FI117501B - Apparatus for brushing potatoes - Google Patents

Description

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Apparatus for brushing potatoes

Potatoes are one of the most common cooking ingredients 5 used in homes almost daily. Whatever the potatoes are for cooking, they are usually brushed first.

Potato hacking is therefore one of the most important tasks in home kitchens.

Many people find that brushing potatoes with the best commercially available tools today is extremely uncomfortable. Brushing potatoes can even influence the choice of 10 foods to be cooked so that, because of that unpleasant but necessary work, potatoes are often not used in cooking.

The best commercially available tools for brushing potatoes today are brushes or similar brushes These brushes are usually made of plastic 15 and have a handle, handle or similar handle attached to the actual brush part. The bristles are usually quite stiff, approximately straight and even. None of these tools are intended for brushing not only potatoes but also other root and vegetable crops.

However, the use of root brushes and similar brushes for potato hugging involves • »* .; * a few drawbacks. These include that the brush or the like: -is risking, watering, throwing soil, peeling (from new potatoes), etc.

* * * Dirt on the wall, sink, sink, brush for clothes. Mud and dirty water fly ··· ··· * 25 also easily on the brush face, mouth and eyes.

In practice, it often results in some parts of the potato being brushed. ** Many times some parts are not brushed at all. To make sure that • «*. * Potato is well brushed everywhere, it will inevitably be brushed in many places ··· a f · *. * * 30 times. Especially in the case of large quantities of potatoes, brushing takes too long for this ··· · * ··· 'cause.

In order to overcome the above drawbacks, a device was invented for the household to quickly and efficiently brush potatoes almost simultaneously on every 2,117,501 sides and, when brushing indoors, spills of soil and dirt are eliminated.

Making a good, well-detailed prototype at home proved to be somewhat impossible, as it would have required the placement of well-defined bundles of brushes on the inside of the right enclosure, and finding materials of sufficient quality, or even working them into a meaningful prototype. For these reasons, the precise design of the device remains to be determined at a later date.

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Device design

The basic structure of the device is illustrated by way of example in Figure 1.

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The apparatus for shedding potatoes to be presented consists of an opening and closing housing with bristles (1) attached to the inner surface. For the sake of clarity, Figure 1 is marked only with the most visible bristles when the device is open. The size of the casing is slightly larger than a medium-sized potato, after all, the appliance is designed to fit most medium-sized potatoes. The casing halves (2) are »·: cup-shaped, and the apertures (3) on each half are round.

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* * The halves are shaped so that the halves face each other when closed

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The edges of the * 'snap into place without looking. This can be accomplished, for example, such that the mouth of one of the 25 • halves is slightly smaller in diameter than the other, so that when the housing is · · * · * · *, the halves slightly overlap to the overlapping closure.

The purpose is to open and close the case quickly and easily.

999 9 ♦ »··» · * • 9 • · “* Hat bundles are attached to the inside of the casing halves with length, stiffness, * · * * 30 shape, orientation, grouping, etc., precisely defined throughout the operation of the device and« «· • · * ··· * especially for the actual potato hug. The bristles may be e.g.

· »T * in straight or twisted rows from the hemispherical opening toward the bottom, or individually": * 'i planted in bunches, not in rows. Haqasn bunches can be uniform or different in length, equally rigid, or defined in other places more rigid. 117501 may also be present. .

bundles that project in a significantly different direction to nearby bundles. Even in a single bunch, some of the bristles can be shorter than others, even shorter. The stiffness of most bristles may be approximately the same as that of commercially available bristles.

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The actual casing, e.g., its size, and the bristles, on the other hand, are so seamlessly interconnected that they must be taken into account at the same time when designing the optimum device.

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Operation of the device

The operation of the device is outlined, by way of example, in Figures 2-6.

A medium-sized wet potato (1) is placed half inside the second half (2) (Fig. 2), which is closed by a second half (2) into a housing (Fig. 3). Then, with one hand holding one half of the other, with the other hand, the two halves are simultaneously rotated in opposite directions (Fig. 4), and back again (Fig. 5). Occasionally you do not need to remove the hand grip from the device. After rotating once or a few turns 20 times, the housing is opened (Fig. 6), the potato (1) is dropped and a new potato • *:. ·: Can be brushed.

• * * · # * When using the appliance, the potato must be sufficiently misleading. There must be enough bristles, * * they must be sufficiently stiff and of suitable length. The bristles must also be positioned correctly * · · · "j 25. Some lines, bundles, or bundle bristles may be shorter, softer, etc. • · * ··· *.

··· *! ”When a potato is more or less uneven and ♦ · • · 'V irregular in shape, it may occasionally get stuck in the other half. During this kind of jamming, the brushing at the opposite end of the potato is even more effective (it boasts a stronger speed against the bristles than if it were loose at the other end), but the whole • · · : V For potato brushing, ensure that the jam is short-lived. To achieve this, there may be, for example, other, longer, stiffer bristle bumps in different directions which, in the above situations, release the potato. The same effect of Hl 4 117501 can be enhanced, for example, by the fact that the shark rows (if the ridge bundles are placed in rows) are, for example, softer and harder in turn. When the direction of rotation of the halves is changed rapidly and repeatedly, the grips of the sharks on the potato are changed, alternating on both halves, and at least sufficient distribution is assured.

5 As such, getting stuck is not harmful, because brushing one end of the potato is all the more effective, as long as the stings are short-lived and occur in both halves.

It is designed mainly for medium-sized potatoes. From the device's point of view, brushing is very good when brushing 10 large potatoes, but brushing is also effective.

On the other hand, very small potatoes may even spin inside the appliance, but they will probably get enough brewing. The potato that goes inside just the other half is too small. (However, it can be removed by holding the potato with one hand and using only one half. In this case, splashing is not completely prevented.) 15

Brushing potatoes with the featured device is a quick operation. In a home-made prototype, which was purely indicative, it took only a few seconds for the actual hug, a small fraction of the time it takes to use a brush or the like.

2 ° «·: When ease of use is of paramount importance, * 1V · must be realized when closing and opening the housing. The halves must be capable of being properly and easily enclosed in a housing. During spreading, the casing does not need to be pressed, eg j * 1, a good grip is sufficient. The opening of the case must be easy and quick, and the potato must then be easily removed from the case.

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Keep the appliance as clean as possible. This fact has * ;;; for example when placing shark bunches or rows: When cleaning the unit, water, · * · T soil, (new potatoes) bark fragments must escape especially from the deepest inside of the halves · «· V 1 30. The characteristics of bristles, the amount, etc., also affect # ··· '. ·· 1 ease of cleaning.

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The device must be as light and small as possible, in principle suitable for anyone's hands and occasions. The smaller the device, the better it is also suitable for use by children.

5 Once the device has been designed with details in terms of both housing and bristles, it is well suited for industrial use, made of plastic.

The case is possibly quite hard, thin plastic - as thin as it is for attaching sharks and for other reasons.

10 To ensure a good grip of the housing halves, they may have, for example, a roughened area, small grooves, etc. The housing halves may also be connected to each other, e.g., by wire, string, etc. however, there is no obstacle to using the device.

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When the structure of the device, with its details related to the housing and sharks, is designed to optimize the operation of the device, while also taking into account the above, e.g. In addition to the use of pie crusts or the like, the following improvements are achieved with the device: 20-spot blasting as a whole is faster and more efficient than * *: with the pie crest or the like, because potatoes are brushed almost simultaneously from different sides. Achieving the same brushing result with a brush, for example, * takes considerably more time.

- Brushes do not spray dirt, soil, etc., as hugging takes place in a closed ♦ · · * ··; 25 modes. This will also reduce the total amount of work involved in potato brushing • · ****, when shredding eliminates the need to wash the sink, wall, possibly hooker clothes, face and forearms. - If brushing for any ··· ** "reason was desired while keeping the unit under water during brushing, brushing •« • * still succeeds.

Other applications of the invention: · · · · · · · - - a circular device, e.g. for lemons and mandarins. Large round for oranges, 117501 grapefruits and more. - For example, a lemon requires and takes a hard brushing, and the lemons are often quite the same in size.

- possible applications for vegetables.

- soft-shelled application could cut soft-peeled fruits that require gentle handling, eg fresh plums or the like.

- there could be application possibilities for an inventive device quite apart from potatoes. The housing can be shaped for new applications, tear, open at the other ends of the halves, etc. The housing may be soft, compressible, the halves alone can be used, etc. Also the water connection can be designed for 10 device applications, etc.

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Claims (2)

Device for brushing potatoes, characterized in that the device consists of an opening and closable housing, on which the inner surface of which is attached brushes (1), and whose halves (2), when the device is closed, can be rotated in opposite directions and the direction can sometimes change. Device according to claim 1 for brushing potatoes, characterized in that the device is made of plastic. . . ^ i. i! ,