IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR BAKING OR MANUFACTURING OATCAKE
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Wright, of Shipley, in the County of York,
Oatcake Baker or Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR BAKING OR MANUFACTURING OATCAKE."
Sealed the 30th August 1864, and dated the 3rd March 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Wright at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 3rd
March 1864.
I, JOSEPH WRIGHT, of Shipley, in the County of York, Oatcake Baker or
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR BAKING OR MANUFACTURING OATCAKE,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the means of spreading out the dough and
throwing or laying it upon the bake-stone or bot plate by which it is
baked.
The improvements consist of a table mounted eccentrically and loosely on a

page_text: crank or eccentric fixed upon the end of a vertical spindle to which rotary
motion is given. The table does not rotate but is kept on the crank pin in
suitable position by chains connecting the table to the framework (underneath)
which supports the spindle. On each side of the bake-stone or hot plate is
fixed a rail extending a suitable distance beyond one end. A carriage is
mounted upon these rails having an endless cloth thereon, which receives
motion from the running wheels, so that when the said carriage is run over
the bake-stone the endless cloth will be inverted, or that part which is on the
upper side when the carriage is off the bake-stone will be underneath when
the carriage is over the bake-stone. Dough is placed on an ordinary
board upon the table and spread by the action or motion of the crank,
and then transferred to the cloth on the carriage, which, when run over
the bake-stone or hot plate, deposits the dough thereon in a regular layer or
cake.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph Wright in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd
September 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
WRIGHT, of Shipley, in the County of York, Oatcake Baker or Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Joseph Wright, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph Wright, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph
Wright, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR
APPARATUS FOR BAKING OR MANUFACTURING OATCAKE," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Wright, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of

page_text: the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Wright, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say):
This Invention relates to the means of spreading out the dough and
throwing or laying it upon the bake-stone or hot plate by which it is
baked.
The improvements consist of a table mounted eccentrically and loosely on a
crank or eccentric fixed upon the end of a vertical spindle to which rotary
motion is given. The table does not rotate but is kept on the crank pin in
suitable position by chains connecting the table to the famework underneath,
which supports the spindle. On each side of the bake-stone or hot plate is
fixed a rail extending a suitable distance beyond one end. A carriage is
mounted upon these rails having an endless cloth thereon, which receives
motion from the running wheels, so that when the said carriage is run over
the bake-stone the endless cloth will be inverted, or that part which is on the
upper side when the carriage is off the bake-stone will be underneath when
the carriage is over the bake-stone. Dough is placed on an ordinary
board upon the table and spread by the action or motion of the crank,
and then transferred to the cloth on the carriage, which, when run over
the bake-stone or hot plate, deposits the dough thereon in a regular layer or
cake.
The Invention will be readily understood by referring to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, where Fig. 1 is an elevation of the bake-stone or hot plate
with the rails and carriage, and Fig. 2 is a plan of the same; Fig. 3 is an
clevation of the table and supports, with apparatus for giving motion thereto
for "reeling" or spreading out the dough, and Fig. 4 is a plan of the
same.
A (Figs. 3 & 4), is the table, which is supported on a central pivot eccen-
tically placed upon a plate B, fixed on the top of a spindle B', which is capable
of rotating in a stand pillar B³, fixed to a plate or frame B³. The table is
balanced and the pivot held on to the plate by four adjustable chains 6 attached
thereto and to the frame; C is a spindle mounted in another stand pillar C³,
fixed to the frame. On this spindle is a pulley C² and a handle C³. A cord passes

page_text: around this pulley and around another pulley formed or fixed on the plate B.
By turning this handle rotary motion is given to the spindle and plate B, which
produces eccentric motion to the table according to the position of the pivot
on the plate, which may be placed nearer to or further from the centre of the
spindle as required. D (Figs. 3 & 4), is a portable board placed upon a
frame or betwixt ribs d on the table. Oatmeal is strewed upon this board,
and then dough poured thereon in the usual manner, and when motion is
given by the handle thereto the dough is spread out. The board is then
taken off the table to transfer the dough to the bake-stone in manuer herein-
after explained. E is a spout for the surplus oatmeal to pass from the tablo
to a receptacle F, placed on a pillar in a suitable position to receive it; G and
G' (Figs. 1 & 2), are two bake-stones or hot plates with furnaces underneath
them; 9 are the furnace doors, and g' the doors to the ashes places; H are
rails fixed to the sides of the bake-stone, and extending a suitable distanco
beyond or from one end thereof; I is a frame to support the rails, and to
which is hinged a weighted lever J. The carriage K is mounted by four
wheels Land L' upon the rails, and on the axes of the wheels L' is a roller or
barrel, around which and also around a rod L³ passes an endless cloth of any
suitable material M. The rotation of the carriage wheels gives motion to the
cloth, and the relative speed of the cloth to the speed of the carriage is regu-
lated by the relative size of roller to the size of the wheels L'. A cord N is
attached to the carriage, which, passing over and under the pullies O, P, Q, R,
is fastened to the rails at S. The carriage is held in its present position by a
entch T, and by a drop lever U. It will now be seen that if dough be placed
on the board D and spread out to the circular dotted line thereon and then
transferred to the endless apron as shewn at V, and if the lever U be then
lifted out of the catch and the carriage pushed in the direction of the arrow
over the bake-stone, as shewn by dotted lines thereon, the cloth will be turned
over and the dough will be deposited on the bake-stone G in an elongated form,
as seen at W (Fig. 2), where it will become baked on one side. It is then
to be turned over to the other bake-stone G' to be baked on the other side,
and another quantity of dough deposited on the bake-stone G as before
described, and so on.
Having thus fully described the nature of this my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is performed or carried into practical effect,
I would have it understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details
of apparatus as herein set forth, but what I claim as of my Invention is, the
constructing, combining, and arranging means or apparatus for baking or

page_text: manufacturing oatcake in the manner herein described, or any modification
thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Wright, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of September, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four.
Signed, scaled, and delivered by the
within-named Joseph Wright in
the presenco of
W. TASKER,
'Patent Agent,
Halifax.
JOSEPH WRIGHT. (L.S.)