Adjustable Table with Mixing Trough for Butchers.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 16th June, 1894-Accepted, 21st July, 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Adjustable Table with Mixing Trough for Butchers.
1, WILHELM REIF, Work-master of Wilhelmshafen, Königstrasse No. 54, in
the Province of Hannover and Kingdom of Prussia 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 :-
In the manufacture of sausages up to the present either an ordinary butcher's
trough or a mixing trough attached to an under-frame and into which the sausage-
meat chopped on a special table was thrown, was used for mixing the sausage-meat.
These two separate utensils naturally take up considerable space, and as this is not
at the disposal of every butcher and much room is already taken up by other
utensils, meat blocks, benches etc. the use of a special mixing-trough is only possible
in large slaughter-houses; the smaller ones must, as has already been stated, be
satisfied with an ordinary trough which is placed on a form in front of the chopping-
table and is supported by blocks of wood to keep it from falling over. This support is
naturally of a very dubious kind; the work is rendered very uncertain, the least
unskilfulness on the part of the work-man causing the trough to fall down from its
support.
In order to remedy the disadvantages enumerated, I have constructed a table
which simultaneously holds the mixing-trough without taking up any extra room.
The annexed drawing in Figs. 1 and 2 represents the table with mixing-trough in
a side-view and a view from above;
Fig. 3 shews the table and trough when used simultaneously and
Fig. 4 shews the arrangement of the table when the mixing-trough only is
being used.
The table consists of the frame and the top. The frame is formed of four iron
rails a a, bb, which for the sake of greater stability are connected with each other
and stiffened by means of stays c c₁, the iron rails being shaped like an arch at the
top, so that by the connection of two of these rails a a, or bb₁ a semicircular
support for the mixing-trough is formed. The table-top d, which is movably
connected in a suitable manner by hinges with corresponding frame-rails a₁ b₁ and
is provided with a square opening g closed by a plate, rests on this frame. The
feet or supports e are movably attached to the short sides of the table-top d. These
feet may be attached to the sides of the frame, as long as the top dis lying on it and
secured by pins in this position. If the table is to be used as an ordinary table the
supports e are attached, in the manner just described, to the top d and the latter
placed on the frame in the position shewn in Figs. 1 and 2. In this manner the
table is used to cut bacon and brawn etc., the plate over the opening g being taken
out, so that the pieces cut can now be thrown through this opening into the
mixing-trough. It is now absolutely impossible, as often happened in former
arrangements, for pieces of meat to fall on the ground.
When the table and mixing-trough are to be used simultaneously, the pin fis
pulled out and the plate a placed in the position drawn in Fig. 3 and supported in
it by the feet e. If only the trough is to be used, the top d is let down on the side
of the frame in the manner represented in Fig. 4 after the supports e have been
secured by pins.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
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movably attached to the frame and supplied with feet e and an opening 9 capable
of being closed, the position of which can be changed according to the way in which
the apparatus is employed.
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For WILHELM REIF,
B. Brockhues.