US622844A - Robert cosmos ellrich - Google Patents

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No. 622,844.. Patented Apr. H, I899. R. C. ELLRICH.

MEAT 0R VEGETABLE CUTTER.

(Application filed J'gn. 17, 1898.)

(No Model.)

NITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT COSMOS ELLRICH, OF SOUTHINGTON, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE PECK, STOW & IVILCOX COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

MEAT OR VEGETABLE CUTTER,-

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 622,844, dated April 11, 1899.

Application filed January 17, 1898. Serial No. 666,888. (No model.)

' ing said improvement. Fig. 2 is an end view of the delivery end of the same cutter. Fig. 3 is a side view with half of thecutter-case removed. Fig. 4 is an inside view of that half of the cutter-case which is shown in Fig. 8. Fig. 5 is an end View of the delivery end of the rotary screw-forcer.

The object of the improvement is the production of a meat and vegetable cutter adapted for domestic and similar uses, having features of construction and operation hereinafter described and elements inafter claimed.

In the accompanying drawings the letters aand a denote therespective halves of the cutter-case, which may be provided with lon gitudinal ribs a at their meeting edges, held together by and in the embrace of inwardlyfacing grooves in the top and bottom bars I) of the holder 19, which are connected by a curved bracket 1), through which projects a screw 6 bearing against one of said halves for the purpose of pressi ng them adj ustably toward each other. In addition the body of said holder 1) is continued downward below its bracket and preferably carries a clamp (not shown) for engaging the edge of table or other support. The letter 0 designates a perforated plate inserted diaphragmwise in the cutter-case. Its periphery fits in a corre: sponding and cooperating annular groove formed for that purpose on the interior of the parts of the cutter-case. This perforated plate is held stationary against rotation by a pin 0, fast in one-half of the cutter-case and projecting into a mortise made for it in the periphery of the plate. This perforated plate may have perforations through it of any suitable number and shape, and of course the same machine may be furnished with a pluof novelty hererality of plates differing in the number, size, and shape of their perforations. Obviously when the screw 12 is tightened up this plate is firmly clamped within the halves of the cutter-case and the forcer hereinafter described is also bound frictioually more tightly therein.

The letter (Z denotes the main leaf of the rotary screw-forcer. The circular plate (1, appurtenant to and preferably integral with the screw-forcer, closes one end of the cut ter-case and is journaled therein, the other end or shaft of the screw-forcer being journaled in and extending through the perforated plate already mentioned.

The letter e denotes a crank whereby to give rotation to the screw-forcer.

The letter (1 denotes an additional screwleaf of the rotary screw-forcer at the delivery end thereof.

The letter f denotes a cutter located on the shaft against the exterior face of the perforated plate. It is carried by and made to ro tate with the shaft of the screw-forcer.

shaft of the screw-forcer, which holds thescrew-forcer, the cutter f, and the perforated plate in their proper relations to each other when they are duly assembled.

Care should be taken that all edges of the leaves of the screw-forcer are equidistant from the axis-in other words, that the entire screw-forcer is of one diameter throughout.

It will be readily understood that the meat, vegetable, or other material to be operated on is fed into the mouth of the cutter-case. Coming in contact with the screw -forcer, it is forced along toward the delivery end of the cutter and through the perforated plate, there to be operated upon by the cutter f. There are, however, other features of construction and operation not indicated by this general statement just made. The main leaf (1 of the screw-forcer and the additional leaf d are both extended without interrupting their pitch completely to and into contact with the inner side of said perforated plate, and they are there thickened on the edge, as seen (as regards the main leaf) in Fig. 3, such thickening and such extension serving the is forced forward with greater force than theretofore. Still further, the edges of the leaves-of the screw-forcer thickened, as already described, at the delivery end are formed into cutting edges, and in exerting" this function they cooperate with the ribs 0 formed on the inside of the case. As these ribs just mentioned are longitudinal of the case, or at least approximately so, the cutting action of the two parts just mentioned is necessarily a shear cut, and thereby a very effective sort of cut for thepurpose in hand. Still further, the end of the screw-forcer having the additional leaf and constructed as already described, so as to extend to contact with the interior'face of said perforated plate, creates an end for the screw-forcer which is in some large part a solid end, and it is flat. Thereupon the working faces of the two leaves are made to terminate in recesses inthe end of the screw-forcer, as seen in Fig. 5, which by their shape tend to draw the material under operation toward the centerof the perforated plate and to a certain degree counteract the natural tendency of the screW-forcer to crowd the material toward the inner Wall of the cutter-case.

I claim as my improvement 1. In combination, the cutter-case, the persaid case, and the rotary screw-forcer having an additional screw-leaf at the delivery endwith both leaves extended to contact with said perforated flat plate and terminating in recesses in the end of the screw-forcer adapted to draw the material under operation toward the center of said plate, all substantially as described and for the purposes set forth. t

2. In combination, the cutter-case, the perforated flat plate inserted diaphragmwise in said case, the rotary cutter on the exterior face of said plate, and the rotary screW-forcer having an additional screw-leaf at the delivery end-with both leaves extended to contact with said perforated fiat plate and terminating in recesses in the end of the screw-forcer adapted to draw the material under operation toward the center of said plate, all substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.v

ROBERT COSMOS ELLRIOI-l. Witnesses:

STEPHEN WALKLEY, EDWIN N. WALKLEY.

forated fiat plate inserted diaphragmwise in

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