US818276A

US818276A - Paring device.

Info

Publication number: US818276A
Application number: US26122705A
Authority: US
Inventors: William A Mccormack
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1905-05-19
Filing date: 1905-05-19
Publication date: 1906-04-17
Anticipated expiration: 1923-04-17

Description

No. 818,276. PATENTED APR.17, 1906. W A. MGGORMAGK. PARING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 19, 1905.

'aawentoz WILLIAM A. MOOORMACK. OF BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS.

PARING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 17, 1906.

Application filed May 19, 1905. Serial No. 261,227.

To (ti/Z whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. McCon- MACK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bloomin ton, in the county of McLean and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Paring Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to an improvement in vegetable parers and slicers and is arranged for convenient ready use for the purpose designed.

The main object of the present invention resides in the production of a device of the character described having an operatingblade constructed of a single piece of mate rial arranged and adapted for the ready parjrig and slicing of vegetables, fruits, or the The preferred details of structure of my invention will be described in detail in the following specification, reference being had particularly to the drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of the im proved parer and slicer constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Referring to the drawings, wherein like numerals of reference designate like parts throughout both the views, my improved parer and slicer comprises a handle 1, to which is secured the operating-blade 2. The blade 2 is made of a single strip of material bent to provide a central web 3 and blades & and 5, projecting in opposite directions and in parallel planes from the respective side edges of the central Web 3. By preference the blade 4, which forms the slicing-blade, is of slightly less vertical dimension than the blade 5, which forms the paring-blade, and former terminates slightly in rear of the forward free edge of the central web 3, the blade 5 terminating coincidently with said end.

The Web 3 is provided with an elongated slot 6, slightly less in length than the len th of said web and including practically the ll width of the web. By this construction the edge of the blade 4. adjacent the web is free for the greater portion of its length, as clearly shown in the drawings, and this edge is sharpened, as at 7, to provide for slicing vegetables, as hereinafter described.

The blade 5 is formed adjacent the handle I with a narrow elongated slot 8, said slot being arranged longitudinally of the blade and about midway its height, being of a length to include a desirable paring width. The lower wall of this slot is sharpened, as at 9, to provide a paring edge.

The free end of the web and also the con tiguous end of the blade 5 are rounded, as at 10, and sharpened, providing an angular construction to serve in removing eyes from potatoes.

The central web 3 is terminally projected beyond the rear end of the blades 4 and 5 and serves as a medium for connecting the plate as a whole to the handle 1.

The construction described provides blades extending in opposite directions and in offset planes from a central web 3, preferably arranged transversely of the handle.

In use for paring the blade 5 is brought into contact with an article and passed therearound. The cutting edge 9 of the slot 8 serves to pare a thin layer from the article, which passes as it is severed through the slot to the rear of the blade 5. In using the deviceas a slicer the cutting ed e 7 of the blade 4 is brought into operation, slicing the material in layers equal in thickness to the width of the web 3. I It is obvious that the web 3 may be made of any desired, width whereby to limit the thickness of the slices cut in the use of the device and that, if preferred, the lower wall or cutting edge of the slot 8 may be slightly off set from the upper edge to provide for an increased thickness of paring.

It will be noted that the device as a whole is constructed of a single strip of material suitably bent and shaped and when constructed as described is efficient for paring and slicing vegetables, fruits, or the like.

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

1. A arer and slicer comprising a central web, and blades projected in parallel planes from the opposite edges of said web, said blades extending longitudinally of the web.

2. A parer and slicer comprising a paringblade, a slicing-blade extending in a plane parallel with the paring-blade, and a web extending longitudinally of the blades and arranged at a right angle thereto.

3. A parer and slicer comprising blades ar ranged in parallel offset planes, a web extending longitudinally of the blades and joining the opposite edges thereof, one of the blades being formed with an elongated slot havin one of its walls sharpened.

4. A parer and slicer comprising blades ar- IIO ranged in parallel and offset planes, a web oifset planes, a web extending longitudinally extending longitudinally of and joining said of and joining said blades, the free end of blades, and arranged at right angles thereto, said web and the adjacent end of one of the said web being cut away for a portion of its blades being sharpened.

5 length to free the edge of one of said blades, In testimony whereof I affix my signature 15 the other of said blades being formed with a in presence of two witnesses.

longitudinally-arranged slot having one Wall WILLIAM A. MOCORMACK. sharpened. l/Vitnesses 5. A parer and slicer comprising a paring- GEORGE F. JORDAN,

10 blade and a slicing-blade arranged in parallel JOSEPHINE L. MoOoRMAoK.