USRE5100E - Improvement in apparatus for preparing the paste for lozenge-cutting machines - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES' PATENT QEEICE.

, WILLIAM E. DAMANT, or WEsr EoBoKEN, NEW JERSEY, AssIGNoE To HIMsELE AND WILLIAM EEssIN.

IMPROVEMENT lN APPARATUS FOR PREPAHING THE PASTE FOR LOZENGE-CUTTING MACHINES.

Speciicaton forming part of Letters Patent No. 113,635, dated April 11, 1871; reissue No. 5,100, dated October 15, 1872.

DIvIsIoN Bf To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that WILLIAM EDWARD DA- MANT, of West. Hoboken, in the county ofv Hudson and State of New Jersey, has invented a new and Improved Machine for Rolling Dough and Paste, of which the following is a specification:

The drawing represents a vertical longitudinal section of the improved machine for rolling dough, paste, &c.

This invention relates to a new machine for llattenin g out the dough and paste used in the manufacture of confectionery, biscuits, Snc., while feeding the same to the apparatus on which such dough or paste is subsequently cut or shaped. The invention consists in the combination, with each other, of two or more pairs of endless aprons, between which the dough is gradually compressed or flattened out to the requisite thinness. The invention also consists in the combination of starch-boxes having perforated bottoms with the above-mentioned aprons, the boxes being secured above the aprons to deposit thin layers of starch or equivalent substance thereon for preventing the adhesion of the dough thereto. y

. S S1 S2 S3 SiIL S5 in the drawing are vthree pairs of endless aprons, arranged parallel to each other, but at different altitudes, on rollers T, whose bearings are in a stationaryr frame, U. One end of the apron S is a short distance above one end of the apron S1, as shown, one end of S'z above that of S3, and one end of S4 above one end of S5, the overlying ends of each pair of aprons being the inner ends or in the inner part' of the frame U, as shown. The space between the aprns S S1 is larger than that between S2 S3, and the latter again larger than the space between S4 S5. An inclined sta-- tionary board or platform, V, extends from the inner end of the apron Sl to the apron S3, one from the inner end of S3 to S5, and one from the end of S5 to a belt or feeding apparatus, G, by which the compressed or flattened dough is finally delivered to the cutting or shaping mechanism. These inclines may, however, be dispensed with if `the aprons are placed so close together that one may discharge directly on the other. Above every one of the aprons is placed a box, WV, which has a perforated or bolting-cloth bottom.

Starch or equivalent subst-ance is put into the boxes WV, and thence gradually deposited u pon the aprons to prevent the adhesion to the latter of the pasteor dough. The paste or dough is fed to thev apronv S, and by the same conveyed under the apron S.- Between rolls T T the paste or dough is compressed into a thinner sheet than that in which it was fed to apron S1. From the apron S1 the paste thus compressed is deposited upon incline V and then on apron S3. It is then still more conlpressed between rolls T1 Tl and deposited upon apron S5. It is finally still more attened between rolls T2 T2 and discharged upon the receiver G. The paste is thus automatically and gradually liattened out into condition for` being cut or shaped.

For many cases two pairs of aprons may answer instead 'of three. r

Ve claim as the invention of WILLIAM ED- WARD'l DAMANT- 1. The combination, with each other, of two or more pairs of aprons, arranged one set above another, and with gradually-diminishin g spaces between every succeeding pair of rolls, substantially as and for vthe purpose herein shown and described.

2. The combination, with subject-matter of rst claim, of the starch-boxes W W, arranged substantially as herein shown and described.

WILLIAM AEDWARD DIAMANT.v VVILLTAM HESSIN.

Witnesses for DAMANI: A. V. BRIEsEN,

T. B. Mos'HEn.

Witnesses for HEssIN:

H. JAMEs, W. H. JEFFREY. K

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