US405720A - Machine for making stick-candy - Google Patents

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(No Model.) 2Sheets-Sheet 1. J. SMITH.

MACHINE FOR MAKING STICK GANDY. No. 405,720. Patented June 25, 1889.

(No Model) 2 Sheefs-Sheet 2.

J.,. SMITH. MACHINE FOR MAKING STIGK CANDY.

No. 405,720. Y Patented June 25, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN SMITH, OF NORRISTOIVN, ASSIGNOR TO CROFT 85 ALLEN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

MACHINE FOR MAKING STICK-CANDY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 405,720, dated June 25, 1889. Application filed October 10, 1888. Serial No. 287,760. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it 77mg concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN SMITH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Norristown, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Making Stick- Candy, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to machines for making stick-candy; and my invention consists of a machine provided with a pair of inclined revolving rolls and a bearing for the mass of material supported by the rolls, all as fully set forth hereinafter, and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in ivhich' Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved candy-making machine. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation; Fig. 3, a detached view illustrating a table forming one of the adjuncts of the machine.

The frame A of the machine is suitably constructed to support the bcarin gs of two shafts 2 3, supporting two rolls 1 1, which may be conical or cylindrical, conical rolls being shown, the surfaces of the rolls being serrated or grooved longitudinally. The frame is inclined so as to support the rolls in an inclined position in respect to a table 1;, to which the frame is connected by hinged connections H 14, permitting the inclination of the rolls to the table to be altered at pleasure, legs 25 supporting the frame at the outer lower end. Above the rolls near the lower ends and upon an axis midway between those of the rolls turns a disk or plate I, the same being supported by a shaft or rod 5, on which the disk mayturn or to which it may be secured, in which latter case the shaft will turn in a bracket 7, secured to and projecting upward from the frame. Below and between the rolls is supported an elongated burner-as, for instance, a perforated gas-pipe Sto which gas is conducted by a flexible tube 9, the gas being ignited prior to operations, so as to afford a supply of hot air, which will flow upward between the rolls, On the ends of the shafts 2 3 are grooved pulleys 19 10, round which passes a driving-band 12, the pulley 19 being a double pulley, and being driven from any suitable motor by means of a driving band 13, so as to turn the two rolls in the same direction, as indicated by their arrows.

The lump or mass of softened sugar X is placed upon and between the rolls, resting thereon and against the disk 4, and as the rolls revolve it will, owing to their revolution and their inclination, be speedily reduced to a conical shape, the smaller end elongating toward the table, upon which it is drawn by the workman, who assists its formation into a rod of suitable dimensions by such slight manipulation as may be necessary, and who, when required, divides the rod as form ed into sticks of suitable length.

By means of the machine constructed and operating as set forth an unskilled workman can readily and quickly reduce the mass of material to the desired form.

\Vhen it is desired to color the surface of the sticks in whole or in part, a layer of colored material is applied to the surface of the lump, either in sheets, bands, or strips, according to the result desired, and this coloring ma terial may be heated preliminary to applying it, and while the mass of stick material X is not on the rolls, by placing it on a detachable table 0, consisting of a sheet 15 of metal having legs 16 17 adapted to rest on the frame of the machine and support the plate in a level position above the hot burner, from which it is heated.

I am aware that rollingmills have been made with two conical rolls and an anvil, by means of which amass of softened material, as metal, is compressed and formed into a cylinder by pressure. My invention differs from this by the use of two conical and inclined rolls, on which the mass of softened sugar rests with out compression, the rotation of the mass in connection with the drawing outof a portion at one end, which end is held so as not to roll, imparting a twist that gradually reduces the same to a cylindrical bar. The end bearing situated at the lower ends of the rolls and above them holds the mass in place while the rolling and twisting is being effected.

IVithout limiting myself to the precise construction and arrangement of parts shown, I claim 1. A candy-1n aking machine provided with two rollers arranged side by side, geared. to revolve in the same direction, and inclined from a horizontal line, and an end bearing arranged above the rolls at their lower ends, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the inclined revolving rolls and a bearing consisting of a revolving plate arranged above and between the rolls adjacent to their lower ends, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of a pair of tapering inclined rolls geared to revolve in the same direction, with their smaller ends elevated, and a bearing-plate in the form of a disk supported above the lower ends of the rolls, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination of a pair of separated revolving rolls, a bearing above the same at their lower ends, and a burner arranged below the space between the rolls, substantially 20 I rolls, and a detachable table 0, substantially 3o as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN SMITH.

l/Vitnesses S. SPENCER CHAPMAN, NATHAN 0. LANE.

the rolls, substantially as set 2 5

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