US561298A - Beating and mixing machine for confectionersj use - Google Patents

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J. WERNER. BEATING AND MIXING MACHINE FOR GONFECTIONERS USE. No. 561,298.

Patented June 2, 1896.-

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I UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN XVERNER, OF ROCHESTER, NEWV YORK.

BEATING AND MIXING MACHINE FOR CONFECTIONERS U SE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 561,298, dated June 2, 1896.

Application filed January 13, 1896. Serial No. 575,862. (No model.)

T0 11 whom it nuty concern: I

Be it known that I, JOHN l/VERNER, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Beating and Mixing Machines for Confectioners Use; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the drawings accompanying this application. My improvement relates to syrup beating and mixing machines in which spirally-ribbed rollers force the syrup forward through a casing.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan view of the machine with the top plate removed. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same in line new of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged crosssection in line 3 g of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is Fig. 5 is a 1ongitudinal vertical section of one of the journal-bearings.

A A indicate a four-chambered casing, in which are located four spirally-ribbed rollers B B and B B, two above and two below, with a partition a separating them. The rollers are so disposed that the two upper ones B B feed the syrup forward from the entrance'spout h to the opposite end of the machine, where it falls through an opening 0 in the central partition, and is then fed back in the reverse direction by the rollers B B, and is finally discharged at the exit-spout d into a suitable receptacle. The journals of the rollers extend through the ends of the casing and are driven by a set of gears 1 2 3 4 5 6, so arranged that the two lower rollers B B run faster than the upper ones, thereby al ways insuring a free discharge and prevent ing any clogging.

Each of the rollers is made in sections f f f by turning V-shaped grooves at intervals in the roller down as deep as the spiral ribs 9 g, or deeper, and in these grooves rest V shaped flanges h h of the casing, fitting closely therein. The flanges extend only half-way round and rest in the lower half of the grooves, thereby leaving the top surface of the rollers entirely open and forming a passage-way for the syrup over the top of the rollers from end to end of the machine. ting in the lower half of the grooves effectually cut off the passage of the syrup under the rollers, forming stops and causing the spiral ribs of the rollers to force it to the top. The spiral ribs incline outward and upward, whereby the tendency is to carry the syrup toward the center, thus facilitating its passage and thoroughly grinding it up.

K Kare two independent heads of the two upper rollers, located at the discharge end, or the end away from the feed-spout, and provided with spiral ribs standing at the reverse incline from those on the sections ff of the rollers. A space I is left between these heads and the sections ff, which space comes over the dischargeopening c. The object of these independent heads is to oppose the current of syrup passing through the upper chambers and force it back, so that it will discharge through the opening 0, and also to prevent the passage of the syrup outward around the journals of the rollers through the casing, which it tends to. do under the great pressure to which it is subjected. Similar independent heads K K are located at the discharge end of the lower rollers fora similar purpose-Vin, to force the syrup down into the exit-spout d and to prevent the syrup passing through the journal-openings.

m m are the journal-bearings at opposite ends of the machine, each holding the ends of the journals. These bearings are located away from the ends of the case, as shown, so as to leave a clear space between the ends of the case and the bearings, the journals being uncovered in that space. The boxes are provided with oilholes, and beneath the boxes are discharge-passages n 71, extending through the bearings longitudinally, by which means such oil as drips down is discharged at the end. By the means above described no oil is passed inward through the end of the case to come in contact with the syrup.

The machine can be made effective with only one pair of rollers, the case in that instance being single instead of double and the discharge-spout at being placed at the point where the opening o is located.

The flanges by fit- Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'

1. In a syrup-mixing machine, the combination of a pair of spirally-ribbed rollers, provided at intervals with circumferential grooves, and a case containing the rollers provided with flanges resting in the lower part of said grooves and extending but partially around the rollers, leaving the top of the rollers uncovered, as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a syrup-mixing machine, the combination of two pairs of spirally-ribbed rollers provided at intervals with circumferential grooves, and a case containing the rollers, said case provided with a partition separating the pairs of rollers, and with flanges resting in the lower part of the grooves and extending but partially around the rollers, leaving the top of the rollers uncovered, as and for the purpose specified.

3. In a syrup-mixing machine, the combination of a case, a pair of spirally-ribbed rollers resting in the case, and heads at one end of the rollers separated therefrom by an intervening space, said heads provided with spiral ribs standing reversely to those on the rollers, as and for the purpose specified.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN WERNER.

Witnesses:

R. F. Oseoon, L. 0. Dow.

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