US226096A - Machine for cutting and grating vegetables - Google Patents

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W. MILD. Machine for Cutting and Grating Vegetables.

No. 226,096 Patented Mar. 30, 1880.

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NPETERS. PHOTD-LITHOGRAFHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

NITED STATES WILLIAM MILD, OF HAMILTON, OHIO.

MACHINE FOR CUTTING AND GRATING VEGETABLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,096, dated March 30, 1880.

Application filed November 3, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM MILD, of Hamilton, in the county of Butler and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Outtin g and Grating Vegetables, of which the followingis a specification.

My present invention relates to certain improvements in a machine for cutting and grating vegetables for which Letters Patent No. 220,723 were granted to me October 21, 1879; and it consists in providing on the periphery of the disk carrying the cutters a flange or rim turned inwardly and of suflicient width to form the hub or center for the grater, and in making the grater in disk form, with a flange or rim turned on the periphery to fit over and bind on the flange of the cutter-disk.

This arrangement enables me to vary the rate of grating without changing the speed of the machine by shift-ing the vegetable from the center to the periphery of the disk, or vice versa.

Certain vegetables, to grate well, require a higher speed than others, and this, with my previous machine, could only be obtained by varying the speed of the machine, which, with power-machines, requires expensive gearing or cone-pulleys, all of which are avoided by the present construction.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of my machine, showing the grater in position on the cutter-disk. Fig. 2 is a front elevation thereof with the grater removed, exposing the cutter-disk and knives. Fig. 3 is a side or end elevation of the machine, showing a cabbage-corer attached to the driving-shaft. Fig.4 isa perspective View of the cutter-disk. Fig. 5 shows the furrowing-knife detached. Fig. 6 shows the cabbage-corer. Fig. 7 is a sectional elevation of the cutter-disk, and Fig. 8 asectional elevation of the grater.

A is the stand or frame of the machine, which I make in ornamental style of cast-iron.

On the upper surface of the frame I provide a long box, which is bored for the reception of the driving-shaft b. Upon the back of the frame I cast a boss, which is bored for the reception of the stud 0, upon which turns the spur-wheel E, giving motion to the spur-pinion b, driving-shaft b, and cuttendisk B. B is the cutter-disk, of cast-iron, keyed or otherwise secured to thedriving-shaft. G is a table secured to the ends of the frame by gibs, and capable of being easily removed for changing the machine. D is a guard of cast or sheet iron, secured to the upper side of the frame, to prevent particles of vegetables from flying off at a tangent. F is the furrowingknife, and h the slicing-knife. When the machine is to be used for slicing vegetables, as cabbage, two slicing-knives, as h, are used.

B is the grater, of disk form, perforated on the face and provided with an annular flange or rim to fit over and bind the rim of the cutter-disk B. G is the corer, for removing the centers of the cabbage.

An inclined shelf is provided in the lower part of the frame, upon which the cut or grated vegetables fall, and pass into any convenient receptacle set below.

Although I show and describe a machine to be operated by hand, it is obvious that a pulley can be placed on the driving-shaft and the machine driven by power.

Having described my invention, what I claim is The cutter-disk B, provided with an annular rim turned inwardly, in combination with the flanged grater B, driving-shaft b, and driving-gear E and b, for the purpose and as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 25th day of September, 1879.

WILLIAM MILD.

Witnesses:

J OHN H. HOFFMANN, E. O. MARTIN.

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