US239743A

US239743A - Cake-machine

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Publication number: US239743A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1881-04-05
Anticipated expiration: 1898-04-05

Description

Patented April 5,188L

I-I. DUGSH. Cake` Machine.

(No Model.)

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NAFETHS, PNNI'I'LLITHDGRAFHER, WASHINGTON. D. C.

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VH. DUGSH.

, Cake Machine. No.' 239,743. Patented April 5,1881.

UNITED .STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY DUOsH, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, AssieNoR To J. w. RUGER AND AUGUSTUS RUGER, F BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

CAKE-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 239,748. dated April 5, 1881.

Application led January 8, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY DUesH, of Ball timore, in the county of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented new and useful `through which the soft dough is forced by means of a follower or plunger and cut up into cakes by. means of reciprocating knives.

The invention relates more particularly to the construction o f thecuttingmechauism, and has for its object to simplify the construction of the cutting mechanism and increase its speed and efficacy.

My invention consi-sts of the construction and arrangement ot' they mechanism whereby the movement of the cutter is controlled, as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, consisting of two sheets, Figure l is a side elevation ot a machine provided with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal secti'onal elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section in line oo Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation of the cutter mechanism on an enlarged scale.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several figures. A

A A represent the side frames of the machine.

B is the dough-box, secured between the upper portions ofthe side frames, AA, and O is the endlessfeed-apron, arranged longitudinally between the lower portions of the side frames, A, below the doughbox B.

, d is the horizontal driving-shaft, supported iu bearings in the lower parts of the side frames below the endless apron, and D is the drivin g-pulley secured to one end of the shaft d.

e is a horizontal shaft, arranged above the dough-box B in bearings formed in the upper ends of the upper portions ofthe side frames.

F is a ra-tehet-wheel secured to one end of the shaft e, and f is an armprovided with a pawl, whereby the ratehetwheel is rotated at every forward movement of the arm f.

g is a rod. whereby the-arm f is actuated from a rock-lever, G, pivoted to one of the side frames, and H is an eccentric mounted on the driving-shaft d, and imparting motion t0 the rock-lever Gr by a rod, h. The rod gis connected with the rock-lever by means of a bolt, which is adjustable in a slotin the lever, whereby the throw ot' the arm f is regulated.

i is a vertical screw-shaft which actuates the follower, and l I are a pair of bevel-wheels, which transmit motion from the horizontal shaft o to the screw-shaft t'.

K represents a gear-wheel secured to the driving-shaft d on the outerside of each side frame, A. and L is a similar gear-wheel turning on an arbor on each side frame, A, and meshing with the corresponding wheel K.

l Z are two connecting-rods, which are pivoted with one end to the wheels L, which serve as crank-wheels, and with the other end to a cross-head, M, which extends across the machine above the endless apron in the rear of the dough-box.

m are longitudinal bars or arms, whichV are rigidly secured to the cross-head M,l and eX- tend forward of the same under the doughboX, where they carry the wire cutters n,which are secured transversely between the ends of the arms mA o is a link-shaped guide or groove `arranged on the inner side of the upper portion of each side frame, A,`below the bottom of the doughboX ;4 ando is a stud, pin, or roller attached to the outer arms, m, and running iuthe'adjacent groove o. The latter is so formed that during the forward movement of the crosshead M the rollers ol will travel in the upper horizontal part of the guide and keep the cut-V ters in contact with the bott-om of the doughbox, thereby severing the dough protruding from the apertures of ,the dough-box, while during the return movement of the cutter relaxed and permit the rollers o to descend from the upper to the lower part of the groove o, and that during the backward movement of the cutters the springs p will be strained, so

that when the limit of the backward movement is reached the rollers o will'be drawn up from the lower to the upper part of the groove by the tension of the springs. The apertures through which the dough is forced from the dough-box are preferably surrounded by downwardly-projecting collars or cups s, having on the side from which the cutter approaches the aperture an inclined rib, s', which dcpresses the wire-cutter and guides the latter upon the face of the aperture. The apertures are formed in a plate which is removably fitted in the bottom of the dough-box, so that plates with apertures of different forms may be used' at the desire of the operator. The wires n cut a row of cakes during their forward movement, then drop and return below the projecting dough, and are then raised up to again 25 make their forward and cutting movement in contact with the bottom of the dough-box.

The guides o are provided with an opening at their rear sides, through which the rollers or pins o are introduced into the guides and withdrawn therefrom.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination, with the dough-box, of a reciprocating cutter, link-shaped guides o, whereby the cutter is alternately raised and lowered, and mechanism whereby the movement of the cutter-frame in the guides is controlled, substantially as set forth.

2j The combination7 with the dough-box B` ofthe cross-head M, provided with arms m, having rollers or pins o', and carrying the cutter n, link-shaped guides o, and springs p, substantially as set forth.

HENRY DUC-SH.

Witnesses JNO. T. MADDOX, R. D. WILLIAMS.