IM- PROVEMENTS IN MOULDING OR SHAPING LOZENGE PASTE, OR OTHER PLASTIC MATERIALS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Schooling, of Nos. 5, 6, & 7, North Side,
Bethnal Green, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MOULDING OR SHAPING LOZENGE PASTE, OR OTHER PLASTIC
MATERIALS."
Sealed the 2nd November 1863, and dated the 8th May 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Schooling at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 8th
May 1863.
I, HENRY SCHOOLING, of Nos. 5, 6, & 7, North Side, Bethnal Green, in the
5 County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MOULDING OR SHAPING LOZENGE PASTE, OR OTHER PLASTIC
MATERIALS," to be as follows:-
The adaptation of various well-known machines now in use for other pur-
poses to cut, mould, or shape various. pastes or plastic materials, but more
particularly the article known to confectioners as lozenge paste, into a variety
of new forms, notably the adaptation of pill-making machines for making
lozenge pills, rolls, oblongs, sticks, pipes, and other shapes, and the adaptation
of machines for drawing lead or metal tubes to the drawing of lozenge tubes
or hollow pipes.
The means by which I obtain the desired result with the pill-making
machines are as follows, viz. :-
A roll of the paste of the requisite thickness being placed on the metal
bed, which is cut to the desired shape, a flat handle having a corresponding

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metal plate on the underneath side of it is pressed down upon the paste, and
by a movement backwards and forwards imparts the rounded or other form to
the pills, rolls, or other shapes.
The means by which I operate with the tube-drawing machine are as
follows, viz.
The machine consists of a metal cylinder or chamber (I prefer a long flat
chamber), at the bottom of which are a series of holes, into which holes man-
drils are placed, and held by pins or screws above, an orifice being left
between the outside of the hole and the mandril, through which orifice the
paste is forced by pressure obtained by a screw, or any other mechanical
power, and is delivered in the shape of a hollow pipe.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Schooling in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 7th November 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
SCHOOLING, of Nos. 5, 6, & 7, North Side, Bethnal Green, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Henry Schooling, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Schooling,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Henry Schooling, 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 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 "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MOULDING OR SHAPING LOZENGE PASTE, OR OTHER PLASTIC MATERIALS," upon
condition (amongst others) that J, the said Henry Schooling, 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.
the

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Schooling, 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:-
The adaptation of various well-known machines now in use for other pur-
poses to cut, mould, or shape various pastes or plastic materials, but more
particularly the article known to confectioners as lozenge paste, into a variety
of new forms, notably the adaptation of pill-making machines for making
lozenge pills, rolls, oblongs, sticks, pipes, and other shapes, and the adaptation
of machines for drawing lead and metal tubes to the drawing of lozenge
tubes or hollow pipes.
The means by which I obtain the desired result with the pill-making
machines are as follows, viz. :-
A roll of the paste of the requisite thickness being placed on the metal bed,
which is cut to the desired shape, a flat handle having a corresponding metal-
plate on the underneath side of it is pressed down upon the paste, and by a
movement backwards and forwards imparts the rounded or other form to the
pills, rolls, or other shapes.
The means by which I operate with the tube-drawing machine are as
follows, viz. :-
The machine consists of a metal cylinder or chamber (I prefer a long flat
chamber), at the bottom of which are a series of holes, into which holes
mandrils are placed and held by pins or screws above, an orifice being left
between the outside of the hole and the mandril, through which orifice the
paste is forced by pressure obtained by a screw, or any other mechanical power,
and is delivered in the shape of a hollow pipe.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be put in practice, what I claim
therein as new, and desire to have secured to me by the Letters Patent, is
the adaptation of machines to the making of lozenge paste, pills, rolls,
oblongs, sticks, pipes, and other shapes, and the adaptation of machines for
drawing lead or metal pipes to the drawing of lozenge tubes or hollow pipes,
whether those machines may be such as I have described or any others, as I
have only described those which I prefer to use.
HENRY SCHOOLING. (L.S.)