Improved Means for Cutting Up into Cubes or Oblongs Solidifled Spirits.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 10th June, 1899-Accepted, 19th Aug.,
1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Cutting Up into Cubes or Oblongs Solidifled
Spirits.
I, HEINRICH HEMPEL, of 6, Gneisenaustrasse, Berlin, Empire of Germany,
Engineer, 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 present invention relates to means for cutting up into cubes or oblongs,
solidified spirit, produced by a process described in my Application for Patent
No. 1843 dated January 26th 1899.
The object of the present invention is to provide convenient means for cutting
up sheets of the solidified spirits, herein before mentioned, into blocks of the
desired and convenient size.
And in order to render the present specification more easily intelligible reference
is had to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which similar letters of reference
denote similar parts throughout the several views: --
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a casing into which the spirit is placed and allowed
to cool down to form sheets of the solid material. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the
bottom plate of the casing when the top and sides have been removed, Fig. 3 is a
plan of a supporting board or plate for supporting the sheets whilst they are
being cut, Fig. 4 is a section on line A-B of Figure 3, Fig. 5 is a front
elevation of the set of knives for cutting up the sheet and Fig. 6 an end elevation of
the cutter supporting bar showing one of the cutter blades thereon.
The mould in which the sheets of the solidified spirits are cut, consists of the
top and bottom plate a and b, having a frame c clamped between them by means
of the clamping screws dd. The top plate may be provided with the inlet pipe €
for the melted product and an air outlet pipe f. The inlet pipe e could also be
attached to one of the sides of the frame c if so desired. Several of these moulds
may be connected by one common inlet pipe. When the moulds have been filled and
the contents allowed to harden i.e. to cool down, when the spirit above mentioned
attains the solid form, the upper plate b and the frame c are removed leaving the
sheet of solid spirits on the lower plate a. This plate together with the sheet
of spirits is then placed in one corner of a shallow tray g having arranged along
two of its adjacent sides g¹, 92, strips or beadings. 1, 22, fitted just above the
bottom plate so as to allow the edge of the plate a to pass thereunder as will be
seen from the section of Fig. 4. In order to cut the sheet into the required cubes
or oblong pieces the cutter as shown at Fig. 5 is employed which consists of a
series of cutters m m mounted on a common shaft n, having handle o attached to
its ends at p, said cutters being arranged at a distance apart about equal to the
thickness of the sheet of solidified spirits represented at h in Figures 2 and 3.
When the sheet h has been placed in the corner of the tray g as indicated at Fig. 3
the cutter is placed at the side 1 and drawn through the sheet to the side 2 after
which it is placed at the side 3 and drawn through the sheet to the side 4, so that
the sheet will be cut into a series of cubes which should advantageously be of
about one centimeter in size. If the cutters m m of the device are arranged

page_text: further apart when cutting in one of the two directions, it will be obvious that
oblong blocks will be attained and if the said cutters are arranged further apart
when cutting in both directions, obviously tablets will be attained.
In conducting the cutting operation, the sheet of solidified spirits should
be kept in the open air as short a time as possible, since the product being cut is
somewhat volatile.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1: Device for moulding and cutting into blocks solidified spirits consisting of
a mould having top and bottom plates b and a, a frame c there between and means
for filling the said mould, and a supporting plate or tray 9 having strips or
beadings i, i, arranged as specified to support the sheet of material to be cut
and a series of cutter blades m, m mounted on a carrier bar n and provided with
suitable handle in the manner and for the purpose substantially as described.
2: The combination of a series of cutter blades arranged at different distances
apart for cutting the sheet in different directions substantially as described.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and 25, Cross Street, Manchester,
Agents.