Improvements in Machines for Cutting or Shaping Confectionery.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 29th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 6th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Cutting or Shaping Confectionery.
WALTER HART 52 King Street Ramsgate Kent Model Maker and WILLIAM
CHARLES CHILD 64 King Street Ramsgate Kent Confectioner do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:
A machine of convenient size made in iron brass or other metal, clamped down
to the bench and provided with an handle for rotating the shaping wheels or drums
hereafter described.
The purpose of which is the manufacture of a class of boiled confectionery goods
known as cushions or bulls-eyes without the need of scissors or shears or a skilled
cutter.
A cushion or bullseye is a peice of boiled sugar at one side horizontally and the
other side cut verdicaly they being cut in various sizes it being usual to make the
same by cutting off a peice of the batch of sugar and then turning round the peice
and cut off a cushion turn round again and cut off another cushion and so untill the
required number are made.
Whereas with the machine hereafter described a peice of the batch of sugar is
pulled out the required thickness and the end enserted between the two shaping
drums or wheels Fig. A the said wheels are then turned and the peice of sugar
squezzed through and out of the other side of the of the machine shape, size, and weight,
uniformn one with the other. The said machine consisting of two or more upright
standards Fig. B which form the bearings of the axles of the shaping wheels Fig. A
and spur pinions Fig. C the said standards being fixed or fitted to a convenient
base. To each axle is fixed one spur pinion Fig. C and one spiked wheel or
drum Fig. A hereafter refered to as the shaping wheel the spur pinion being
outside of the standards and the shaping wheel in between the standards, the said
axles being placed one above the other in order thai the spur pionion of axle,
No. 1, may gear into spur pinion of axle No. 2 the said pinions both being of the
same size as are also the shaping wheels which do not gear into each other but the
peice of each spike comes true with and upon the face of the other spike.
The shaping wheel being made and arranged in the following manner.
A drum is turned true upon an axle and upon it are fixed or cast a number of
spikes which are at an angle of 45 degrees to the side of the drum each other
spike being fitted at a contrary or opposite angle. With a drum of 6 spikes or
points 3 of the spikes are angled to the left side of the drum and 3 are angled to
the right side of the drum, and when they are fitted into the bearings shaping
wheel No. 1. is placed with the left angle upwards and the shaping drum No. 2. is
placed with the right angle in the left angle of No. 1. drum. The spur pinions are
then fitted into each other and an handle Fig. D fixed upon one of the axles when
upon rotating the axle No. 1 the spur pinions thereof gear into the pinion of
axle No. 2 and both axles and the shaping wheels thereupon are rotated equally
one with the other every time the spikes of the shaping wheels meet in the machine
they are first angled right and then they are rotated to the next pair of spikes
which are angled to the opposite side so as the sugar passes through the shaping
wheels it is squezzed in one side and then at the next spikes it is squezzed in the
opposite side thereby forming the cushion or bullseye as above described.

page_text: The special features of novelity being the shaping wheels has described and also
the advantage of simplicity cheapness and non-liability to get out of order.
Dated this 5th day of November 1894.
Improvements in Machines for Cutting or Shaping Confectionery.
WALTER HART 52 King Street Ramsgate Kent Model Maker and WILLIAM
CHARLES CHILD 6 King Street Ramsgate Kent Confectioner do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
That the whole of this invention consists of and is a machine of any convient
size in iron, brass or aluminium or any other convient metal or combination of metals,
which does by pressure shape a length of boiled sugar into a number of shapes
called cushions or bulls-eyes. The system at present in use being to cut each one
of the cushions seperate with a pair of shears but with the machine hereafter
described a length of confectionery is feed into one side of the machine and the
handle of the machine rotated whereupon the confectionery is pulled and squezzed
into the desired shape and delivered out of the other side of the machine a length
of cushions all fastened together which are after seperated by being droped upon
the bench the jar causing the whole of the cushions to part one from the other they
being then ready for sale or use.
The construction of the machine being after the following manner.
Each machine consists of 2 spiked wheels or drums hereafter refered to as the
shaping drum's Fig. A also 2 spur pinions Fig. C of equal pitch and size attached.
to 2 axles which are supported upon and between 2 upright standards Fig. B the
said standards being fastened to a suitable base. Each shaping. drum is made in
the following shape, consists of and is; upon a drum or round wheel is cast forged
or otherwise fastened a number of spiked teeth they being angled at an angle of
45 degrees one spike being angled to left and the next one to the right round the
drum which will have say 12 spikes upon it 6 of which will be angled left and 6
angied right of the drum the said shaping drum being then complete is fitted upon
an axle and also a spur pinion the spur pinion being outside the standard and the
shaping drums in between the standards the said standards forming a guide to keep
the confectionery in its place as it passes through the shaping drums upon one, of
the above refered to axles an baudle Fig. D is fixed to rotate the pair of spur
pinions and the pair of shaping druins.
Each of the shaping drums being put so, that the angles are first right then left
the angles working upon the face or edge of each and not geared into each other as
the spur pinions are fitted.
The manner of using the machine being that a peice of confectionery is feed into
one side and the handle, Fig. D, rotated which moves, all the shaping drums which,
as they draw the peice of confectionery in squezze it first, right side and then left.
aide delivering it out of the other side of the machine ready, shaped, to cool and
Beperate for use or sale
It is also desireable to be, able to make more than one string, of confectionery into.
cushions or bullseyes at one, and the same time, and the same is accomplished by
converting the whole. of the machine. herein described into. a, compound machine
by adding extra pairs. of shaping, wheels and as many extra, standards. as are
required to support the said shaping wheels and. form, particions to keep, the stringe
of confectionery (either in its shaped, or, unshaped state) from sticking, and. runing,

page_text: together. The person using the compound machine being required to supply each
pair of shaping wheels Fig. A with a peice of confectionery whereupon the handle
of the machine Fig. D being rotated the whole of the shaping wheels are caused to
revolve also the pair of spur pinions Fig. C the confectionery passing in between
the pairs of shaping wheels as the same is squezzed into shape. And in rotating
the machine by power such as that supplied by steam oil or gas engine or electric
motor it requires to be driven by a band passing over a pulley placed upon the axle
wherefrom the handle Fig. D has been removed the shaping wheels requireing to be
feed by hand in the same manner as when the machine is rotated by the handle
Fig. D.
A compound machine consisting of the following, for a double shaping machine
to make 2 strings of confectionery into shaped cushions or bullseyes. The axles
are double the length of those with one pair of shaping wheels and require 3
instead of 2 standards and 2 sets of shaping wheels Fig. A which are fastened in
the same manner as before described one pair of shaping wheels being each side of
the centre particion and one standard upon each side of the shaping wheels one pair
of spur pinions being enough to rotate both pair of wheels and the spur pinions as
before described.
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 whole of the machines herein described.
2. The machine substantially as set forth herein.
3. The spiked and angled wheel or drum and the manner in which the same is
used.
4. The addition of any number of shaping wheels or drums to each machine or
machines as described.
5. Also the addition of any number of partitions or standards.
6. The right to the machine being rotated by any power such as steam, gas, oil,
and the like.
Dated this 28th day of March 1895.
WALTER HART.
WILLIAM CHARLES CHILD.