US711908A - Cheese-knife. - Google Patents

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Patented Oct. 2|, |902. M. W. MIRACLE.

CHEESE KNIFE.

(Application filed Feb. 11. 1902.)

2 Sheets-Sheet L No. 7ll,908.

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M. W. MIRACLE.

cHEEsE KNIFE.

(Applicationled Feb. 11, 1902.)

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UNITED STATES MERIDITH IV. MIRACLE, OF SPRINGD'ALE, ARKANSAS.

CHEESE-KNIFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part-of Letters Patent No. 711,908, dated October 2l, 1902.

Application led February 11,1902. Serial No. 93,500. (No model-l I To all whom, it may concern.:

Be it known that I, MERIDITH W. MIRACLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springdale, in the county ofVVashington and State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cheese-Knives, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to cheese-knives; and it consists in a circular disk, posts extending upwardly from the periphery of said base, a circular top secured on the upper ends of said posts, a stationary half-circle gauze side wall, a half-circle gauze sliding door or wall, a rotary table journaled on said base, a hinged knife, and a measuring device. g

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of my invention with the door thrown back, thus exposing the knife and measuring device to view. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional View at right angles (line X X) to the View shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a crosssectional view of my invention cuton the line Y Y of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the knife. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the measuring device.

My invention is described as follows:

1 is a circular disk, as shown in Fig. 2. It is not shown in Fig. l, because it is hidden from view by a strip 2, which covers it. Eccentrically situated in the said base 1, but not far from the center, is a bearing 3, sunk some distance in said base, but extending above the face thereof, and pivoted on said bearing is a circular disk 4. Said disk has an opening 5 countersunk in its bottom face, so that it may revolve on the bearing 3, and running entirelythrough the center of said disk is a perforation 6,`concentric with the larger countersunk part, and through this perforation 6 is the lower end of a standard 7, which standard has its bearing in the bearing 3. Said standard is slotted from very near its upper end to very near its lower end.k This slot I have numbered 8.

Journaled in the upper face of the base l are four or more rollers 9 for the rotary disk 4 to revolve on. This rotary disk is forthe purpose of holding a cake of cheese and has extending in a straight line from its center a row of pins 10 to keep the cake of cheese in place.

Secured to the periphery of the base 1 are Vdown until its lower end is socketed in the bearing 3. In order to hold the said post in the said opening 13 and at the same time to allow it to move up and down, a wire 14. is

vpassed through said slot, and each end of said ywire is secured to the upper face of the cover `12. By this means this said post can be moved up until the lower end of the slot isagainst the wire 14, and then it is out of the way, so that a cheese-cake may be slipped in and placed on the circular disk and pressed down until the pins 10 take hold; but before the cake is put in place a hole is made through its center for the said post 7 to pass through, and thus when the said cake of cheese is in place the said disk may be revolved, and thus the cheese-cake is also revolved.

The post 20, or that post which is at the right-hand side of the drawings, Fig. l, is slotted from its outer face inwardly and from its bottom to its top, and running through this slot and working up and down in the same is the cheese-knife 15.

Near the center of and to the under face of the cover is secured a bracket 16,' and hinged in this bracket is an arm 17. The lower end of this arm is perforated and by Vmeans of said perforation is pivoted to the said knife 15, through a perforation 18, near its front end, thus enablingthe knife to move backward and forward andin such movement up and down, and thus the cheese-cake is not cut by a direct downwardmovement, but by a thrust and sliding movement, thus minimizing the danger of crumbling the cheese.

Situated on the inside of the case is another post 19 in line with the post 20, and secured to these posts 19 and 2O is a beam 21, about equidistant from the top and bottom of the case and vertically slottedback to and slightly beyond the central post 7, and the knife 15 works in this slot land also in the slot of the post 20 and inthe slot of the post 7.

In the front face of the cross-beam 21 is a depression 22, and in this depression Works IOO a plate 23, and to this plate is secured a circular slotted bar 24 partaking of the circle of the cheese-cake, and adjustably secured to said bar 24 are measuring points or pointers 25, so that I can adjust the cheese by turning the rotary7 disk and measure off by means of these pointers any sized slice I may desire. These pointers may be so adjusted as to indicate one ounce, one-half pound, one pound, and so on.

Running around the entire peripheries of the base and cover is a strip of sheet metal 26, and secured to the outer face of this strip of metal is a Wall of gauze 26', extending from the top to the bottom of the case halfway around, reaching from the two posts ll. Two circular frames 27, one at the bottom and the other at the top, reach half-way around the circle and are secured together by end posts 28 and middle posts 29,' and to the outer faces of these two circular frames is secured another gauze wall 30, Which works against the inner face of the said strip of metal 26. This second last-described frame and gauze wall is the door, and when I wish to put in the cake of cheese or take it out I slip the door half-way around to the rear, leaving the entire front of the ease open. Extending from the bottom disk to the cover is another post 3l, to more firmly unite the two parts l and l2.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A cheese case and knife, consisting of a base; posts running up from said base; atop secured on said posts; bands running around the peripheries of said top and bottom and secured thereto; a one-half wall of gauzewire,its top secured to the outer faces of said bands, and its edges to opposite posts; two semicircular frames, one working on the base, and the other against the cover, posts connecting the frames; a wire-gauze Wall secured at its top and bottom to said one-half circular frames, its edges to opposite posts; said wall completing the entire wall of gauze; a bearing situated in the base near its center; a circular disk, having in its bottom, a counter- ,sunk opening, fitting over said bearing and revolving on the same; casters secured on the said base; a line of pins extending from the center to the circumference on the top of said disk; two bearing-posts situated each near the circumference of the top and bottom, one being vertically slotted; a beam secured to said bearingposts, having a longitudinal vertical slot, running more than one-half its length, and an opening immediately over the opening in the bearing in the base; a vertically-slotted standard passing down through an opening in the top and through the opening in the last-mentioned beam, into the bear ing situated on the base; a bearing depending'from the top, and immediately over the slot of the iastmentioned beam; a knife working through the slot of one of the bearingposts, through the longitudinal vertical slot in the bar, and through the slot in the central pin; an arm pivoted to the last-mentioned bearing and to the forward end of the knife; a plate adjustably secured in a depression in the side of said longitudinally vertically slotted beam; a slotted circular bar secured to said plate; pointers adjustably secured to said bar, and a handle secured to the outer end of said knife, substantially as shown and described and for the purposes set forth.

2. A cheese case and knife, consisting of a base l; a bearing 3, sunk in the base, not far from its center; a circular disk 1, journaled on said bearing, and having in its center a perforation 6; casters 9, secured in the upper face of said base; pins lO, secured to the upper face of said disk; a bearing-post 19, situated near the periphery of said base; a slotted post 20, situated near the periphery of said base, and immediately opposite post 19; a beam 2l, secured one end to the post 19, and the other to the slotted post 20; said beam having in its center a vertical perforation, in one side a longitudinal depression 22, and in one end, and for more than one-half its length a longitudinal vertical slot l5; a vertically-slotted standard 7, passing down through a perforation in the top l2, the perforation in the beam 2l, its lower end journaled in the bearing 3; a cover 12, situated on the top of the said posts 19 and 20, and posts ll; posts ll, extending from the base to the cover and opposite each other; a bearing 16, depending from the lower face of the cover; an arm 17, having one endv pivoted in said bearing; a cheese-knife working through the slots in the post 20, the beam 2l, and the standard 7, and pivoted to said arm; an adjustable plate 23, working in the depression IOO 22, of the beam 2l, a circular slotted bar 24,

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