US802278A

US802278A - Expressing-press.

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Publication number: US802278A
Application number: US21478204A
Authority: US
Inventors: John S Frey
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1904-06-30
Filing date: 1904-06-30
Publication date: 1905-10-17
Anticipated expiration: 1922-10-17

Description

No. 802,278. PATENTED OCT. 17, 1905. J" S. FREY.

EXPRESSING PRESS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30, 1904.

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Patented Oct. 17, 1905.

Application filed June 30, 1904.. Serial No. 214,782.

To all whmrt it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN S. FREY, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Brooklyn, Kings county, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful 1m provementin Expressing-Presses, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to those portable expressing-presses known as kl-shaped potato-mashers and fruit presses or strainers; and it consistsin certain novel combinations of peeuliarly-constructed parts hereinafter set forth and claimed.

The leading object of the invention is to render the segmental or V-shaped cup readily removable for convenience in cleansing and to provide for readily replacing a cup with a new one or one having coarse perforations with one having finer perforations, or vice versa. The cup with coarse perforations is used for mashing potatoes and the cup with liner perforations for pressing and straining fruits for jam, jellies, etc.

Another object of the invention is to render all the parts of the improved press readily separable, so as to provide for the use of interchangeable parts.

A sheet of drawings accompanies this specification as part thereof.

Figures 1 and 2 are respectively a side view and a top view of the press wide open, the appearance of the closed press being also in dicated in Fig. 1 by the addition of "dotted lines. Fig. 3 represents a longitudinal section through the cup on a larger scale. Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the cup detached; and Fig. 5 is a perspective View of the follower and its brace detached, the latter being broken off.

Like reference letters and numbers refer to like parts in all the figures.

The principal parts of the improved press are a pair of lever-pieces A and B, terminating at one end in handles 1 and 2 and articulated at the other end by a removable transverse pintle 3, interacting with pairs of hinge-lugs 4: and 5 on the respective lever-pieces, a removable W-shaped cup 0, carried by the leverpiece A, and a follower D, connected at one extremity by a brace 6 with the lever-piece B and supported at its other extremity by said pintle 3. The main lever-piece A is further constructed with a rectangular frame 7 to surround the cup 0 when the latter is in position, as in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, and with a pair of stop-shoulders 8, Fig. 3, adjoining its hinge-lugs 1 to support the lever-piece B in its wide-open position, Figs. 1 and 2, so that the press as a whole may be held by the handle 1 of the lever-piece A.

The lever-piece B is constructed with a bifurcated inner end, forming the hinge-lugs 5, and with a hole in its stiffening-rib 9 to interact with a removable pin 10 for the removable attachment thereto'of the brace 6.

The cup (J, being preferably and conveniently of suitably-preforated sheet metal, has a wired upper edge 11, adapted to rest on said frame 7 of the lever-piece A and is so litted within said frame as to be movable back and forth to a limited extent. Preferably it is so movable endwise of the press, as shown, and is constructed with an embossed projection 12 on its front to interlock with the front bar of said frame 7 and with a spring 13, attached to its back to press against the rear bar of said frame 7 and to hold the cup in its locked position. When the press is wide open, as shown in Fig. 2 and in full lines in Fig. 1, the cup C can be pressed bodily backward, so as to free said projection 12 from the frame 7, and the cup can then be tilted out of the frame and removed, so as to facilitate thoroughly cleansing it or replacing it with a new or different cup, as required.

The follower D is preferably and conveniently made of sheet metal, also with flanges 1 1 at its lateral edges to stiffen it and with a sleeve 15 integral therewith to embrace the pintle 3, so that the latter shall support the follower all the way across the cup. In said wide-open condition of the press, Figs. 1 and 2, the pintle 3 and the pin 10 can readily be pulled out and all the parts of the press thus separated, and the parts of presses of a given size being made interchangeable with each other the press can readily be repaired at trifling expense when otherwise it would be necessary to throw it away as useless.

The follower-brace 6 in the construction shown in the drawings is made with lateral arms a and b, Fig. 5, rendering it T-shaped, and these arms are soldered fast to the extremity of the follower D, that is supported by this brace.

The brace 6 can obviously be otherwise at tached both to the lever-piece B and to the follower D. The locking projection 12 and the opposing spring 13 may be at opposite sides of the cup 0 instead of at its front and back, and other like modifications will suggest themselves to those skilled in-the art.

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Having thus described said improvement, I claim as my invention and desire to patent under this specification 1. A portable expressing-press having, in combination, a pair of lever-pieces connected with each other at one end by a hinge and provided with handles at the other end, one of said lever-pieces being constructed with a frame having side members parallel with each other, a removable segmental or V-shaped cup adapted to be embraced and supported by said frame, said cup having a limited backand-forth movement between said side members and provided with removal-preventing means adapted to interlock with said frame, means for keeping said cup and said frame interlocked with each other, and a follower carried by the other leverpiece and adapted to work within said cup.

2. In a portable expressing-press, the combination of a pair of lever-pieces connected with each other at one end by a hinge and provided with handles at the other end, one of said lever-pieces being constructed with a rectangular frame, a removable segmental or V-shaped cup adapted to be embraced and supported by said frame, said cup having a limited back-and-forth movement within said frame and constructed with a projection to interlock with one side of said frame, means for keeping said projection interlocked with the frame, and a follower carried by the other lever-piece and adapted to work within said cup.

3. In a portable expressing-press, the combination of a pair of lever-pieces connected with each other at one end by a hinge and provided with handles at the other end, one of said lever-pieces being constructed with a rectangular frame, a removable segmental or V-shaped cup adapted to be embraced and supported by said frame, said cup having a limited back-and-forth movement within said frame and constructed with a projection to interlock with one side of said frame, a spring at the opposite side of the frame operating to i keep said projection interlocked with the frame, and a follower carried by the other lever-piece and adapted to work within said cup.

4. In a portable expressing-press, the combination of a pair of lever-pieces connected with each other at one end by a hinge and provided with handles at the other end, one of 1 said lever-pieces being constructed with a rec.

lower carried by the other lever-piece and adapted to work within said cup.

5. In a portable expressing-press, the combination of a pair of lever-pieces connected with each other at one end by a hinge and provided with handles at the other end, one of said lever-pieces being constructed with a rectangular frame, a removable segmental or V- shaped cup adapted to be embraced and supported by said frame and having a projection on its front to interlock with the front bar of said frame, a retaining-spring attached to the back of said cup and arranged to press against the rear bar of said frame, and a follower carried by the'other lever-piece and adapted to work Within said cup.

6. In a portable expressing-press, the combination of a pair of lever-pieces connected with each other at one end by a hinge and provided with handles at the other end, one of said lever-pieces being constructed with a rectangular frame, a removablesegmental or V- shaped cup of perforated sheet metal adapted to be embraced by said frame having a wired upper edge to rest on said frame and provided with an embossed projection to interlock with one side of said frame, 'a spring at the opposite side of the frame operating to keep said projection interlocked with said frame, and a follower carried by the other lever-piece and adapted to work within said cup.

7. In a portable expressing-press, the combination of a pair of lever-pieces connected with each other at one end by a hinge and provided with handles at the other end, one of said lever-pieces being constructed with a rectangular frame, a removable segmental or V-shaped cup of perforated sheet metal adapted to be embraced by said frame, having a wired upper edge to rest on said frame, and provided with an embossed projection to interlock with one side of said frame, a retaining-spring attached to said cup and arranged to press against the opposite side of said frame, and a follower carried by the other leverpiece and adapted to work within said cup.

8. In a portable expressing-press, the combination with a pair of lever-pieces constructed with handles at one end and with hingelugs at the opposite end, of a removable pintle by which the same are articulated, a segmental or V-shaped cup removably attached to one of said lever-pieces, a follower removably attached to said pintle at one extremity, a brace attached to said follower at its other extremity, and means whereby said follower is removably attached to the other of said leverpieces substantially as hereinbefore specified.

JOHN S. FREY. WVitnesses:

ROBERT MoILwAINi'i, GUY W. SERDAN.

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