provements in Apparatus for Making Up Butter and the like into Pats.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Dec. 1891-Accepted, 2nd Feb. 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
Improvements in Apparatus for Making Up Butter and the like
into Pats.
I, JOHN BAILEY, of King's Cliffe, Northamptonshme, Wood Turner and
Carver, 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
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My invention relates to the manufacture or making up of butter and such like
plastic materials into pats, and has for its object to provide a multiple apparatus
by which any requned number of pats of butter or the like of predetermined
Size and approximate weight may be simultaneously made up by hand and at the
same time stamped or impressed with any design if desired in a much easier and
simpler way than heretofore.
According to my invention I provide a board or block with aised edges at
either side of its face and with any desired number of preferably tapered mould
holes formed in it of such size and shape as may be required and of depth less
than that of the board In the base of each mould hole a hole is drilled through
the block which receives the handle of a false bottom or mould adapted to fit
the mould hole well, and which may bear on its face any desired sunk design.
I will fully describe my invention and method of pei forming same in reference
to the accompanying drawing in which
Fig. 1 is a plan and Fig. 2 an inverted plan of the board or block;
Fig. 3 a cross section on line 1-2 of Fig. 1;
Fig. 4 a view of block after turning out the pats and moulds, and Fig. 5 a view
of the latter inverted upon a table.
Similar letters refer to similar parts.
A is the block made of wood or suitable material and constructed with projecting
edges a' a on each side of both its faces; a. a. are the mould holes therein,
preferably tapered towards their bases as in Fig. 3. They do not extend through
the block, but each has a hole a drilled through the block at its base. These
nould holes are made of any suitable size and shape; they may be in the same
block all uniform or of varying dimensions as may be required. The thickness of
the board A is made to suit any required depth of pat. Baro the false bottoms or
moulds correspondingly tapered and fitting well into the mould holes a. a. and
having at the back projecting handles adapted to pass through the said holes a'
for a distance somewhat less than the height of the aised edges a', so that when
the block A is placed face upwards on a table as in Fig. 3 they will be clear of
the surface thereof when the pieces B are in position.
In use after inserting the moulds B in each mould hole a mass of butter is placed
upon the face of the block A and pressed into the moulds with an ordinary hand
knife or spatula of suitable kind, or with a roller plain or crimped, or otherwise
conveniently until Blush with their tops, the residue being sciaped off and removed.
The block may be covered temporarily with a light face board if required and is
then inverted upon the table, the handles b slightly pressed down so as to force
out the false bottoms or moulds B and simultaneously the pats of butter from the
mould holes on to the table; then the block 18 removed and the pats remain as in
Fig. 5, the block presenting the appearance of Fig. 4. The pats may then be
carried to where required by the handles of the false bottoms and are easily
detached therefrom by a gentle tap, each bearing on its surface the imprint of the
design sunk into the false bottom.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inveu-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim 15:-
1. A multiple apparatus for making up butter and the like into pats consisting
in the combination with a block such as A having raised edges and suitable mould
holes, of the removable false bottoms or moulds B for moulding and printing the
pats, all constructed and adapted to operate substantially as berein above set forth.
2. The construction of the improved apparatus for the purpose specified arranged
or operating substantially As described and illustrated.