US332908A

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Publication number: US332908A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-12-22
Anticipated expiration: 1902-12-22

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(ModeL) F. C. 8v H. KESSLER.

VEGETABLE GRATER. No. 332,908. Patented Dec. 22, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK O. KESSLER AND HENRY KESSLER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

VEGETABLE-G RATE R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 332,908 dated December 22, 1885.

Application filed May 22, 1884. Serial No. 132,481.

To'all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, FREDERICK O. KESSLER and HENRY KEssLER, citizens of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the county of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Vegetable- Graters, of which the following is a specification.

The object of our invention is to provide a practical, durable, and yet simple and handsome frame for graters which would make iteasy to secure a new blank to the same frame when one (blank) is worn out. We attain this object by a frame constructed as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a 'plan view of the frame without a blank thereon; Fig. II, a top view of the main or middle part Of the frame; Fig. III, a perspective View of a blank; Fig. IV. a crosssection through the line a a of Fig. III.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The frame A, Fig. I, is cast out of malleable iron or any other suitable metal or composition of metals. (We prefer iron.) The casting may be executed in one piece; but success is surer if the head 0, main body A, and foot D are molded and cast separately, in which case the main body A must'have projections, as shown in Fig. II, for the purpose of being riveted or soldered to the head 0 and the foot (Instead of the main body, the head and foot could have the projections; but in that case the rivets would be seen in the main body.) The frame may be either tinned, japanned, or galvanized, to prevent rusting and make it look well. The form of the frame may be any convenient one. WVe prefer the fish form, for it affords suitable room for ribs to strengthen the frame, as shown at a. The outer edges of the main part of the frame are (Model.

a little higher than the inner edges, to afford a bearing to the blank B. Near each end of the side pieces, A, is a notch, n,in order to receive the wires m m, by which the blank B, Fig. III, is secured to the frame A, Fig. I. These wires are flexible and longer than the blank is wide, (see Fig. III, m,) so that the projecting parts can be easily wound around the frame, as shownin Fig. III. This affords the advantage that any personeven a childcan take off the blank, if it is worn out, and put on a new one.

Though we could effect the securing of the blank to the frame in various other ways, we prefer this one as cheap and practical. These wires are secured to two opposite ends of the blank by rolling up or bending the ends of the tin (the ends of the blank) around them. The grater (frame and blank) could be flat; but We prefer it curved, as stronger and more practical.

We are aware that vegetable-graters have been made and used prior to our invention. Therefore we do not claim, broadly, the vegetable-grater; but

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The vegetable-grater herein described, consisting of the frame A, having notchesn on its sides, near the ends, in combination with the graterplate B, having its side edges lapped and its upper and lower edges rolled to receive the wires m, which Wires are bent around the frame in the notches to hold the plate to the frame, substantially as set forth.

FREDERICK o. KESSLER. HENRY KE-SSLER.

Witnesses:

WM. QUELLMALZ, FRED STEINWASSEO.