AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF SWEETMEATS OF VARIOUS FORMS
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Pearce Wilding, of the Firm of Fell and Wilding,
of the City Patent Office, 23, Rood Lane, Fenchurch Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agents, for an Invention of " AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR
THE MANUFACTURE OF SWEETMEATS OF VARIOUS FORMS." A communication
from abroad by Thiele and Holzhause, of Magdeburg, in the Empire of
Germany.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left. by the said Samuel Pearce Wilding at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st May 1881.
SAMUEL PEARCE WILDING, of the Firm of Fell and Wilding, of the City Patent
Office, 23, Rood Lane, Fenchurch Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents.
"AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF SWEETMEATS OF VARIOUS
FORMS." A communication from abroad by Thiele and Holzhause, of Magdeburg,
in the Empire of Germany.
The said Invention relates to the production of sweetmeats of truly spherical or
other various forms, which have at least one circular section, from prepared sticks
of sugar or other suitable material.
The improved machine consists essentiaily of a roller of any suitable material, of
which the outside surface is grooved circumferentially with channels of a semi-
circular shape for the production of spheres, or of any convenient form to suit
the desired shape of sweetmeat, the ridges between the grooves being brought
to a knife edge.
In conjunction with this roller is used a semicircular segment of any suitable
inaterial of larger inside radius than that of the outside of the roller. It is also
channelled circumferentially on the inside with grooves and intermediate knife
edges corresponding to those on the roller.
The roller may be supported by a central axis on suitable bearings in brackets
forming part of a suitable bedplate, and to the axis may be fitted a hand crank or
wheel for producing conveniently the necessary rotation of the roller.
The before described segment rests at its lower end on a bar or suitable support
on the casting, and is held in an eccentric position to the roller by suitable springs

page_text: affixed to the bedplate and to the back of the segment. The knife edges of the
roller and segment are thus touching at the lowest point underneath the roller,
whilst they are some distanco apart on the upper face of the roller.
Two tables
are used in conjunction with this roller and segment, one at the top of the roller on
which to lay the prepared sugar sticks so as to feed them conveniently between
the segment and the roller, and the other at the under face of the roller to receive
the sweetmeats as they are cut from the stick. As the sticks are fed in the jaws
of the segment, and the roller is revolved, the knife edges gradually approach close
together as the stick is carried down between the roller and the segment, and at
last entirely separate the sweets from one another, where they are delivered from
the lowest face in the shape of the grooves.
As many different rollers and segments are required as shapes to be produced.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Samuel Pearce Wilding in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st November 1881.
SAMUEL PEARCE WILDING, of the Firm of Fell and Wilding, of the City Patent
Office, 23, Rood Lane, Fenchurch Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents.
"AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF SWEETMEATS OF VARIOUS
FORMS." A communication from abroad by Thiele and Holzhause, of Magdeburg,
in the Empire of Germany.
The said Invention relates to the production of sweetmeats of truly spherical or
other various forms, which have at least one circular section, from prepared sticks
of sugar or other suitable material.
The improved machine consists essentially of a roller of any suitable material,
of which the outside surface is grooved circumferentially with channels of a semi-
circular shape for the production of spheres, or of any convenient form to suit the
desired shape of sweetmeat, the ridges between the grooves being brought to a
knife edge.
In conjunction with this roller is used a semi circular segment of any suitable
material, of larger inside radius than that of the outside of the roller. It is also
channelled circumferentially on the inside with grooves and intermediate kuife
edges corresponding to those on the roller.
The roller may be supported by a central axis on suitable bearings in brackets
forming part of a suitable bed plate, and to the axis may be fitted a hand crank or
wheel for producing conveniently the necessary rotation of the roller.
The before described segment rests at its lower end on a bar or suitable support
on the casting, and is held in an eccentric position to the roller by suitable springs
affixed to the bed plate and to the back of the segment. The knife edges of the
roller and segment are thus touching at the lowest point underneath the roller,
whilst they are some distance apart on the upper face of the roller. Two tables
are used in conjunction with this roller and segment, one at the top of the roller
on which to lay the prepared sugar sticks, so as to feed them conveniently between
the segment and the roller, and the other at the under face of the roller to receive
the sweetmeats as they are cut from the stick. As the sticks are fed in the jaws
of the segment and the roller is revolved the knife edges gradually approach close
together as the stick is carried down between the roller and the segment, and at
last entirely separates the sweets from one another, when they are delivered from
the lowest face in the shape of the grooves. As many different rollers and segments
are required as shapes to be produced.
And in order that the said Invention may be the better understood, I now
proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed, reference being had to the
letters and figures marked thereon.
Figure 2 is a balf sectional and half outside plan, and Figure 1 a transverse
section of the machine.
a is the principal roller, grooved on its face, with the channels or profile to
suit the shape of the required sweet meat. This roller is keyed to the axis or
shaft C, and therefore revolves with it, the shaft being carried in bearings d.
The segment b is semicircular, but of a larger radius than the roller a, and its
interior face is grooved with channels or profiles similar to those of the roller a.
The knife edges on the roller and segment, which occur between each channel
or groove, are placed opposite to one another, and the segment b is supported on
the two pivots e, e, which are screwed into the framing d. The segment is
supported in its position of pressing upon the roller a by the springs f, f.

page_text: Above the roller is fixed the supply board g, and below is fixed the delivery
board h. The segment b is placed eccentrically to the roller a, so that the profile
edges nearly touch one another at the lower edge, whilst there is a greater distance
between them above.
The sugar or confection from which the sweet-meats are to be prepared is laid
in the form of a stick upon the receiving table g. The rotation of the roller a in
the direction of the arrows will draw the rod in between the segment and roller.
At the same time the knife edges of the profiles cut gradually in the rod, as
shown at kl, 11, the severed sweetsmeats being finally delivered on the delivery
table h.
As many differently grooved rollers and segments are supplied to each machine
as correspond with the shapes of sweetmeats to be produced.
And having now fully described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, be it known
that what is considered novel and useful, and what I desire to protect by Letters
Patent is,-
1st. In a sweetmeat machine the combination of a roller and segment placed
eccentrically to one another, furnished with cutting grooves and profiles, substantially
as and for the purpose described.
2nd. The construction of a sweetmeat machine, substantially as and for the
purpose described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Pearce Wilding, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of November, One thousand eight hundred
and eighty one.
In the presence of
JOHN C. FELL,
23, Rood Lane,
London, E.C.,
Patent Agent.
S. P. WILDING. (L.S.)