USRE5171E - Improvement in apparatus for preparing the paste for lozenge-cutting machines - Google Patents

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WILLIAM E. DAMANT, OF WEST HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGN TO HIMSELF AND WILLIAM HESSIN, OF TORONTO, CANADA.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR PREPARINGTHE PASTE FOR LOZENGE-CUTTING MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 113,635. dated April 11, 1871; reissue No. 5,100, dated October 15, 1872; reissue No. 5,171, dated December 3, 1872.

DIVISION B.

. &c., 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 starchboxes having perforated bottoms with the above-mentioned aprons, the boxes being secured above the aprons to deposit thin layers of starch or equivalent substances thereon for preventing the adhesion of the dough thereto.

A, A, A ,"A*, A and A in the drawing are three pairs of endless aprons, arranged parallel to each other, but at difl'erent altitudes, on' rollers a. a, 850., whose bearings are in a stationary frame, B. One end of the apron A is a short distance above one end of the apron A, as shown; so is also one end of A above A", and one end of A above one end of A ,the overlying ends of each pair of aprons being the inner ends, or in the inner part of the frame B, as shown. The space between the aprons A and A is larger than that between A and A, and this again larger than the space between A and A An inclined stationary board or platform, 1), extends from the inner end of the apron A to the apron A"; likewise one from the inner end of A to A, and also one from the end of A to a .belt or feeding apparatus, 0, by which the compressed or flattened dough is finally delivered to the cutting or shaping mechanism. These inclines b b may, however, be dispensed with if the aprons A and A, and A and A, and A and O are placed so close together that one 'may discharge directly to the other. Above every one of the aprons A to A is placed a box, D, which has a perforated or bolting.

clothbottom, d, the bottom being close above the upper surface of each respective apron.

Starch'or equivalent substance is put into the box D, and thence gradually deposited upon the aprons to prevent the adhesion to the latter of the paste or dough. The paste is fedto the apron A and by the same conveyed in the direction of the arrow under the apron A. Between A and A the paste is compressed into a thinner sheet than that in which it was fed to A From the apron A the paste thus compressed is deposited upon A, and still more compressed under A then do posited upon A more flattened yet under A, and finally discharged upon the receiver 0. The paste is thus automatically and gradually flattened out into condition for being cut or shaped. For many cases two pairs of aprons may answer instead of three.

Claims.

1. The combination with each other of two or more pairs of aprons, arranged one set above another, and with gradually diminishing spaces between every succeding pair of rolls, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described.

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

WILLIAM EDWARD DAMANT.

\VILLIAM HESSIN. Witnesses for DAMANT:

A. V. BRIESEN,

T. B. MOSHER. Witnesses for HESSIN:

W. H. JEFFERY,

W. H. MAY.

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