US798805A - Apparatus for compressing hams. - Google Patents

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N0. 798,805. PATENTBD SEPT. 5, 1905. H. A: KURLFINKB.

APPARATUS FOR COMPRBSSING HAMS.

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IIICNRY A. IQURIJFINKE, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

APPARATUS FOR COIVIPRESSING HAIVIS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 5, 1905.

Application filed August 3, 1904. Serial No. 219,296.

Be it known that I, llnxnv A. KcnLrINkn, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Compressing l'lams, of which the following is a specilication.

.\Iy invention relates to an apparatus for messing hams or meat into shape before cooking the same, the object of my invention being to provide an apparatus of this character which shall be cheap and simple in construc.

tion and rapidly and easily operated.

;\Iy invention also resides in the novelconstruction, combination, and arrangement of parts for the above ends hereinafter fully specified, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my apparatus. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the jackets detached. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the compressor detached. Figs. A and 5 are perspective views of the traveling nuts for holding the ends of the compressor. Fig. (5 is a detail perspective view of a portion of ajacket. Fig. 7 is a detail sectional view of the same. Fig. 8 is an enlarged broken side view of one of the end stops.

Referring to the drawings, upon any suit able table or frame 1 are secured the heads 2 of the apparatus, in which is journaled a screw 3, having right and left handed screw portions I 5 and operated by means of a hand-wheel 6. Upon said portions 4 and 5 travel the nuts T b, which are prevented rotating by means of a guidebar I), secured between the tops of said heads 2. lly turning the haml-wheel these nuts are caused to travel to or from each other. Upon transverse pins 1011, secured, respectively, to said nuts, are loosely secured the ends of the compressor 12. This compressor is formed of a split strip of metal, the unsplit portion of which passes between the split portions, as shown, and is adapted to surround a jacket 13, which is made of flexible sheet metal, perforated, as shown at 1%,.

and in which the ham or other meat to be compressed is placed. The meat having been placed within the jacket and the jacket having been inserted in place in the loops of the compressor, the hand-wheel is turned to cause the nuts to travel from each other, thereby reducing the diameters of said loops and compressing the jacket with great power. The

' overlapping end '15 of the jacket travels over the under end as the compression takes place and in so doing hooks 16, formed by bending down portions of the upper end of the sheetmetal jacketadjacent to the edges thereof, pass over slots .17, cutnear the edges of the jacket at its under end. These slots have their rear edges beveled, as shown at IS, the better to hold the hooks. Sincethesehookspassovertheseslots in succession as the compression takes place, it results that when the ham has been sufficiently compressed the hooks permanently remain in the farthest slots into which thcyhavc entered and automatically lock the jacket in position around the ham. End stops 19 are now inserted in the ends of the jacket, consisting of wooden disks having sockets 20, in which slide latches 21, pressed out by springs 22, having linger-pieces 23 and stops 2%. The ends of these latches enter the perforations 14., but are prevented protruding therethrough by the stops 2%. The ham is then boiled. After boiling the end stops are removed, the hand-wheel is reversed, the nuts are brought together, loosening the compressor, and the jacket is removed from between the compressor, retaining the ham therein compressed ready for boiling. 'hen the ham has been boiled. it contracts slightly on cooling, so that the books can be withdrawn from the slots and the jacket removed from the ham.

25 represents a counter secured upon the guide-bar 9, having a pin 26 extending therefrom actuated by an upstanding arm 27, mounted upon one of the nuts as it passes in one direction only of said nut, said arm yielding and passing under said pin when the nut moves in the other direction. This furnishes an automatic count of the number of hams compressed.

The double screw being a great multiplier of power, and this again being further multiplcd by the hand-wheel, very great pressure can be applied to the ham without much exertion on the part of the operator.

The jacket and end stops shown herein form no part of my present invention,which is confined to the press.

I claim- 1. In an tlppillttllllS of Y the character described, the combination of a right and left handed screw, nuts traveling thereon, a compressor comprising bands crossing each other, and having their ends secured to said nuts, and means for turning said screw, substantially as described.

scribed, the combination of a compressor comprising bands crossing each other, the bands from one side passing between the bands of the other side of the loop, supports for the ends of said bands, and means for separating said supports, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

H. A. KURLFINKE.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS M. WRIGHT, BESSIE GORFINKEL.-

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