US102934A - Improved fork for feach-farers - Google Patents

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D. n. eooDELL, or 'A NTRIM N'nW-'Haiiirs'ninn v Leners Manilva. 102,934, man May 10,1870.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same lo all fwhomtt may concern:

`Be it known that I, D. H. GOODELL, of Antrim, in

4the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, yhzwe'inventedan Improvement in Peach-Parels and I do hereby declare that `the following, takenK in` connection with the drawings which accompany and form part of this spcciicatiom is .adescriptiou of my invention sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to practice. it.

My invention has reference-to the construction of;

, the peach-holding fork of a peach-paring machine.

' In apple-paring machines the fork is generallymadc tlneep`ronged,'and the apple is pressed upon the fork regardless of any particular presentation of the apple, so long as the fork is carried centrally through'tlie core', there being nothing to interfere with the entrance ofthe prongs.l

With peaches, however, the sa-me construction will i not answer, because the prong points bring up against and are stopped by-the'peach-stone.

It is necessary, therefore, to spread the prongs far enough apart to straddle the stone or embrace it between them; buta three-pronged fork is not practicable for this purpose, anda two-pronged fork -has been made, having a groove in the inner face of each prong,I

the opposite edges orA sharp corners'of the stone slipping iixto these grooves, and thus holding the peach se-` curely during the paringoperation.

Now ythis construction is ecient in holding the peach when the edges of the peach-stone fit 'into the forked grooves; but, if the peach-stone is too large or too small for the fork, or if the prong-grooves fail to slip over the edges, (and this they are very aptto do,) the peach will not be securely held.

4 Lhe object of my invention is to so construct a fork as 4to insure its taking hold of and tightlyembracing the stone, and this I accomplish by using-a fourpronged fork, between which the stone cannot failto enter andbe held; and y H My 'invention consists in combining, with a paring mechanism, afour-pronged fork, for the better adaptation of the machine to the paring of peaches.

lhe drawing represents a fruit-paring machine embo ying my improvement.

shows a plan of the machine.-

B, a side View, and

C, an en d view ofthe fork grasping'a peach-'stone.- y .a denotes the stationary gear-plate, having a segmental gear, b, into which meshes apinion, c, on a' shaft carrying a gear, (l, which meshes into and drives a pinion, c, on the fork-shaft c, the rotation of pinion c being effected by horizontal reciprocating movement ofthe handle f.my

G denotes the paring-knife, fixed upon a suitable knife-rod, and held up to the surface of the fruit by a suitable spring.l All'theseparts are shown arranged like the corresponding parts in a `common and Wellknown parer, or may be relatively arranged in any other suitable manner, and need not be further described. i

h denotes the fruit-holding fork, consisting of four prongs, i, preferably placed equidistant each from the adjacent prongs, and flaring slightly, if desirable,

Now, as the depressed line upon the surface of a peach indicates' the line of the sharp corner or edge of the peach, (the two being in the same plane,) it will readily be seen that in pressing a peach upon the fork it can always be so guided `that the stone cannot fail to enter the fork between the prongs, as seen at B and U, or with two prongs straddl'ing one edge of the peach, and the opposite two the opposite edge, cach two being equidistant from the edge between them, (the stone being thereby rmly grasped,) and of course securely holding the rotating peach under the pressing and cntting action of the knife; and it will be obvious that such a disposition of the forks affords the only practical construction for peach-paring, as no arrangement of three or two forks can be depended upon-to thus clasp or grasp the stone.

The spring forks or wires, it will be seen,v are ini serted .in the stock so as to be near toeachothcr;

they are then spread out from and near the stock,

shown, and then for the rest oftheirlengths are strai gh t, and'parallel, ornearly so, with each other.l VBy means of this construct-ion, andthe use of four such prongs,

each so bent, the peach-stone is not only firmly heldA at fourpoints, but the bent portions also hold it steadily at its curved end and the device is equallyapplicablc, by reason of having the straight parts of the-fork, for use in paring other fr'uit which is stoneless, as thc straight prongs do not, like those which are curved c from'end to end, cut and destroy the fruit whilst being inserted in and withdrawn from it.

I claim a fork, having four separate spring prongs, which vspread out from and near the stock, andare then straight, or nearly so, as shown and described.

Y D. H. G OODELL.

Witnesses:

` J. B. CROSBY,l

FRANCIS GoULn.

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