Soap Cooling Frames.
Year: 1893

page_text: Cate of Application, 9th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left. 9th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 13th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL
SPECIFICATION.
Soap Cooling Frames.
I, HENRY DAWSON MORGAN, of Kitchen Street, Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has reference to apparatus, called "frames," used in the manu-
facture of soap, into which the hot soap is poured and wherein it is cooled prior
to being formed or pressed into the shapes required.
The type of frame to which this invention relates is that wherein the sides,
ends, and bottom constitute separate parts, so formed and provided with parts
that they can be readily put together and fastened up, and taken down; and
the main object of my invention is to provide frames of a light yet strong
construction and the parts of which can be readily put together and taken to
pieces.
The side and end parts of a frame according to my invention are constructed
of thin wrought metal (preferably steel) plates; whilst the bottom is also of iron
or steel (or cast iron or steel) or other suitable material, and is provided with
grooves or recesses into which the lower edges of the sides and ends fit, or
equivalently formed to receive or be connected to them. The sides at each edge
are turned inwards, and at these bends are provided or formed with a flute or
equivalent formation to provide extra or special strength to resist bending and
becoming deformed when the frame is being taken down or put up (or at other
times), or through falling, or other action upon them.
On the outside of the plates I attach by rivetting, or otherwise, channel pieces,
-say of semicircular form-running longitudinally (or longitudinally and
vertically or diagonally), by which they are rendered stiff and capable of
resisting the stresses to which they are subjected.
The end plates and side plates are fastened together by hinged or movable
dogs, cleats, hooks, bolts, or the like, mounted on or secured to the end plates (or
side plates) and capable of being readily turned or moved to catch or hold the
adjacent edges or ends of the side plates (or end plates, as the case may be), and
be removed therefrom, in fastening up and unfastening.
The plates are so constructed or formed, and combined, that when connected, an
even surface is presented to the soap and leakage and waste is prevented and the
flutes or equivalent formations above referred to, if or when they are or become
filled with soap, constitute a packing at the joints.
The invention is not confined strictly to the exact formations or constructions of
the parts above specified, since these may be modified, or equivalents used, or the
converse arrangement thereof adopted, without departing from its essential
characteristics.
Dated this 8th day of March 1893

page_text: Soap Cooling Frames.
I, HENRY DAWSON MORGAN, of Kitchen Street, Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Engineer, 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 :-
This invention has reference to apparatus, called "frames," used in the manu-
facture of soap, into which the hot soap is poured and wherein it is cooled prior to
being formed or pressed into the shapes required.
The type of frame to which this invention relates is that wherein the sides, ends,
and bottom constitute separate parts, so formed and provided with parts that they
can be readily put together and fastened up, and taken down; and the main object
of my invention is to provide frames of a light yet strong construction and the
parts of which can be readily put together and taken to pieces.
The side and end parts of a frame according to my invention are constructed of
thin wrought metal (preferably steel) plates; whilst the bottom may also be of iron
or steel or other suitable material-say wood, and is provided with grooves or
recesses into which the lower edges of the sides and ends fit, or equivalently formed
to receive or be connected to them. The sides at each edge are turned inwards,
and at these bends are provided or formed with a flute or equivalent formation to
provide extra or special strength to resist bending and becoming deformed when
the frame is being taken down or put up (or at other times), or through falling, or
other action upon them.
On the outside of the plates I attach by rivetting, or otherwise, channel pieces,—
say of semi-circular form-running longitudinally (or longitudinally and vertically;
or diagonally), by which they are rendered stiff and capable of resisting the stresses
to which they are subjected.
The end plates and side plates are fastened together by hinged or movable dogs,
cleats, hooks, bolts, or the like, mounted on or secured to the end plates (or side
plates) and capable of being readily turned or moved to catch or hold the adjacent
edges, or ends of the side plates (or end plates, as the case may be), and be removed
therefrom, in fastening up and unfastening.
The plates are so constructed or formed, and combined, that when connected, an
even surface is presented to the soap and leakage and waste is prevented and the
flutes or equivalent formations above referred to, if or when they are or become
filled with soap, constitute a packing at the joints.
The drawings illustrating this invention consist of a side elevation in Figure 1,
an end view in Figure 2, and a sectional plan of one end of a frame in Figure 3.
Referring now to these figures, a are the side plates of the frame, and 6 are the
end plates, the end plates & being held by the side plates by the ends a' thereof
which are turned round at right angles and provided with flutes or corrugations a²,
the plates fitting on the inside of these inturned edges. By this construction the
parts which hold the end plates b in position are rendered strong and capable of
withstanding the pressure of the plates 6 outwards, due to the weight of soap
thereon. Also the spaces within the flutes a² become filled with soap when used
and this soap constitutes a packing and prevents the leakage of soap from the frame
when freshly filled.
As regards the other parts of the frame, the side plates a are provided with
strengthening parts c, which are rivetted to the plates a horizontally. In the
example shewn these strengthening parts consist of channel or semi-cylindrical
bars, as shewn, rivetted to a: but of course other suitable forms of strengthening
bars or means may be provided.
The plates a and b fit at their lower edges in suitable channels or recesses in the
bottom of the frame, which is mounted on wheels in the usual way.

page_text: The end plates b and the side plates d are held in position by the hinged cleats e,
mounted in supports f fixed on the plates b.
As regards the strength or weight of metal used, the side plates a may be of
about one eighth of an inch thick or about 10 Birmingham wire gauge, in a frame
of, say, six feet deep. The end plates b may be of slightly greater thickness if
desired, say or inch. However, the invention is not restricted to these sizes or
strengths, those given being merely suitable sizes and strengths for the article.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A soap cooling frame, constructed with or of wrought metal plates (iron or steel)
provided with special formations for giving same special strength at certain parts
thereof, and other purposes; substantially as herein set forth and as shewn in the
drawings hereto annexed.
Dated thin 7th das of December 1892
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON, Fels. Chart. Inst. P.A.,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents.