AN IMPROVEMENT IN SAUSAGE MEAT CHOPPING MACHINES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin Andrade, of West Smithfield, in the
City of London, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN SAUSAGE
MEAT CHOPPING MACHINES."
Sealed the 2nd April 1874, and dated the 4th February 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin Andrade at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th February 1874.
I, BENJAMIN ANDRADE, of West Smithfield, in the City of London,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN SAUSAGE MEAT CHOPPING MACHINES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to an improvement in machines for chopping
up or mincing sausage meat.
These machines as commonly constructed consist of a revolving
chopping block, upon which the meat is minced by the action of one or
more vertical chopping knives worked up and down in guides by suitable
mechanism. The chopping block is provided with raised edges to
prevent the meat falling off, and being made to revolve brings the meat

page_text: under the action of the knife. It is however necessary, in order that the
meat may be equally minced, that it should be continually turned over
and heaped up under the knives, which is now done by the hand of an
attendant at the risk of his being seriously maimed, many accidents
having occurred from this cause.
Now according to my Invention I dispose a blade or scraper near the
sides of the chopping block or receptacle, in which the meat is minced
in such a position that the meat near the sides will, as it is brought
round by the revolution of the block, be intercepted by the scraper, and
thereby turned over and directed toward the centre of the block so as to
be presented more fairly to the action of the knives. The blade or
scraper is attached to an arm or rod fixed to the framework of the
machine, which arm may be provided with suitable joints, so that it may
be moved out of the way.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Benjamin Andrade in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 4th August 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
ANDRADE, of West Smithfield, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Benjamin Andrade, Her
special licence that the said Benjamin Andrade, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Benjamin
Andrade, executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time.
agree with and no others, from time to time, and at all times there-
after 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
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN SAUSAGE MEAT CHOPPING MACHINES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Benjamin Andrade, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of

page_text: 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 Benjamin Andrade, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that
is to say) :-
This Invention relates to an improvement in machines for chopping
up or mincing sausage meat.
These machines as commonly constructed consist of a revolving
chopping block, upon which the meat is minced by the action of one or
more vertical chopping knives worked up and down in guides by suitable
mechanism. It is necessary, in order that the meat may be equally
minced, that it should be continually turned over, and fed under the
knives, which is now done by the hand of an attendant at the risk of
receiving injury, many accidents having occurred from this cause.
Now according to my Invention I dispose a blade or scraper on the
chopping block or receptacle, in which the meat is minced in such a
position that the meat on the block and near the sides will, as it is
brought round by the revolution of the block, be gathered by the scraper
and turned over and directed towards the centre, so as to be presented
more fairly to the action of the knives. The blade or scraper is attached
to an arm or rod fixed to the framework of the machine, which arm may
be provided with suitable joints, so that it may be folded back or moved
out of the way.

page_text: the reciprocating knives d, all as usual; e is the blade or scraper attached
to an arm ffixed adjustably on an extension 9 of the machine frame h.
The blade stands edgewise on the revolving block, as clearly shown in
Figure 2, it being slightly curved at its upper edge e¹ in order to turn
over the meat in a similar manner to the mould board of a plough. The
arm carrying the blade is doubly jointed at f¹, f, in order that it may
be readily lifted out of the receptacle c, and folded back out of the way
when not required for use, as shown in dotted lines in Figure 2.
Having described the nature of the Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I declare that what I claim as my Invention to be 1
protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the
combination with a sausage meat chopping or mincing machine of the
kind herein shown and described of a stationary scraper constructed and
applied substantially as and for the purpose specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Andrade, have hereunto 1
set my hand and seal, this Third day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
Witness,
W. G. E. SWINNOCK,
53, Chancery Lane.
BENJAMIN ANDRADE. (L.S.).