US838230A - Honeycomb-cutter. - Google Patents

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PATENTED DEC. 11, 1906.

w. J. YOUNG.

HONEYGOMB CUTTER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB 5 1906 -To all whom it may concern:

srarns PATEN OFFICE,

YOUNG, or UTUADO, PORTO Rico.

HONEYCOMB-CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 11, 1906.

Application filed February 5, 190a. Serial No. 299,665.

Be it known that I, WILLAMETTE JUAN YOUNG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Utuado, Island of Porto Rico, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Honeycomb-Gutters, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to a device particularly adapted for use in cutting honeycomb 1n shape for storing or packing in cans, jars, and other receptacles whereby it is put on the market for disposal to consumers, one of the objects being to provide a device of the character described that shall be simple and.

comparatively inexpensive in construction, durable, easy and effective in operation, and whereby comparatively small cakes of honey may be readily cut from large combs and transmitted to a receptacle adapted to receive them. i

The well-known method of marketing comb honey is by means of sections or boxes in which the comb is built and the honey stored; but for convenience in marketing the surplus stored in the body of the hive and by the removal of such surplus to increase the production it has been found that round or square cakes cut fromthe large combs and placed in glass jars or cans are desirable and easily marketed, hence the necessity for a device of the kind hereinafter described, illustrated, and finally claimed.

In the drawings acoom an fication and made a art ereof, 1 is a perspective view 0 my complete device. Fig. 2 is a vertical section, and Fig. 3 is a de ta' of the ejector.

1 designates a body portion having its lower edge sharpened to form a cuttingblade, said body being composed of tin or other suitable sheet metal, beveled, as shown at 2, to leave a sharp cutting-ed e designed for engagement with the materia to be cut. Mounted bn the cutter, which has aclosed top 3, is a frame or handle 4.

.5 designates a tube composed, preferably, of the same material as the handle 4 and the cutter 1. Withinthis tube is arranged a spiral or coil spring 6, the lower end of which rests on a'seat 7, formed by cutting away comb desired tobe cut and this specilower end and which enga es the honeycomb and serves to ush it i rom the cutter into a can, jar, or 0t er receptacle 10. The upper end of the ejector-rod 8 is enlarged, leaving a suitable shoulder 11, against which the upper end of'the spring 6 bears. This enlarged portion of said rod is provided with a groove 12, in which rests a laterally-projecting lug .13, formed by cuttin away a ortion of the upper end of the tu e 5,'said ug serving to retain the ejector-rod securely in position. For the purposes of convenience in handling I provide the upper end of the ejector-rod with a knob .14. y

In operation thecutter 1 is placed over the ressed down by means of thehandle 4. er the cutter has gone completely thro h the comb 1t 1s removed and the cake of frictionally retained in the cutter. The cutter is then placed over the can, jar, or other receptac honey, and the ejector 9 is forced downward against the cake thro h the medium of the rod 11, which bears agalnst the tension of they spring 6L As soon as the cake leaves the cutter 1 theejector rod is released and 1nstantly returned to its normal position through the tension of said spring.

Having thus described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, 1sl A device of the character-described comprising a body having a cutting edge around its open bottom, a-stationary handle-frame from and extending across the top of said ody, a centrally-disposed tube extending through and connecting the cross portion of said handle-frame and the top of sa1d body, said tube having in its lower portlon the 1ntegral guide and sto lugs 7 formed by cutting portions of said tu e and bending the same inwardly, said tube also having at its upper end the integral, inwardly-bent, de and stop lug 13, a plunger-rod slidab e m sa1d tube and rojecting out of the top thereof, said rod' aving its upper portion formed with a longitudinal groove to receive sa1d lug 13 for preventing rotary movement of said rod and limiting its slid' movement, the lower portion 0 said rod ei reduced to provide the shoulder 11 and to s 'de between said lugs 7, a plungeror ejector head remov-.

ably secured u on the lower reduced end of said rod and shdable in said body, a knob 01 oney out out is e adapted to receive the" 5 for holding said plunger or ejector normally handle upon the upper end of said rod, and a 5 In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my coil-spring in said tube surrounding the resignature in presence of two witnesses.

duced portion of said rod and-confined between the shoulder 11 thereon and said lugs 7 W WILLAMETTE JUAN YOUNG itnesses:

J. R. BUTERBAUGH, B. E. BUTERBAUGH.

in the top of said body, substantially as shown and for the purpose set forth.

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