US151554A - Improvement in chopping-blocks - Google Patents

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H. ANDERSON;

Mapping-Blocks. v, N0 ]5],554. -Pa-tentedlune 2,1874.

UNITED STATES PA'rEN'r` OFFICE.

HENRY ANDERSON, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHOPPING-BLOCKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 151,554, dated June 2, 1874; application filed July 2, 1873.

tightening-baml, and made to tit onto a table,

consisting ot' a metallic plate provided with sockets, into which wooden legs are secured, the whole forming an adjustable block, on

which meat, &c., can be cut, as a substitute for ordinary butcher, kitchen, or other blocks, wherein no mechanical attachments for chopping purposes are employed.

Figure l is a perspective view of a chopping-block embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the central line of the top part of Fig. l, showing how the pieces of woodconstituting the block are doweled together, as well as the plate provided with sockets forming part ofthe table. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of three rectangularlyshaped pieces ot' wood, partly detached, such as may be employed for the construction of these adjustable chopping-blocks. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of angular pieces of wood for making square or rectangular blocks, partly detached, as in Fin: 3.

A A is the block, which may be round, square, rectangular, or of any suitable shape, and consists or is built up of several pieces oi' hard wood, a a, shaped perfectly true, so as to it closely to one another, and be placed together in such manner as to expose a level face across their grain, with a hard surface for 4chopping purposes. Near the bottom, or at about onequarter of their height from the bottom, holes are pierced in every fitting side of each of these small pieces or blocks, so that they may be doweled to one another by means of small wooden pegs b, after the usual manner adopted in the doweling of pieces of wood together,

and this block A A, when composed of several such doweled smaller blocks a, each dependent on and supporting its neighbor, forms, when bound together, a slab resembling` a single solid piece. In order to bind these doweled pieces a together, a band or strap, B, is provided tothe shape of the block A A, and tits into an outer circumscribed groove, the pieces a being pressed together by a screw, s, made to draw the lugs l lof this band B nearer each other, till the block A A presents alevel surface, free from cracks or openings at the top. The block thus bound together has another encompassing groove made at the bottom, so as to allow ot' its tting into the table or stand T, especially prepared to receive it. rlhis table T consists of a iiat plate ot' metal, p p, for the block A A to rest on, a rim, r, to tit the groove last mentioned, and, beneath, four sockets, S S, with tapering holes h h, prepared for the wooden legs L L. These legs L L are secured by means oi" small pins c, that it into holes provided in the sockets, but only catch in notches formed on one side of the legs, and t'or further stability small screws a a fasten the block A A to the rim i of the plate p p.

By this arrangement of a composite chopping-block the several pieces a, as they are worn, can be removed, and fresh ones, according to their numbered size, substituted. Bad meat, also, cannot collect in any cracks in the surfaceiof the block, or in the grooves between the rim r or band B, the former of which is very liable to occur in ordinary butchers blocks, which crack from shrinkage.

WV hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

rlhe chopping-block A A, composed of severa-l smaller pieces, a a a, doweled to one another in the manner described, in combination with a tightening-band, B, and metallic table T, provided with rim r, sockets s s, and legs L L, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.

Witnesses: HENRY ANDERSON.

ALFRED C. CRANE, LIONEL VARroAs.

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