US810193A - Soap-molding machine. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED JAN. 16, 1906.

F. DAUM. SOAP MOLDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION IILED JUNE 4. 1904.

'2 SHEETS-SEBBT 1.

[UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

I Patented Jan. 16,1906. I

. Application filed June 4,1904. Serial No. 211,081.

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, FELIX DAUM, chemist,-

residin at 46, Kaiserstrasse, Mainz, in the Grand uchy di Hesse, Germany, have in vented new and useful Im rovements in Soap-Molding Machines, of W 'ch the followin is a specification.

his invention relates to a soap-molding machine, and has for its object to charge the liquid soap into molds to cool the same and to effect its solidification, the bars or cakes of soap thus produced being then removed either by hand or otherwise. The machine is so arranged as to be capable of continuous working.

The machine consists for this purpose of a hollow rotating drum suitabl made of sheetiron, on the periphery of w 'ch areformed "box-like recesses, the ,size and configuration of which correspond to the desired form of the soap-bars or tablets to be produced. The

- interior of the drum is cooled by means of bottoms, to which are attached rods extendt e mo ds of the drum are open at t water, cold air, carbon dioxid, or the like, and the drum is made to revolve partly withinan external coolin -jacket. The liquid soa passes from a ta arran edv onthe top of till they pass round underneath, and as the drum travels round the soap-is solidified by the coolin action, so that the formed bars or tablets w' 1 either drop out of themselves at that part of the machine where the drum is not inclosed in the jacket or they are removed by hand or by-'mechanical means. For removing the bars or tablets mechanically the molds may be provided with movable ing into the drum, where they are. acted upon by a fixed cam or the like, so as to push the .bottoms outward, and :thus force the bars or tablets out of the molds. The mechanical e'ectin in which case the still liquid soap is prevented from runnin out b means of metal plates a ainst which t e en s of the drum revolve. -T ese lates have openings at a suitable oint, t ough which a plug, moved'either by' and or mechamcall is made to enter the mold, so as to eject t e solidified bars or tablets irom the same.

On the accompanying drawings is shown a soap-niolding machine constructed according to my invention.

e drum into the molds o the latter asdevice can also be so' arranged that asides,

Figure 1 shows a longitudinal section of the machine on line 1 1, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a section online 2 2, Fig.1. Fig. 3 is a side View, part1 in section, of a modified construction o the machine with a mechanical a is the hollow drum, in the 'peripherv of whichai'e formed the recesses 12, constituting molds for receiving theliquid soap. The inter-ior c of the drum and the sides and bottoms ofthe molds are cooled by means of water, cold air, carbon dioxid, or the like, which may be suitably supplied through the hollow shaft (1 and branch tubes 0, Fig; 2. The greater part of the drum (L outside the tanki is surro'undedby a cooling-j acket f, to which water or other cooling medium is supplied through the pipe 9 and whence it is discharged through the pipe h. Above the drum is arranged the tank i for the liquid soap. From this tank the liquid soap flows into the moldsas they ass under it, and it then solidifies as the mo ds pass round to the uncovered part of thedrum, where the bars or tablets either fallonto a table or they are According to the.

.3. the

molds b-are provided with piston-1i e bottoms it, having rods Z, that extend inward in the drum. Each mold is preferably rovided with two rods, one at each end. T ese rods slide in contact with a fixed cam or cams m of such ashape that the bottoms 7c remain in position at the inner'ends of the molds during the greater ortion of a revolution, but are protruded w en the molds arrive at the part where the drum is uncovered, so that .the soap bars or tablets are ejected at that point.

In the arrangement at Fig. 4 the molds b are open at the-ends. The liquidsoap is prevented from running out by means of fixed platesn at the ends of the drum, between which the latter revolvesl At a suitable point the lates n have openings 0, through which, a p ug p can enter the molds at one plug 72 is guided in arms 9 on the framing of w the machine and is either actuated by hand or by any suitable mechanical devices.

. Now What I claim, anddesir'e to secure by V Letters Patent, is the following:

1. In a machine for effecting the solidification of lieuid soap in molds the combination of a revo ving drum with recesses formed at v the periphery thereof and constituting molds for the soap, a tank for receiving the liquid soa and supplyingit to the molds, a jacket inc uding the tank, artially surrounding the drum, and means or cooling the sides and bottoms of the molds-during -2. In a machine for efie'cting the solidification of li uid soap in molds the combination of a revo ving drum with recesses formed at the periphery thereof and constituting molds for the soap, a tank for receiving the li uid soap and supplying it to the molds as t ey pass under it, a jacket .including the tank,

" partiallysurrounding the drum, and means or cooling the sides and bottoms of the molds during their revolution, substantially as described.

3. In a machine for effecting the solidification of li uid soap inmoldsthe combination their revolu tion, substantially as described.

molds applied to the interior and exterior of the drum, substantiallyas described.

4. In a machine for effecting the solidifica inc uding the tank, partially surrounding the drum, means for'cooling the sides-and bottoms .of the molds during their revolution,

and means for mechanically removing the solidified soap from the machine, substanv tially as described.

5. In a machine for effecting the solidification of H uid soap in molds the combination of a revo ving drum with recesses formed at the periphery thereof and constituting molds for the soap, a tank for receivin' the li uid soap and supplying it to the mo ds as t ey pass under it, a cooling device for the molds applied to the interior of the drum, and a cooling-jacket arranged around the drum and open at one side for the purpose .of removing the solidified soap, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' FELIX DAUM. Witnesses:

GEORG PFEU'FFER, LUDWIG WIRTH.

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