Improvements in soap presses / [Gustav Adolf Klumpp].

  • Klumpp, Gustav Adolf.
Date:
1901
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Improvements in soap presses / [Gustav Adolf Klumpp]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    N° 12,257 A.D. 1901 Date of Application, 15th June, 1901—Accepted, 20th July, 1901 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. “ Improvements in Soap Presses I, Gustav Adolf Klumpp, of 6 Klusestrasse, Lippstadt, in tlie Empire of Germany, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to he particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement: — 5 The cooling of liquid masses of soap has hitherto been performed in open boxes, so that soap slabs were formed which were cut after cooling into suitable tablets, bars and pieces. The process hitherto employed had several drawbacks, the principal of which was that the cooling or hardening of the soap mass occupied a very long time, 10 for instance from 8 to 14 days. A second great drawback was that in consequence of this slow cooling an unequal contraction of the soap mass took place, so that in cutting up the cooled soap blocks a great quantity of waste resulted, which had to be again dealt with as raw material. This invention has for its object a chilled soap press which avoids these draw- 15 backs by the liquid soap mass being rapidly cooled down to flat slabs in the chilled moulding boxes under pressure, the weight of the soap slabs being capable of being suitably regulated by an adjustment of the upper plate of the moulding box relatively to the under plate of the same, and which slabs leave no waste when cut up, as any contraction of the cooling soap mass is avoided by 20 the firm pressure of the upper plate of the moulding box which is capable of regulation. A cooled soap press of this kind is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which, Eig. 1 is an elevation partially in vertical section; 25 Eig. 2 the upper plate of the moulding box seen from beneath; and Fig. 3 is a view of the same seen from above. A hollow under plate a is arranged on the frame of the press as a base for the fixed moulding frame g, which hollow under plate is provided in any suitable manner with an inlet aperture and also an outlet for the cooling water. 30 The upper plate h of the box is for the same object also hollow and has a water inlet nozzle c and a water outlet. This upper plate fits exactly in the moulding box frame g and is guided on the columns f of the frame of the press by means of lateral lugs or rings e. The upper plate h forms with the moulding box frame g and the under plate a a moulding chamber, the height of which may 35 be suitably regulated by an optional adjustment of the upper plate to the under plate within certain limits, so that thus also the quantity and weight of the slabs of soap to be formed may be exactly determined. The adjustment of the upper plate b is effected by means of a pressure spindle h, which is for this object provided at its upper end with a hand wheel i and is adapted to be screwed up 40 and down in a cross bar or stretcher h of the frame. As shown in Eig. 1 the feed hopper l is preferably so arranged that the soap mass flows into the moulding box by its own weight as soon as a valve or slide which closes the inlet aperture is opened by any suitable means at the [Price Sd.~]