AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR CUTTING AND PRINTING LOZENGES AND CRACKERS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR CUTTING AND PRINTING LOZENGES AND
CRACKERS." -A communication from abroad by Ernest Greenfield
and Philipp Strauss, both of the City, County, and State of New
York, United States of America.
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Sealed the 4th April 1871, and dated the 7th November 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville
Clark at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 7th November 1870.
I, ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR CUTTING AND PRINTING
LOZENGES AND CRACKERS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of a machine containing a combination of
dovices, by means of which lozenge dough or paste is printed upon

page_text: and carried forward without stoppage on an endless apron (passing
over rollers) beneath perforated cutter, which stamps the lozenges
from the dough or paste. The printed lozenges rising through the
perforations in the cutter, fall over an inclined plane or trough into a
vessel prepared for their reception, while the wastage from the cutter
continues its transit with the endless apron until it falls into a reservoir,
whence it is taken to be re-kneaded with the rest of the paste or dough.
The following is the action of the machine:-The prepared paste or
dough is placed upon the apron at its highest end, which carries it
forward beneath a printing cylinder; this revolving its types in contact
with ink or colour rollers imprints upon the sheet of dough whatever
lettering, border, or design the manufactured lozenges are designed to
bear. The printed sheet of paste continues its passage with the endless
apron between a cutter bar and cutters, which stamp it into the proper
size and shape. The cut lozenges are pushed up by their successors
from beneath through openings, and pass down an inclined plane to
their proper receptacle, while the wastage continues its journey with
the endless apron and falls into a reservoir to be incorporated with the
mass of uncut paste.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 5th May 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancory Lanc, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-fourth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Alexander Melville Clark, Her special licence
that I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the

page_text: 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 IMPROVED
MACHINE FOR CUTTING AND PRINTING LOZENGES AND CRACKERS," a communi-
3 cation to me from abroad by Ernest Greenfield and Philipp Strauss, both
of the City, County, and State of New York, United States of America,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alexander Melville
Clark, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of 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 Alexander Melville Clark, do hereby
declare the nature of the 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 Sheet of Drawings
hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is
to say) :-
This Invention consists of a machine containing a combination of
devices, by means of which lozenge dough or paste is printed upon
and carried forward without stoppage on an endless apron (passing over
rollers) beneath a perforated cutter which stamps the lozenges from the
dough or paste. The printed lozenges rising through the perforations
in the cutter fall over an inclined plane or trough into a vessel prepared
for their reception, while the wastage from the cutter continues its
transit with the endless apron until it falls into a reservoir, whence
it is taken to be re-kneaded with the rest of the paste or dough.
To enable others skilled in the art to understand and use the Invention
I will now proceed to describe the manner in which the same is or may
be carried into effect.
Figure 1 of the Drawings is a section; Figure 2 is a front view, and
Figure 3 is a top or bird's-eye view of the machine. Similar letters of
reference indicate corresponding parts.
By reference to the accompanying Drawing it will be seen that R. is
a framework holding the machinery in situ. a is a pulley to which
the power is applied; 6 is a fly wheel; c is a cam for working the cutter

page_text: bar h; d is the main shaft; 1, 1, are rollers holding the endless apron q,
which conveys the paste; m is a pitman which operates the arm n and
paulo, taking the ratchet p to feed forward the paste or dough on the
apron under the cutter bar h and cutters i, i; k is a cleaning bar or
plate made of sheet'metal, with holes to clean the cutters; fis the yoke
of the cutter bar; u is a spring to support the weight of the roller above
it; & is a revolving printing cylinder set with type for the purpose of
imprinting upon the sheet of dough as it passes beneath it whatever
design or letters it is designed to represent upon the lozenges; t, t, are
coloring rollers, so arranged that the types upon the printing cylinder
may receive from them the colors necessary to be imprinted on the
lozenges. Passing under the printing cylinder the sheet of dough
moves on, and the lozenges being cut come out at the tops of the cutters
and slide down upon the inclined plate or trough x to a board or apron
provided for their reception, while the waste or remnants of paste fall
down to y, and are carried back to be incorporated with the mass of
uncut paste.
Having thus described the various parts of this machine I will now
explain its operation.
The prepared paste or dough is placed upon the apron q at its highest
end, which carries it forward beneath the printing cylinder 8; this,
revolving its types in contact with the ink or color rollers t, t, imprints
upon the sheet of dough whatever lettering, border, or design the
manufactured lozenges are designed to bear. The printed sheet of
paste continues its passage with the endless apron between the cutter
bar and cutters i, i, which stamp it into the proper size and shape.
The cut lozenges are pushed up by their successors from beneath
through the openings at i, i, and pass down the inclined plane x to
their proper receptacle, while the wastage continues its journey with
the endless apron to y, where it falls into a reservoir.
Having described the nature of the Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to
be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,―
1st. In a machine for cutting lozenges and crackers the combination
of a printing cylinder and inking rollers, for the purpose of printing the
design upon the sheet or paste before passing it to the cutters.

page_text: 2ndly. The inclined plane or trough in combination with the cutter
bar or cutters, as and for the purpose described.
3rdly. The combination of the printing cylinder with the inclined
trough and cutters, so arranged and geared as to have consecutive and
reciprocating motion, as and for the purpose set forth.
4thly. The arrangement of the belt and inclined trough, whereby the
separation of the lozenge and waste is effected.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of May in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
Witness,
JAS. O. DEWEY,
53, Chancery Lane.
A. M. CLARK. (L.S.)