US815811A - Candy-spinner. - Google Patents

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PATENTED-MAR. 20;"190e. -w. H. GOODMAN.

CANDY SPINNER. AYPLIO ATION'II-LEDJJULY 11, 1905. v

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CANDYESYPINN EFR.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed. July 11, 1905'. Serial No. 269,227.

WILLIAM H. GOODMAN, or KNOXVILLE; TENNESSEE. ASSIGNOR or ONE,

THIRD To HU. WOODWARD, or KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE.

T on whom it may concern):

. Be it known that I, WILLIAM H.Goo1)MA a citizen of the United States, residing at Knoxville, in the county of Knox and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Candy-Spinners, of which the 'followin is a specification.

' My lnvention re atesto anirn'provement in candy-spinners. p

In many of the machines hitherto employed for spinning candy metallic wheels were used; but the objection to metallic wheels or rolls is that the metal becomes easily heated,wliich causes the candy to adhere to this difficulty,

the face of the metal, causing delay and inconvenience.

object of my invention is to obviate and this is accomplished by the use of wheels or rolls composed of a partly or slightly vulcanized rubber or equivalent material interposed between brass .or metallic plates or disks, said intermediate portion having a semicircular circumferential groove orconcavity, so that a complete circle is made by the contact of themetallic rims of the wheels or rolls, which contact is regulated by means oftension or set screws, the contact of the rims closing the circular orifice and preventing the adhesion of candy to the same.

. My invention further consists in means for spinning candy into round sticks from the plastic mass and in certain-other novel features of construction and combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the'acco'mpanying drawings, Figure 1 is a'view in side elevation. Fig. 2 is an en'd view, and Fig. 3 is a section in detail. A A represent two 11 rights, which constitute the framework of t e machine. The numerals 1 and 2 are used to designate two shafts journaled in boxes 3 3 and 4 4, re-

spectively, adjustably, supported in the uprights, as shown in Fig. 1. These journalvboxes may be cast ormade separate of brass or other material and held in place by grooves onset-screws. Interposed between the journal-boxes are the s regulate the pressure on t e shafts, and; the tension of these springs is regulated by the set-screws'6 6.-

' Wheels or rolls are keyed or otherwise se-.

' cured to the two shafts. These'wheels or rolls are composed ofja center 7 of artly or slightly vulcanized rubber or com ination iral springs 5 5 to of rubber, wood, or other non 4 conducting material which will preclude the adhesion of candy. The peripheries of these center disks are grooved circumferentially,so that at the point of contact a circle is preferably formed, as shown in Fig. 2. Brass plates or disks 8 8 aresecure'd to theends of the center disks'by bolts 9 9 or other means, and an orifice through the center of each wheel or rollthus formed is provided to receive a shaft upon which the roll or wheel is mounted, the latter being held thereon by keys driven into the grooves 10 10 or other means.

Gear-wheels 11 11 are keyed tothe shafts and intergeared, whereby motion is communicated from one shaft to the other in the opposite direction. A belt-wheel 12 is secured to one'of the shafts to receive a belt '(not' shown) if the machine is to be driven from an be secured to this shaft as ameans for operating the machine'by hand-power.

n connection'with the machine just described a feeding device may be used, if desired, although this is not shown. Likewise two additional wheels or rollers might be employed to run at right angles with the other two rollers, they being groovedinthe same manner.

From the foregoing it will be seen that a simple machine is provided for spinning round stick candy and at the same time one which will preventadhesion of the plastic mass to the parts of the machine.

- Slight changes might be resorted to in the form .and arrangement of the several parts described without departing from the s 'irit and scope of my invention, and hence do not wish to limit myself to the exact construction herein set forth; but, g

' Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A wheel or roll for candy-spinners comprising a center of elastic yielding material to which the candy will not adhere, and ends for laterally supporting the elastic center;

2. The combination with a frame, journalboxes, shafts journaled therein, and tension means, of wheels or rolls secured to the shafts, the centers of the wheels 01' rolls composed of Patented March 20, 190

engine or motor, and a hand-crank may also elastic yielding material circumferentially grooved. 3. The combination With a suitable frame,

shafts journaled therein, and rollers secured 3 will not adhere, end plates or disks, said disks to the shafts, the centers of said rollers coml or centers secured together and s )rings to posed of partly or slightly vulcanized rubber regulate the pressure on the shafts 0 the rolls,

circumferentially grooved, and end plates or and set-screws for regulating the tension of 15 5 disks secured thereto, and mounted on the l the springs.

shafts. In testimony whereof I aflix my signature 4. The combination with a suitable frame, in presence of two witnesses. shafts journaled therein and rollers secured WILLIAM H. GOODMAN. to the shafts, said rollers composed of cir- Witnesses: 1o cumferentially grooved centers of partly or Ms. C. WOODWARD,

slightly vulcanized rubber to which candy W. B. HENDERsoN.

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