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  • the present invention broadly stated, relates to improved apparatus for rapidly aging solidified plastic articles and has more particular relation to the rapidly aging of bars, blocks or cakes of soap and while the herein disclosed apparatus is adapted for the rapid aging of other solidified plastics,
  • bar-soap In the manufacture of bar-soap, as now practised, soap is first molded, then out into slabs and finally cut into elongated bars and placed upon racks-where the soap re mains for days at a time to dry or age, the length of time depending a great deal upon existing weather conditions. The bars of soap thus dried or aged are then cut into cakes of proper size for commercial use.
  • bar-soap is commercially unsatisfactory for a number of reasons. For instance, by permitting soap to stand for long periods of time, as above described, it develops a surface efliorescence or formation of fine, white, salt crystals. Further, undue penetration of dryness takes place thus causing shrinkage of soap and resultant loss of weight. Still further, the bars of soap often become distorted or misshaped through long standing and perfume used for scenting the soap rapidly exudates. These and other disadvantageous results all tend to render the method now practised exceedingly slow, unsatisfactory and expensive.
  • This invention has for its principal object to overcome these disadvantageous features and provide improved and novel apparatus for the rapid aging of bar-soap whereby a more commercially valuable product is obtained than is now upon the market, in a much more rapid manner and at considerable less expense.
  • a further object of the present invention is to provide new and novel apparatus caloulated to automatically discharge, at a predetermined point, the soap as aged.
  • a still further object of the present invention is to provide at the point of discharge means for causing an endless conveyer to move at an inclination to an inclined apron whereby bars of soap as carried by the conveyer are individually overturned by impinging against fixed finger-pieces and caused to fall to the apron.
  • a still further object of the present invention resides in the provision of a guide piece so shaped and arranged as to cause the conveyer to move at an inclination at the point of discharge.
  • a still further object is to provide such a discharge apparatus as above recited characterized by few and simple parts, whereby danger of mis-shaping the bar-soap is reduced to a minimum.
  • Other and further objects of the present invention reside in the providing of general details of construction and in the arrangement, connection and construction of parts as will hereinafter more fully appear.
  • FIG. 1 is a fragmentary view in sec tion of the discharge device embodying the invention.
  • Fig. 2 is an end view thereof.
  • the surface of the soap is first partially modified, then there is developed a jelly-like investing integument and then this integument is fixed.
  • the dischargingapparatus about to be described is located in the dlscharge chamber of the housing above referred to and is for automatically discharging the bars of soap as provided with the jelly-like investing integument.
  • 10 designates the discharge chamber of a generally rectangular structure or housing 11. Movable through said chamber 10 is an endless conveyer provided with free swinging hangers 0r holders as fully shown and described in my co-pending application travel at an inclination as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1. Sprocket wheels 14-15 mounted upon shafts 16-17 carried by the housing 11 are employed for causing the belt-chains'to travel at said inclination. In order that the soap holders may be bodily shifted to follow the inclined runs of the endless chain belts,
  • a pair of fixed spaced guides 18 18 are present. These guides comprise thin, narrow strips positioned between the belt chains 1212 (as clearly illustrated in Fig. 2) each in the path of travel of a hanger upright 19 so that the lower reinforced portion 20 of eachupright may track upon a guide. As shown in Fig. 1, the guides 18-18 substantially parallel therun of the belt-chains. Connected acrosscompartment 10 is a horizontal support 21 fixed upon which are a pair of spaced finger-pieces 22-22, preferably of nvood, having beveled working faces 22, which finger-pieces are located in juxtaposition to the inclined runs of the belt-chains and between the guides 1818, see Fig. 2.
  • FIG. 2 An inspection of Fig. 2 discloses 'that-th'ese finger-pieces straddlea soap supporting plate 23 of a hanger 13 in its travel.
  • An apron 24, disposed at an inclination to the inclined runsofthe chain belts is present as shown in Fig. 1, the closed compartment whlch contains a coollng atmosphere belng provided with openmgs for the passage "therethrough of the apron runs.
  • plastic articles particularly bar-soap
  • plastic articles may be automatically discharged for stamping or embossing, for wrapping or for immediate packing.
  • the discharge device reduces to a minimum the possibility of den'ting or otherwise mutilating the plastic article which is most important, commercially considered.
  • Apparatus of the character stated comprising a pair of endless belt-chains, a plurality of free swinging hangers supported therebetween *for the conveyance of plastic articles, means for guiding a portion of said belt-chain runs at an inclination to the normal runs thereof, guides positioned between said belt chains for causing said hangers to follow in tilted position the line of said inclined runs and fixed fingers disposed in the path of travel of said plastic articles for freeing the same from a tilted hanger.
  • Apparatus of the character stated comprising a pair of endless belt-chains, a plurality of free swinging, substantially U- shaped hangers supported therebetween for the conveyance of plastic articles, means for guiding a portion of said belt-chain runs at an inclination to the normal runs thereof, spaced guides positioned between said beltchains upon which the hanger bottoms in tilted position travel in following the inclined runs of the belt chains and fixed fingers in the path of travel of and positioned to straddle a hanger bottom and free a plastic article as carried by a tilted hanger.
  • Apparatus of the character stated comprising a pair of endless belt chains, a plurality of free swinging hangers supported therebetween for the conveyance of plastic articles, pointed elements carried by said hangers for penetrating said plastic articles to prevent accidental displacement, means for guiding a portion of said belt chains at an inclination to the normal runs thereof, means for causing the hangers in tilted position to follow the line of said inclined runs and fixed fingers for freeing a plastic article from its secured position upon a tilted hanger.
  • Apparatus of the character stated comprising a pair of endless belt chains, a plurality of free swinging hangers supported therebetween for the conveyance of plastic articles, pointed elements carried by said hangers for penetrating said plastic articles to prevent accidental displacement, means for guiding a portion of said belt chains at Copies of this patent may be'obtained for five cents each, by addressing the an inclination to the normal runs thereof, means for causing the hangers in tilted position to follow the line of said inclined runs and fixed finger-pieces having beveled working faces for freeing a plastic article from its secured position upon a tilted hanger.
  • discharge mechanism embracing in combination a pair of endless belt chains, substantially U-shaped hangers carried by and having free swinging relation between said chains, which hangers are adapted to carry solidified plastic articles, means for guiding a portion of the chain runs at an inclination to the normal line thereof, guides paralleling the line of travel of said inclined runs, the bottoms of the uprights of which U- shaped hangers travel upon said guides to tilt the hangers to discharging position and fixed fingers operative for freeing an article from a hanger so tilted.
  • Apparatus of the character stated comprising a pair of endless belt chains, a plurality of free swinging holders supported therebetween for the conveyance of plastic articles, substantially horizontally disposed fixed fingers for freeing a plastic article from a hanger and means for tilting a hanger so that it travels in a plane to intersect the plane of said fingers.
  • Apparatus of the character stated comprising a pair of endless belt chains, a plurality of free swinging holders supported therebetween for the conveyance of plastic articles, substantially horizontally disposed fixed fingers having beveled working ends for freeing a plastic article from a hanger and means for tilting a hanger so that it travels in a plane to intersect the plane of said fingers.

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DE NABD w. B. YOUNG. APPARATUS FOR RAPIDLY A'GING soummn PLASTIC ARTICLES.
APPLICATION FILED NOV. 26, 1911-" 1,294,016. Patented Feb. 11, 1919.
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DE NARI) W. B. YOUNG, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO SOAP WORKS EQUIPMENT COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.
APPARATUS FOR RAPIDLY AGING SOLIDFIED PLASTIC ARTICLES.
Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Feb. 11, 1919.
Original application filed January 10, 1916, Serial No. 71,150. Divided and application filed March 27, 1917, Serial No. 157,636. Divided and this application filed November 26, 1917. Serial No. 203,918.
To all whom it may concern: 7
Be it known that I, DE NARD W. B. YOUNG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Apparatus for Rapidly Aging Solidified Plastic Articles, of which the following is a specification, the same being a division of my application serially numbered 157,636, :filed March-27, 1917, which'application is a division of application Serial Number 71,150, filed Jan. 10,1916, patented Nov. 13, 1917, No. 1,246,515. r I
The present invention, broadly stated, relates to improved apparatus for rapidly aging solidified plastic articles and has more particular relation to the rapidly aging of bars, blocks or cakes of soap and while the herein disclosed apparatus is adapted for the rapid aging of other solidified plastics,
. it is particularly fitted for the aging of what is termed in the trade bar-soap,and for illustrative purposes, the following description will be restricted thereto.
In the manufacture of bar-soap, as now practised, soap is first molded, then out into slabs and finally cut into elongated bars and placed upon racks-where the soap re mains for days at a time to dry or age, the length of time depending a great deal upon existing weather conditions. The bars of soap thus dried or aged are then cut into cakes of proper size for commercial use. As thus manufactured, bar-soap is commercially unsatisfactory for a number of reasons. For instance, by permitting soap to stand for long periods of time, as above described, it develops a surface efliorescence or formation of fine, white, salt crystals. Further, undue penetration of dryness takes place thus causing shrinkage of soap and resultant loss of weight. Still further, the bars of soap often become distorted or misshaped through long standing and perfume used for scenting the soap rapidly exudates. These and other disadvantageous results all tend to render the method now practised exceedingly slow, unsatisfactory and expensive.
This invention has for its principal object to overcome these disadvantageous features and provide improved and novel apparatus for the rapid aging of bar-soap whereby a more commercially valuable product is obtained than is now upon the market, in a much more rapid manner and at considerable less expense.
A further object of the present invention is to provide new and novel apparatus caloulated to automatically discharge, at a predetermined point, the soap as aged. A still further object of the present invention is to provide at the point of discharge means for causing an endless conveyer to move at an inclination to an inclined apron whereby bars of soap as carried by the conveyer are individually overturned by impinging against fixed finger-pieces and caused to fall to the apron. A still further object of the present invention resides in the provision of a guide piece so shaped and arranged as to cause the conveyer to move at an inclination at the point of discharge. A still further object is to provide such a discharge apparatus as above recited characterized by few and simple parts, whereby danger of mis-shaping the bar-soap is reduced to a minimum. Other and further objects of the present invention reside in the providing of general details of construction and in the arrangement, connection and construction of parts as will hereinafter more fully appear.
With these and other objects in view the invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described and finally claimed.
,The nature, characteristic features and scope of the invention will be more fully iuiderstood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part hereof and in which:
Figure 1 is a fragmentary view in sec tion of the discharge device embodying the invention, and
Fig. 2 is an end view thereof.
For the purpose of illustrating my in vention, I have shown in the accompanying drawin s one form thereof which is at present preferred by me, since the same has been found in practice to give satisfactory and reliable results although it is to be understood that the various instrumentalities of In the aging of bar-soap according to the present invention, apparatus is employed as fully shown and described in my application for Letters Patent serially numbered 71,150 which briefly stated consists of a housing divided into a receiving, a heating and a discharge chamber through which chambers passes an endless conveyer equipped 'W1l3l1 'free swinging hangers for holding the soap. In its passage through these compartments, the surface of the soap is first partially modified, then there is developed a jelly-like investing integument and then this integument is fixed. The dischargingapparatus about to be described is located in the dlscharge chamber of the housing above referred to and is for automatically discharging the bars of soap as provided with the jelly-like investing integument. In the drawings 10 designates the discharge chamber of a generally rectangular structure or housing 11. Movable through said chamber 10 is an endless conveyer provided with free swinging hangers 0r holders as fully shown and described in my co-pending application travel at an inclination as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1. Sprocket wheels 14-15 mounted upon shafts 16-17 carried by the housing 11 are employed for causing the belt-chains'to travel at said inclination. In order that the soap holders may be bodily shifted to follow the inclined runs of the endless chain belts,
a pair of fixed spaced guides 18 18 are present. These guides comprise thin, narrow strips positioned between the belt chains 1212 (as clearly illustrated in Fig. 2) each in the path of travel of a hanger upright 19 so that the lower reinforced portion 20 of eachupright may track upon a guide. As shown in Fig. 1, the guides 18-18 substantially parallel therun of the belt-chains. Connected acrosscompartment 10 is a horizontal support 21 fixed upon which are a pair of spaced finger-pieces 22-22, preferably of nvood, having beveled working faces 22, which finger-pieces are located in juxtaposition to the inclined runs of the belt-chains and between the guides 1818, see Fig. 2. It willbe understood that these finger-pieces are so positioned that slight clearance is present forthe soap holders in their travel past said fingerpieces. An inspection of Fig. 2 discloses 'that-th'ese finger-pieces straddlea soap supporting plate 23 of a hanger 13 in its travel. An apron 24, disposed at an inclination to the inclined runsofthe chain belts is present as shown in Fig. 1, the closed compartment whlch contains a coollng atmosphere belng provided with openmgs for the passage "therethrough of the apron runs.
In operation the soap-holders or hangers each with a soap-bar 25 thereon move in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 1 through the cooling atmosphere in compartment 10, the hangers being steadied by the guides 18. It will be understood that such soap-bars are moist and are provided with a thin jelly like investing integument. As each hanger nears the inclined runs of the chain-belts, it gradually changes its position until it reaches the finger-pieces 22 22 at which time it is so inclined that the bar of soap being conveyed is standing upon end. The
ends ofthe bar of soap now impinge against the fixed finger-pieces 22-22 and as the holder or hanger moves upon its way, the
,bar of soap is caused to overturn and fall upon the apron 24. In this connection it is to be noted that a bar of soap is normally held in position upon a plate 23 of a holder by projections 26 of which there are two. Thus'until the finger-pieces cause the overturning of a bar of soap, displacement thereof is reduced toa minimum even though the runs of the eonveyer be inclined. Since the hanger uprights and plate form a substantially U-shaped construction, a bar of soap may be readily'overturned through a hanger as a whole by the finger pieces.
By the above described apparatus, plastic articles, particularly bar-soap, may be automatically discharged for stamping or embossing, for wrapping or for immediate packing. In this connection, it is to be observed thatthe discharge device reduces to a minimum the possibility of den'ting or otherwise mutilating the plastic article which is most important, commercially considered.
It will now be apparent that I have devised a novel and useful apparatus which embodies the features of advantage enumerated as-desirable in the statement of the invention andthe above description and while "I have in the present instance shown and described the preferred embodiment thereof which has been found in practice to give satisfactory and reliable results, it is to be understood that the same is susceptible of modification in various particulars without departing from'the spirit or scope of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages and that I have in mind the treating of -plastic articles other than soap.
.What I claim is: '1. Apparatus of the character stated comprising a pair of endless belt-chains, a plurality of free swinging hangers supported therebetween *for the conveyance of plastic articles, means for guiding a portion of said belt-chain runs at an inclination to the normal runs thereof, guides positioned between said belt chains for causing said hangers to follow in tilted position the line of said inclined runs and fixed fingers disposed in the path of travel of said plastic articles for freeing the same from a tilted hanger.
2. Apparatus of the character stated comprising a pair of endless belt-chains, a plurality of free swinging, substantially U- shaped hangers supported therebetween for the conveyance of plastic articles, means for guiding a portion of said belt-chain runs at an inclination to the normal runs thereof, spaced guides positioned between said beltchains upon which the hanger bottoms in tilted position travel in following the inclined runs of the belt chains and fixed fingers in the path of travel of and positioned to straddle a hanger bottom and free a plastic article as carried by a tilted hanger.
3. Apparatus of the character stated comprising a pair of endless belt chains, a plurality of free swinging hangers supported therebetween for the conveyance of plastic articles, pointed elements carried by said hangers for penetrating said plastic articles to prevent accidental displacement, means for guiding a portion of said belt chains at an inclination to the normal runs thereof, means for causing the hangers in tilted position to follow the line of said inclined runs and fixed fingers for freeing a plastic article from its secured position upon a tilted hanger. V
4. Apparatus of the character stated comprising a pair of endless belt chains, a plurality of free swinging hangers supported therebetween for the conveyance of plastic articles, pointed elements carried by said hangers for penetrating said plastic articles to prevent accidental displacement, means for guiding a portion of said belt chains at Copies of this patent may be'obtained for five cents each, by addressing the an inclination to the normal runs thereof, means for causing the hangers in tilted position to follow the line of said inclined runs and fixed finger-pieces having beveled working faces for freeing a plastic article from its secured position upon a tilted hanger.
5. In apparatus of the character stated, discharge mechanism embracing in combination a pair of endless belt chains, substantially U-shaped hangers carried by and having free swinging relation between said chains, which hangers are adapted to carry solidified plastic articles, means for guiding a portion of the chain runs at an inclination to the normal line thereof, guides paralleling the line of travel of said inclined runs, the bottoms of the uprights of which U- shaped hangers travel upon said guides to tilt the hangers to discharging position and fixed fingers operative for freeing an article from a hanger so tilted.
6. Apparatus of the character stated comprising a pair of endless belt chains, a plurality of free swinging holders supported therebetween for the conveyance of plastic articles, substantially horizontally disposed fixed fingers for freeing a plastic article from a hanger and means for tilting a hanger so that it travels in a plane to intersect the plane of said fingers.
7. Apparatus of the character stated comprising a pair of endless belt chains, a plurality of free swinging holders supported therebetween for the conveyance of plastic articles, substantially horizontally disposed fixed fingers having beveled working ends for freeing a plastic article from a hanger and means for tilting a hanger so that it travels in a plane to intersect the plane of said fingers.
In. testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name.
DE NARD W. B. YOUNG.
"Commissioner of Patents,
Washington, D. G.
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