US154818A - Improvement in lozenge-machines - Google Patents

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2 sheets sheet 1. A. P. YATES 8|. 1. W ALIER Lounge-Machines.

Patented Sept. 8,1874.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR P. YATES AND JOSEPH WALIER, OF SYRACUSE, NEW -YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN LOZ ENGE-MACHINES.

Specification formin g part of Letters Patent No. 154,818, dated September 8, 1874; application filed July 10, 1874.

To all whom it may concern I Be it known that we, ARTHUR P. YATns and JosEPH WALIER, both of the city of Syfication, with its accompanying drawings, is

a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention'consists in the arrangement of rollers in sets, one above the other upon the same standard, so that the paste, after it has been passed through one set of rollers, is completely turned over before it reaches another set of rollers; also, in the construction of the main driving-wheel, which gives three different motions to the machine.

In the drawings, Figure I shows a side cleva'tion of the-machine; Fig. II, asection of the rollers upon the line as m, Fig. I; and. Fig. III, a sectional elevation of the hollow cutters upon the line y 51 Fig. I.

The frame-work of the machine is intended to be of cast-iron The rollers are arranged in sets, one above another, upon the same standard; Each set is arranged closer than the last preceding set above .it, so that thethickness of thepaste may be properly graduated. These rollers are provided with bands and cog-wheels,

so that they derive their motion from the main driving-wheel, but the last set of rollers is independent of the preceding sets above it; the first two sets of rollers have continuous motion, but the third set receives intermittent motion by means of a ratchet-Wheel that is operated by a lever and one or more pins on the main driving-wheel, which, as this Wheel revolves, engage with the lever, turning the ratchet-wheel only a part of the distance on its axle, when the pin andle-ver separate. The driving-wheel also imparts motion to the vertical hollow cutters and the printing device by means of toggle-jointed levers, and the machinery is so arranged that, as the lower apron intermittently forwards the paste from the last. preceding set of rollers, the paste is first printed and then carried under the ho]- low cutters; thelozenges, falling underneath, are carried on a traveling band to a suitable receptacle, while the scrap paste is carried to a separate tray. The paste, when mixed, is placed in the trough A, whence, by motion of the machine, it is drawn through the first set i over. This permits the opposite side of the paste to be powdered from another sugar-box,

F, arranged over the apron E. The paste is now carried through rollers G, which again reduce the thickness of the paste, which is then carried forward by the apron H under the sugar-box I, after which the paste is again turned over upon the apron J, which carries it beneath the sugar-box K through the last set of rollers, L, where it is finally reduced to the desired thickness and discharged with an intermittent motion upon the delivery-apron M. The motion of this apron is received from? the ratchet-wheel N, and the distance traveled by this delivery-apron is regulated by an adjustable pin, P, at each partial revolution of Intermittent mo- I tion is also given to the apron J by its being attached to the rollers L, which gear into the ratchet-wheel N. But a continuous motion is .3 given to the two upper sets of rollers, that the main driving-Wheel O.

are connected by large gear-wheels, by means of another large gear-wheel, Q, and the band U which joins it to the main driving-Wheel. The delivery-apron carries the paste forward until it reaches a printer, R, that is operated by the levers b T and the levers 2, 3, and 4t, and an inking-roller is attached to the circu-a lar arm u, so that every time the lever T reciprocates up and down the type is freshly V v inked. Of course, there are placed as manyyf printing devices on the printing-barR as there f: are hollow cutters, but it may be desirable to 7 make plain lozenges; in such case, the printin g bar is disconnected from the machine. Thenext intermittent motion of the delivery-apron carries the printed paste forward under a row or set of hollow cutters, w, on top of the table 2. These cutters are worked by the lovers 2 and 3, united upon the principle of the toggle-joint, and all of them so connected as to be operated by the main driving-wheel,'and the levers are arranged to operate so that the cutters will be forced through the paste one or more times on every revolution of the drivingwheel. The standard 5 serves to hold the paste firmly during the act of cutting. The lozenges fall through the hollow cutters onto another delivery-apron, 6, so as to be carried to trays at a distance; or, instead, they may fall into trays set right beneath the cutters. The scrap paste is carried upon apron 7 into a separate tray-box, and then it is molded over again.

By the construction of the wheel 0 continuous motion is imparted to rollers B and G by means of wheel Q and band U. Intermittent motion is given to the rollers L and the band M by means of a ratchet wheel and bar which are operated by the adjustable pins P, and a vertical reciprocating motion is given to the printing device R and the hollow cutters w by means of the levers 2, 3, and 4, which operate on the principle of a toggle-joint.

We are aware that many of the elements shown in this machine are not new. We lay no claim to graduated paste-rollers or sugarboxes, or the printing device, or the hollow cutters; but we represent that great economy in space is gained in our construction of machine by placing the graduating paste-rollers all upon the same standard, and which we believe to be an improvement upon the patented machine of W. E. Demant, No. 5,171, Decemher 3, 18 72; and we further specify as novel the construction of the main driving-wheel, which gives three different motions.

We claim 1. The combination, upon one standard, of the graduated paste-rollers, arranged in pairs. with the traveling-aprons, so that when the paste is passed between one pair it is inverted before it reaches the succeeding pair of rollers, and is also diminished in thickness as it passes through each succeeding pair, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the Wheel 0 with the levers 2'3 4 and the levers S T, whereby continuous reciprocating motion is imparted to the printing device, and also to the hollow cutters, for the purpose specified.

3. The combination of the ratchet-wheel N with the main driving-wheel O, thelower pair of rollers L, and the traveling apron M, for the purpose of giving intermittent motion to the rollers and the apron, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we hereunto subscribe our names at the city of Syracuse, New York, in the presence of two attesting witnesses, on this the 1st day of July, 1874.

' ARTHUR P. YATES.

JOSEPH WALIER. Witnesses:

E. S. DAWSON, S. HERTIG.

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