up benches to be movable by
running on tails or otherwise up to and away hom the cooling table Under tho
latter arrangement any selected bench could be run up to the cooling table and the
directly poured material worked off upon the bench. The elevation of the ste un
or boiling pan to the height at which direct pouring becomes available, saves the
labour of lifting the poured contents of the pan to the level of the cooling table,
and also enables us to save the waste and sciap involved by the use of an inter-
mediate vessel.
The disadvantages of the old method as compared with the advantages derived
under om invention may here be stated succinctly.
By the old method a portion of the contents of the steam or boiling pan was
poured into a smaller vessel, and this vessel was then carried to and poured upon
the cooling table The disadvantages of this were manifold. In the first place
considerable manual labour was involved and in the deuble pouring and transport,
accidents were not uncommon, In the second place owing to the weight the whole
contents of the pan could not be poured and transported to the cooling table at one
operation, consequently there were differences of colour and degree in the same
boiling. In the thud place by the use of a separate transferung vessel to cany
the stuff from the boiling pan to the cooling table, a considerable waste took place
since a laige proportion of the material adhered to the interior of the vessel and
had to he afterwards melted off and the vessel cleaned This itself involved
considerable labour and waste, while the vessels bad to be provided and rene ved.
Under our invention the whole of these disadvantages are done away with, and
by placing the cooling table i juxta-position to the steam of boiling pan, whether
such cooling table be fixed or movable, we are enabled to pou diectly upon the
cooling table and to empty the pan at one turn instead of by instalments as
heretofore, at the same time dispensing with the aforesaid intermediate trans-
ferring vessels, and so saving the labour and waste consequent upon then use.
By ou additional improvements of making the cooling table movable when desired
relatively to the working up benches or of making the working up benches movable
relatively to the cooling table if preferred, we obtain further advantages all
tending to the diminution of labour, to facility of handling, and to economy in
timo material and labour
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is,
1 The improved method of and apparatus for manufacturing confectionery
substantially as herembefore described and shown.
2. In appaintus of the indicated nature for the manufacture of confectionery,
elevating or otherwise mounting the steam or other boiling pau so that the contents
of the pan can be poured directly upon the cooling table or slab and so as to
dispense with separate intermediate transferung vessels, substantially as herein-
before described.
3. In apparatus of the indicated nature, arranging the steam or other boiling pan
and the cooling table or alab relatively to each other in such a manner that the
contents of the pan can be poured directly upon the cooling table or slab,
substantially as heretubefore described.
4. In apparatus of the indicated nature, situating the cooling table or slab

page_text: whether fixed or movable, immediately beneath the steam or other boiling pan so
as to allow of the contents of the pan being poured duectly thereon, substantially
as described and shown.
5. In apparatus of the indicated nature, the combination of the elevated steam
or other boiling pan with a movable cooling table or slab mounted on a caruiage on
rails and supplied with water or other cooling fluid through flexible tubing which
permits of the movements of the carnage and table, the said carriage and table
being capable of being un from the pau to one or more working up benches of
confectionery making apparatuses, whereby we obtain duect pouring of the stuff
upon the cooling table combined with facility of transport and reduction of handling,
substantially as heroinbefore described and shown.
6. In apparatus of the indicated unture nud in combination with the duect
pouring boiling pan, the cooling table or slab B mounted pivotally upon a carriage
unning ou rails or their equivalent, the ails or equivalents minediately in front
of the boiling pan being carried on a turutable so as to provide facilities for
shunting the carriage and table upon different lines leading to different working-
up benches or apparatuses, substantially as herein before descubed and as
illustrated.
7. In apparatus of the indicated nature the combination of a direct pouting
boiling pan, a fixed cooling table or slab to receive the contents of the pan
directly, and a movable working up hench or benches capable of being moved up
to and away from the fixed cooling table oi slab, substantially as hereinbefore
described.
Dated the 6th day of January 1896.
For the Applicants,
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5 John Dalton Street, Manchester, Chattered Patent Agents.