US106350A - Improvement in raisin-seeder - Google Patents

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H. G. PISKE. RAISIN SEEDER.

Patented Aug. 16, 1870.

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HEN RY G. FISKE, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNO-R TO GEORGE L. TAYLOR AND DWIGHT'HOLLAND, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 106,350, dated Augustlti, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN RAISIN-SBEDER The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent 'and making-part ol the lam I, HENRY G. FISKE, of Springfield, Hampden county, Massachusetts, have {nvented an Improved Raisin-Seeder, of which the 'ollowiug is a practical description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, wherem-- Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of my invention Figure 2, a plan of the flame, all other parts being detached therefrom; and

, Figure 3, a .plan of the bed, the same being detached from the flame. and showing the elastic clear ers.

My invention consists- Fi|st,-in combining agangof needles or pointed bodies with a. set of elastic cleareis, the latter being so arranged and connected with the bed that, it a raisin he placed on such bed, the sharp ends of the needles may,by a single motion, be forced through such aisin, carrying the seeds therefrom, on t-heir'points, below the clearers, to be thence removed by such clearers on withdrawing the needles; and

Second, in the particular device, hercin set forth, for eflecting the combination of such needles and clearers, the object thereofbeing to provide simple and eflicient means for removing the seeds from raisins or other similar fruit.

In the accompanying drawing,

The part marked A represents the frame of my device, provided at the base with a recess, B, and thumbserew, G, for attaching the same to a table or other relatively stationary body.

D D are eyes, through which plays the spindle-E. Projecting from such spindle is ahead, F, provided with agang of closelyamanged needles, G.

H is apertoratcd aim of frame A, and serves as a shield to the needle-points when at rest, and as a clearer .to remove the raisin from the needlesat their backward stroke.

1 is the bed, perforated for the passage of the peedies, and attached to the frame A a little below the arm H. v

M M are the elastic clearers, formed-of small coiled wires, and so attached to the bed I as to leave the ends of such wiles projecting convergently across the perforation of such bed.

N is a spiral spring, surrounding spindle E, and serving to raise the same assoon as depressing power is removed therefrom. I j

0 is a flange projecting from spindle E, and prevents such spindles turning in the eyes D D.

P is the knob on top of spindle .E,,to which the band is applied to depress the needles.

The. device is operated by placing a raisin on the bed I, and depressing the needles G once or more, as-

maybe found necessary for completelyrelnoving the seeds.

It is obvious that the elastic clearers'need not be of the precise form or arrangement herein pointed out, but that they are the same in. principle, and equally of my invention, so long as they allow the passage of a gang of needles carrying the raisin-seeds on their points, to be thence removed on withdrawing the needles; and, further, that any convenient spring maybe used instead of spiral N; that-spindie E may be kept from turning by making the same square or otherwise angular; and that, by lengthening frame A',

the needles G may be brought directly under and in line with spindle E.

Thus, having described my'improved' raisin-seeder, What I claim as my invention is- 1. lhegang of. needles'G, in combination with the elastic clearers M M, substantially as specified. p

2. The frame A, spindle E, needles G, bed I,cicarers M M, and spring N, all arraiiged, combined, and

operating substantially as herein specified. HENRY G. FISKE. Witnesses:

SIDNEY SANDERS, E. H. Ewsnn.

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